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Will Wright on Game Design

Posted by michael on from the sim-life dept.

Torill writes "Celia Pearce interviews Will Wright in the article "Sims, Battle Bots, Cellular Automata Gods and Go", in Game Studies, volume 2. Wright talks about the philosophy behind his games, one of which is The Sims: 'What are you trying to do with this thing that you're creating? To really put the player in the design role. And the actual world is reactive to their design.'"

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  1. FP ! by Balise42 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post :)

  2. Re:Llama dome by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    They should have made a Llama disaster!

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    That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
  3. Go on the 'net by flipflapflopflup · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Will - do you play on either KGS or IGS at all?

    Please don't mod offtopic

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