According to the book A Beautiful Mind, John Nash ( one of the game's inventors ) advocated 14 × 14 as the optimal size.

According to producer Hiroshi Iuchi, the main inspiration for the game's design was Image Fight, an arcade game by Irem from 1988.

According to GameRankings, the game's average review score was 73 %.

According to STI director Roger Hector, Michael Jackson was initially brought in during development to compose music for the game, even though no mention of his involvement was included in any of the game's credits.

According to the game's back story, the " Source " of all life deep inside the planet created the first forms of life, who called themselves the Xan.

According to the game's manual, it took a liking to the place and took up residence.

According to the game's background, the Tremere are one of the youngest vampire clans, having just come into existence during the Dark Ages.

According to series creator Ron Gilbert, Schafer and fellow writer-programmer Dave Grossman were responsible for about two thirds of the game's dialogue.

According to the game's backstory, the Union Aerospace Corporation ( UAC ) has grown to become the largest corporate entity in existence, and has set up a research facility on Mars.

According to translator Ted Woolsey, a large portion of the game's script was cut out in the English localization due to space limitations and a lack of sequential text.

According to Tiller, however, Payback eventually fell apart because of disagreements over the game's style between the development team and " a particularly influential person " within the management division.

According to the game's fictional history, archeologists found an entrance to a vast underground cavern in the 1980s near a volcano in New Mexico.

According to the game's fiction many historical figures were secretly Templars, manipulating history and those around them in a quest for power.

According to Williams, " the first item on the agenda was coming through the game's twenty year collection of monsters, and deciding which ones were going into the book ...

According to a commentary by the game's planner, Muneki Ebinuma, the game was planned to feature more elaborate stage designs than the ones in the finished version of the game.

According to the game's back-story, The Kingdom of Ehb is a border kingdom in the continent of Aranna, next to the Plain of Tears.

According to the game's rules, the two prime directives for Toon players to follow are " Forget Everything You Know " and " Act Before You Think ".

According to Heiner Gillmeister, a European language expert of Bonn University, " cricket " derives from the Middle Dutch met de ( krik ket ) sen ( i. e., " with the stick chase "), which also suggests a Dutch connection in the game's origin.

According to the game's storyline, the Netherworld, the world of the dead is a realm that can only be accessed from one place in the world, the sea-side village of Doolin.

According to Nite, the game's writing style owes itself to a humorous email exchange between himself and Johnson that began when the two separated after high school.

According to the game's website, " Talislanta is released to the world, for free, under the Creative Common license.

According to the game's instruction manual, the player controls the biblical figure Moses as he leads the Israelites to the promised land, meaning he goes through a labyrinth.

According to the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nintendo provided half of the game's ¥ 500 million budget.

According to Hawks, a new set was in need of quickly being built when the studios set designer was unavailable and Hawks volunteered to do the job himself, much to Fairbank's satisfaction.

According to Space Quest 6 designer Josh Mandel, the SQVII designers were forbidden from using story elements from the original Space Quest games or from even playing the games.

According to the radio designer, intelligible speech can be detected 12dB above the receiver's noise floor ( noise and distortion ).

According to flag designer Spring Davis, the blue represents the town and the University of North Carolina ( whose colors are Carolina blue and white ); the green represents " environmental awareness "; and the " townscape " in the inverted chevron represents " a sense of home, friends, and community.

According to Chris Taylor, lead designer of Supreme Commander, he said, " first attempt at visualizing RTSs in a fresh and interesting new way was my realizing that although we call this genre ' Real-Time Strategy ,' it should have been called ' Real-Time Tactics ' with a dash of strategy thrown in.

According to Nick Tredennick, a microprocessor designer and expert witness to the Boone / Hyatt patent case:

According to lead designer Chris Avellone, Planescape: Torment was inspired by books, comics, and games, including Archie Comics, The Chronicles of Amber, The Elementals and Shadowrun.

According to the film's conceptual designer Brian Froud, Labyrinth was first discussed between himself and director Jim Henson during a limousine ride on the way back from a special screening of their 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal.

According to some sources ( such as archivist and biographer Dr. Susan Hood ) he was the actual designer of the flag ; others ( such as Tom McCarthy, president of the Genealogical Society of Ireland ) suggest a more peripheral role.

( According to the DVD commentary, the women were supposed to be topless, but costume designer James Acheson stated that fake, uniformly-sized breasts would be funnier than the disparately-sized natural breasts of the dancers, and the women would be more at ease wearing the topless costumes.

According to Fashion designer Swapnil Shinde, the Indian fashion scene is just about exploring the show-off navel for the ramp.

According to designer Walter Mahy, the original design for the Mouth of Sauron's costume had the helmet hooked directly into the mouth, pulling it permanently open.

According to designer Jan Wilsgaard, the Amazon's styling was inspired by a Kaiser automobile he saw at the Gothenburg harbour.

According to set designer Robin Wagner, as interviewed for the book Set Design, by author Lynn Pecktal, the original Bennett version was to be a " multimedia " show, with an elaborate tilting floor, banks of television monitors, and other technological touches.

According to the Doom 3 manual, GUI designer Patrick Duffy wrote over 500, 000 lines of script code, and generated more than 25, 000 image files to create all of the graphical interfaces, computer screens, and displays throughout Doom 3.

According to the designer, the model wore a pubic wig to make her appear more natural.

According to former coach Robert Vicot, the crest, although claimed by Daniel Hechter, was instead been invented by amateur coach and professional designer Mr. Vallot.

" According to Jake Solomon, the lead designer of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, MicroProse did few new things with the sequel " except made it brutally harder and made the cruise ships four times longer than any human could realistically make ," yet still the game " was awesome.

According to The Stratocaster Chronicles ( a book by Tom Wheeler ; Hal Leonard Pub., Milwaukee, WI ; 2004, p. 108 ), Mr. Randall assembled what Mr. Fender's original partner Doc Kauffman called “ a sales distributorship like nobody had ever seen in the world .” Randall worked closely with the immensely talented photographer / designer Bob Perine.

According to designer Keiko Iju, the game was inspired by the then-popular Rambo films and takes its name from the Japanese title of Rambo: First Blood Part II ( Rambo: Ikari no Dasshutsu or " The Furious Escape ").

According to Simon Lamarre, chief studio designer, " the 1800ES has become one of the icons for Volvo ," inspiring the design of the Volvo C30.

According to designer Francis Millet, " The head of Lincoln was selected because it is the only thing which can be used on the medal without offense to the sentiment now happily prevailing over the whole country in regard to the Civil War, and the portrait of Lincoln must be acceptable to everybody, particularly when accompanied by the noble phrase which so tersely and accurately expresses his attitude during the war.

According to the designer, a CipherSaber version in the QBASIC programming language takes just sixteen lines of code.

According to a WWE Magazine article in 2009 by WWE's production designer Jason Robinson, who co-designed the structure, several designs for the Elimination Chamber were considered.