Eric Barone

1987– · American video game developer, designer, composer and musician (born 1987)

Topics: creativity, learning, life, engineering leadership

• There’s a balance you have to have between being very critical of yourself and your work while also maintaining a strong faith in your own ability. Your unique voice and perspective matter and if you can find a way to bring that out then you will create something special.

  — Eric Barone

• Making art, making video games, is my way of sharing who I am with the world. My goal, deep down, is that I want to connect with the rest of humanity, and maybe have them connect with me in some way.

  — Eric Barone

• I want to create a collection of games during my career, so that when I’m on my deathbed I can look back and see that I created all these wonderful things that brought people joy.

  — Eric Barone

• You should be free to work yourself to the bone, but not to force someone else to do that for you.

  — Eric Barone

• I just persevered and forced myself to learn. You realize the thing that you thought was good actually isn’t. You realize why and you improve on it. And that’s just an endless cycle.

  — Eric Barone

• I've always been obsessed with creating stuff, I spent my spare time doodling, making music, writing... basically all the different aspects of making a game. I just didn't know at the time that I would find a way to combine all those things to bring a cohesive vision to life.

  — Eric Barone