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Will Wright and The Sims

Wired has a feature about Will Wright, creator of The Sims entitled From Sims to Slammin' Steel. The article is quite informative, giving all those "behind-the-scene" details that many love to read about. Notably that the game was in development since 1993, and everyone was wishing it would be 'canned'.

The article also discusses Will's other creations, like SimCity and his less known battle bots. He's indeed entered a few robot war competitions, with interesting candidates each time (decorated with plants or doll heads!). Anyway, this is a much more interesting 'biographic' article than the one a few days ago on Mr Grand.

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Monday 04 February, 13:35
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Sims info

In case you care more about the Sims than about Will, you'll find the following lecture notes/presentation interesting:
http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/c95-gd/index.html

Note that most of the Sims info originates from Jamie Doornbos and/or Will Wright (Jamie presented these slides at the 2001 GDC).

William

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Friday 01 March, 18:32
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