"I was watching one of your talks earlier this week and you said something that essentially in game design the most compelling experiences are made out of gaps but then in another talk you said games o..."

"given my skeptical position that I've already established about immersion and simulation as being sort of the ultimate goal of games VR you know the the rhetoric around VR has a lot of emphasis on tha..."

"and I assume this was inspired by Nick Bostrom's book yeah okay and maybe maybe you should explain it from people haven't played okay so in universal paper clips you play as an AI yeah that makes pape..."

"only thing I care about yeah but people who don't play games at all it just like kind of glazed over look right and so how do you communicate that I mean even to it you know you have an 18 year old co..."

"I yeah not so much not so much yeah it is weird competitive games are strange in that way because you can yeah they just there big mountain and you can have a lot of fun just scrambling around in the ..."

"as a designer right our games that can be expressive in this way yeah um I actually think that there's an element of this in all games I think yeah I I do okay I I think I mean if he and if you self-r..."

"about like the game history 101 yeah like that that makes sense in terms of like setting up a foundation yeah well yeah it is kind of a ridiculous thing to it's crazy what would make games I don't kno..."

"we're doing is is trying to explore yeah what what is I mean taste is very much at the heart of what we do I think to be a successful game designer you need you need inspiration you need hard work and..."

"culture you know like online communities have been kind of infamous do you address that in your curriculum yeah yeah we do we actually we try to we have a lot of sort of games Studies classes that we'..."

"market stands right now because as far as I've seen like that's usually where more of the risky stuff comes from yeah right yeah and we were talking about this earlier but you know like maybe there wa..."

"past few years that you've just like because it hasn't been vr right like we've heard all about that they like certain things like man I didn't even see I mean you're kind of on the bleeding edge it s..."

"outright so Benedict Fritz asked Frank you seem much more interested in chess go poker and other games of the long history than most other game designers where do you think that comes from I think it'..."

"you know dota will be bigger than the NFL by multiple I would probably take the under on that okay yeah even though as much as I love eSports um I'm also like you know I you know I like everybody I pr..."

"invent a sport you can invent games and sometimes games evolved into sports okay but it's very hard I think to invent a sport like because I think what a sport is is when a game acquires a scale there..."

"lot of internal R&D by Google which people didn't see because it was ingress this game that not a lot of people were playing a game that probably would not have was probably not making enough money to..."

"it's um yeah it's it's very hard to predict things in general it's particularly hard to predict entertainment yeah as part of the job of art and entertainment is to be unpredictable right part of the ..."

"games for people to play to like cut their tails and kind of like maybe dive deep into something that they might not have heard before um well you should definitely play universal paper clips that goe..."

"so and I think what that person was referring to was tantos expanding headband which is the name of the musical group that did the song that i used in universal favor class and so the story behind tha..."