Will Wright on the Making of the Sims - Kotaku Comments

Will Wright on the Making of the Sims

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:53:35 MST

@Ra_on_the_Moon: So fun to mess with SCURK and combine it with that game. That and busting out the Apache and becoming a one-chopper disaster, muahahaha.

I think we can safely say that while both Streets of SimCity and SimCopter were really bad and almost unplayable, they were way too much fun.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

Will Wright on the Making of the Sims

Ghede — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:30:22 MST

@Ra_on_the_Moon: Remember it. Played it. Loved it.

Fires were no match for my mighty hose! ... Speaking of which, remember the gay speedo-men controversy over that game? I wonder if my copy has that easter-egg...

Ghede

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Ra is on House — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:06:47 MST

Sim Tower was great, Sim Ant was hard, Sim City was the best but who remembers Sim Copter? That games graphics were stunning! at the time...

Ra is on House

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Peffse — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:29:22 MST

@Raziel3333: Wow, someone else remembers SimAnt? I loved that game!
Great... Now I want to get my old 286 out of the closet.

Peffse

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Erwin — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:59:33 MST

@baccardi84: Man, I wish I could've played that!
Move over Microsoft Train Simulator, you just got replaced!

Erwin

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baccardi84 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:44:20 MST

SimTower started off as an elevator algorithm sim.

baccardi84

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Slatz_Grobnik — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:01:48 MST

Some day, I will find the soundtrack for the Streets of Sim City, and I will be a happy person.

Slatz_Grobnik

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Ghede — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:34:57 MST

@devmas: I always enjoyed making a pheromone trail and swarming the spider with soldiers. MWAHAHAHA! Eight-legged monstrosity! You believe me to be weak, and you are right. But I can make smells! And those smells attract my fellow ants! You cannot kill us all and... why the hell did you just turn into green circles?

SimTower was also a favorite of mine. I still re-install it every now and again.

Ghede

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Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:55:29 MST

SimAnt... I could never figure out how to colonist new squares.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

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teraphony — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:07:01 MST

Yay SimAnt! It was the only game other than Mario Paint that I had that used my SNES mouse. I felt a certain sense of smugness every time I grabbed the mouse and that solid-plate mouse pad.

teraphony

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ludwigk — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:06:30 MST

When I worked at Maxis, I used to root through the EA/Maxis game locker from time to time. It was a sort of repository for borrowing games to try. They had all the Sim___ games, but most of the weird ones, like -Life, -Earth, -Farm were still in the box with the original shrinkwrap!

ludwigk

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Ashkihyena — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:47:38 MST

SimTower was great, but it was not easy, especially when you kept getting bomb threats, roaches and stuff, ugh.

Can't wait till the release of the Free Time expansion for TS2 though.

Ashkihyena

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Mikolai — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:45:45 MST

@blackadvent:
I think I heard SimTower was made by a Japanese programmer. A "part 2" was made with YootTower was out, Yoot being a part of the creator's name, Yoot Saito.

SimTower was fun, nonetheless, but the roaches...and OH MAN, trying to find the bombs on my 100 floor, stretched-to-the-edges building was a pain. x( Five Stars was a pain to maintain, too.

Mikolai

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J.A. — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:01:56 MST

SimEscort was great.

J.A.

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Devster — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:56:23 MST

SimFarm was a bit disinteresting though; so far as the "non-city, non-sims" offshoots go...

Devster

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Witzbold — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:49:52 MST

My friend made a tower shaped as a giant cock and left it on his pc for my other friend and I to find.

We were disturbed to say the least.

@KirbySS: You scare me if you think that game is easy. D:

Witzbold

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KirbySS — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:35:17 MST

SimTower was great. Easy, but oh-so-great.

KirbySS

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blackadvent — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:00:46 MST

I remember SimTower. That shit was bananas.

blackadvent

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devmas — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:53:42 MST

@Raziel3333: Sim Ant was amazing. Walking into electrical outlets was fun :)

As for Will Wright, it is funny how some of the most successful games and stuff came from people who were doubted. I remember hearing that Bill Gates wasn't taken too seriously because he looked young or something.

devmas

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Komrade_Kayce — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:51:34 MST

@Raziel3333:

Sim Ant discussion was like 20 comments in the Crysis-London-recreated thread.

Apparently a lot of us do. Remember it, that is.

Komrade_Kayce

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Morberis — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:44:17 MST

@Raziel3333:

Hey hey, that game was fun!

Morberis

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The Vampire Raziel — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:40:57 MST

who remembers Sim Ant?!

The Vampire Raziel

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Car2oon — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:38:20 MST

My peanut-butter based action simulator has hope!

Car2oon