Why The Sims is still so popular, 25 years later
Born from the mind of Will Wright—the same designer who bucked the industry ... Nobody wants to see that in a replica of actual real life the exact same way,” says Nawwaf Barakat, senior animation ...
Will Wright says the original Sims AI was actually too good: 'Almost anything the player did was worse than the Sims running on autopilot'
As part of the 25th anniversary of The Sims, the New York Times spoke to the original game's lead designer Will Wright, who ...
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The Sims Turned Players Into Gods. And Farmers. And Vampires. And Landlords.
Wright wondered: Could human intelligence be distributed in a similar way? Instead of pheromones, The Sims uses objects as behavioral markers (a hungry Sim might be automatically drawn to the fridge).
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Will Wright says the original Sims AI was actually too good: 'Almost anything the player did was worse than the Sims running on autopilot'
the autonomy was too good," Wright said. "Almost anything the player did was worse than the Sims running on autopilot." Maxis had to dial it back, and instead let each Sim choose randomly from a ...
The Sims design mastermind Will Wright says the first Sims ever made were "too good" at staying alive and needed to be stupider for the game to be fun
According to The Sims mastermind Will Wright, the original life sim had to be dumbed down as Sims' autonomy was simply "too ...