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The Sims designer Will Wright is making his next life sim more personal by building it with your actual memories: 'No game designer has ever gone wrong by overestimating the ...
Will Wright, the designer of The Sims and co-founder of Maxis, appeared on Twitch today to talk about his next game, Proxi, which is "an AI life sim built from your memories" according to this ...
Will Wright says the original Sims AI was actually too good: 'Almost anything the player did was worse than the Sims running on autopilot'
"In early versions of the game, the autonomy was too good," Wright said. "Almost anything the player did was worse than the ...
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The Sims designer Will Wright says a 'Britney Spears-level' pop star loved her 'mundane' life in The Sims: 'It is so boring, it's wonderful'
Wright explained why he was building his next life sim using the real memories of the people playing it, and shared some of his memories about the iconic simulation games he made at Maxis.
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First Neighborhood on Mars
Will Wright has had to think a lot about how societies evolve. More recently, the 52-year-old co-founder of Maxis has taken the concept to the next level with Spore, which lets video gamers direct ...