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It looks like Will Wright might be going from manipulating tiny fake people to manipulating normal-sized real ones. VentureBeat's got news of Hivemind, Wright's experimental foray into what he's calling personal gaming. As he describes it, the engines and/or algorithms that power Hivemind will learn and track events in your life and morph the game experience accordingly: More »
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I've seen some cool business cards in my time—I remember that at my first GDC, I practically had a Patrick Bateman-style existential crisis over how inferior my own cards were at the time. More »
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Despite the fact they only appeared in one game (Sim City 2000), arcologies remain an iconic symbol of the Sim City series. But just what the hell are they? More »
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If you've ever seen Will Wright, the big brain behind games like The Sims, Spore and SimCity, deliver one of his humorous, hypnotizing talks, you're probably going to want to settle in and watch this one too. If you've never had the good fortune to be assaulted by Will Wright's smarts, well, you're in luck. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5794202&view=rss&microfeed=true According to Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims, etc.), his new company, Stupid Fun Club, doesn't seem to be recognized by the E3 game expo. Wright tweets, "So apparently the E3 folks decided my new company (The Stupid Fun Club) isn't in the electronic entertainment industry...." Wright says E3 is refusing to let his art director attend, adding, "I guess thats what we get for having a fun (and stupid) name." [via @StupidFunWill] More »
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I respect Will Wright. He is one of the first game developers to really be a "game designer," helping form the foundation of what I do for a living today. The games he contributed to were really formative to me, especially SimCity, which I actually used as a class project in middle school, doing a paper on efficient city planning. I have had the opportunity to meet Will Wright at GDC a few times, even sharing a smoke with him. One cool dude. More »
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Will Wright: Game designer, Montessori adherent, Robot Wars Champion... YouTube Curator? More »
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The Sims creator Will Wright plunges into the world of television with a new 30-minute episodic series called Bar Karma, a fueled by the creative power of its audience. More »
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A new video game show and online magazine announced today offers a look into the minds of the video game industry. More »
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Morgan Freeman's "Through the Wormhole" show on the Science Channel had an interesting guest a few weeks back: Sims creator Will Wright, who was there to talk about video game games, and gods. More »
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Earlier this year, Will Wright spoke to a gathering of military and Department of Defense personnel about the intersection of commercial gaming and military gaming at Gametech 2010. More »
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Emails sent by famed designer Will Wright's Stupid Fun Club are now inviting members to participate in his experimental television project, which will engage viewers in the creation of the show's storylines. More »
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Will Wright, creator of The Sims and SimCity, hasn't worked on a video game since 2008's Spore. What's he been keeping busy with in the meantime? How about making a TV show. More »
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From the moment I broke Mario through the ceiling of Super Mario Bros. World 1-2 to bypass the next few levels of that game, I've assumed that an essential part of playing video games is being subversive. More »
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Will Wright popped up on the last talk of the last day of the Game Developers Conference to deliver a classic Wright mind-blowing talk on, well, everything. More »
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Speaking to a packed house at the conclusion of the Game Developers Conference this weekend, famed game developer Will Wright told the crowd he plays a Nintendo game everyone morning to kick off his day. More »
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I ran into Will Wright yesterday just before the Game Developer Choice Awards kicked off. He was wearing a shiny suit and grabbing a drink. More »
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Will Wright, the fast-talking, rocket-loving man behind The Sims, took to the stage at last night's Game Developers Choice Awards to present John Carmack, the fast-talking, rocket-loving man behind Doom, with a lifetime achievement award. Guess what he talked about? More »
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Last week, Will Wright was talking in New York City and saying brainy things. Among them was an idea I'd never considered before, that people will play the virtual reality that is a video game before they physically play it. More »
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Will Wright was on a recon mission on Tuesday in New York City. On a snowy day on Manhattan's West Side, one of history's top game developers was at his first Toy Fair, his wheels turning. More »
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One hundred million copies sold, 36 magazine covers and 100 game critic awards: The Sims franchise continues to thrive ten years after its launch, basking in the uncommon flattery of having no real competition. More »
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Talking to VentureBeat about, fittingly, his new venture, Will Wright made it clear how he relates to the gaming industry these days — and provided clues as to what he will do next to entertain us. More »
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The IndieCade International Festival of Independent Games kicks off in Culver City, California tomorrow, October 1, a four day blowout of events, exhibitions and keynotes that highlight the best of independent games. You should go! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5371200&view=rss&microfeed=true The Chronicle of Higher Education sat down recently with Will Wright to talk to him about the value of educational games. Not only did they get some great money quotes, they got some great money business cards! More »
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The only thing tougher than coming up with visionary video game ideas? Putting together a team to see your vision to fruition. Here's how gaming legend Will Wright does it. More »
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Mega Man is a man among robots, but is he spiffy enough to top a French robot built in 1810 that writes poetry for a spot in the Robot Hall of Fame? More »
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Listen up, fools! ZootFly and Mr. T have formed a licensing A-Team, announcing that the developer will create a series of games "packed with the trademark over-the-top adrenaline-pumping action of Mr. T." Don't do drugs! More »
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For such a big game, you'd have thought Spore would release on every platform under the sun. But it didn't. Just PC, Mac, DS and iPhone. Here, Will Wright explains why. More »
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Will Wright, the man who launched a million sims, is broadening his horizons. More »
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Will Wright may be leaving Maxis and Electronic Arts, but that doesn't mean he's leaving gaming. In fact some of his biggest ideas are for future games, he told us today. More »
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Maybe the website for Will Wright's entertainment think tank is just a website. But given that it has three games of sorts hidden on it, I'd like to think there's more to it than that. More »
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The designer behind The Sims and Spore has left Electronic Arts, the publisher announced today, starting a new "think tank" known as Stupid Fun Club, a venture that has EA's backing. More »
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By: Brian Crecente More »
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A small group of journalists and developers were invited to sit in an informal lunch discussion with some of the biggest names in the gaming industry today. More »
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Rolling Stone magazine have taken a little side-trip away from rock n' roll, and done a more Time magazine-like list of the "100 People Who Are Changing America". Four (well, five) are developers. More »
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EA has officially announced several new titles, two for the DS and one for the Wii, and an expansion to the Spore lineup that will launch this year. More »
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The BBC lined up a panel of gaming dignitaries to mull over the best of 2008 and expectations for 2009, they tapped into gaming culture with the help of Peter Molyneux, Will Wright, and... Fatal1ty? More »
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The latest issue of the Escapist deals with god games, most of which are quite grand in scale. John Carr, however, looks at the micro god game — in this case, SimAnt, Will Wright's first foray into games decidedly small in scale — and declares its inspiration (childhood games of playing god with hapless insect) the 'original god game.' SimAnt is certainly one of the weirder little titles in Wright's repertoire, but certainly an important title when looking at later games: More »
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An article in Science magazine discussing why Spore flunks various kinds of science after close scrutiny by a variety of scientists reminds me of history buffs that get hysterical when a movie is historically inaccurate. While a couple of them had a few nice things to say, Spore in general got poor marks in organismic and evolutionary biology, squeaked by with barely sufficient grades in cultural anthropology, physics, and astrobiology, and was reasonably highly rated in sociology and galaxy structuring. But they're not just trying to grouse, really: More »
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SCE President Kaz Hirai recently addressed the importance of games on the PS3. This must have been great news to Spore creator Will Wright. I recently spoke to Wright at an event held in Midtown Manhattan. Of the handful of questions I asked, I wanted to know what he thought of LittleBigPlanet, since he's interested in user-created content and all. His answer was a bit surprising. More »
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