Unreal has to be an engine for everyone who wants to build a major game. — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
Whenever there is somebody at Epic who is capable of doing something better than me, I let them at it. — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
We need to avoid going down a path where we might find the doors slamming shut behind us. — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
We want a direct relationship with our customers. To build a business and sell products to them. — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
The awesome thing about 'Fortnite' is it's brought a huge volume of digital commerce to Epic. — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
The great thing about VR is that the input is going to be so drastically better than mouse input or games with… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10 as the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer PC ecosystem and… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
Asian online games are far ahead of Western games in terms of business model, but the Western games do have a real… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
We are a game developer ourselves, and we built everything we need for our games. We share everything we built, including our… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
I can imagine an automotive designer or an industrial designer building a product in 3D, all in real-time. That's the way a… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
When we're building tools, we respect developers' complete creative freedom. It can be used for the development for anything that's legal. — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
Fortnite, because of its visual style, it's widely acceptable to just about everyone. It's open up to a much wider audience than… — Tim Sweeney Audience Copy Share Image
Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place… — Tim Sweeney Generation Copy Share Image
Do you remember the first three years of Steam? People absolutely hated that Valve forced you to launch their game through what… — Tim Sweeney Game Copy Share Image
The thing that excites me most technologically is the ability to use VR not just for games and displaying our content, but… — Tim Sweeney Ability Copy Share Image
Once you have an augmented reality display, you don't need any other form of display. Your smart phone does not need a… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
I think it's necessary for VR to start with an early adopter audience that's highly engaged, and I think that means gamers.… — Tim Sweeney Computers Copy Share Image
If you look at why people are paid to do things, it's because they're creating a good or delivering a service that's… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
That's the great things about games as social experiences. You play with all your friends across social groups. You see young girls… — Tim Sweeney Friendship Copy Share Image
While Hollywood's computer graphics quality is world-class, their production pipelines are a mess of non-standard tools and labor-intensive processes driven by the… — Tim Sweeney Computer graphics Copy Share Image
We're trying to make our software available to users in as economically efficient a way as possible. That means distributing the software… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
In many ways 'Fortnite' is like a social network. People are just in the game with strangers; they're playing with friends and… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
We're not just limited by technology but by our ideas and our experimentation and how quickly we can try things. — Tim Sweeney Experimentation Copy Share Image
Epic has prided itself on providing software directly to customers ever since I started mailing floppy disks in 1991. — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
I have immense respect for Unity because they played a key role in establishing this indie revolution, empowering a huge number of… — Tim Sweeney Game Copy Share Image
My experience with Epic is handing off more and more power to the point where I can just sit back and look… — Tim Sweeney Epic Copy Share Image
It turns out having a fast car is an excellent hobby when you're a workaholic because even when you don't have any… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
When lots of stores compete, the result is a combination of better prices for you, better deals for developers, and more investment… — Tim Sweeney Happiness Copy Share Image
Games like 'Fortnite' are way more fun to play with your real-world friends, and they're so accessible that anybody can play. — Tim Sweeney Friends Copy Share Image
I was really worried about the Windows RT project and these other efforts where Microsoft was creating versions of Windows that would… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
It'd be awesome if you could see an actual player's faces projected onto an in-game character in a multiplayer game. Imagine how… — Tim Sweeney Awesome Copy Share Image
'Fortnite' has, I think, the most positive gamer community that's ever emerged from a game at this scale. I think it's partly… — Tim Sweeney Community Copy Share Image
AR is going to play such an infinite role in our lives that we have to establish clear ground rules respecting everyone's… — Tim Sweeney Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
All signs point to there being many virtual and augmented reality competitors, and not just a single, dominant company. — Tim Sweeney Being Copy Share Image
We feel the game industry is changing in some major ways. 'Fortnite' is a harbinger of things to come. It's a massive… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
With Epic MegaGrants, we're reinvesting in all areas of the Unreal Engine development community and also committing to accelerate the open sourcing… — Tim Sweeney Community Copy Share Image
I understand the concept of advertising. It makes sense. Companies want to reach customers with information about their products. It's a completely… — Tim Sweeney Advertising Copy Share Image
We all remember the tech bubble of the late '90s, but companies like Amazon survived. Wherever there's strong, enduring value, it can… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
As soon as a critical mass of people in the world gained access to devices with high-end graphics and Internet connectivity, the… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
