Yahtzee Croshaw

1983– · British video game journalist and author (born 1983)

Topics: creativity, learning, software engineering, engineering leadership

• Games with ragdoll death animations just make it look even more ridiculous. One moment an enemy is strafing and firing at full speed, the next his entire body just goes limp like Mr. Scotty teleported his skeleton out of his body or something. (19 July 2007)

  — Yahtzee Croshaw

• Games should be remembered, not remastered.

  — Yahtzee Croshaw

• Saying that a smoker inhales over 4000 chemicals is as meaningful as saying that fun runners pass over 4000 different kinds of rock, and because that rock may contain dinosaur fossils, said fun runners are at risk of velociraptor attack. (21 March 2007)

  — Yahtzee Croshaw

• What was your favourite single player Quake level? One of the forty identical greenish-brown castles or one of the forty identical brownish-green castles? (2 December 2004)

  — Yahtzee Croshaw

• Developers usually know their game's flaws better than anyone. Deadlines and publisher meddling are why they don't get fixed. (4 February 2010)

  — Yahtzee Croshaw

• But the cruellest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't. (23 March 2008)

  — Yahtzee Croshaw