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Will Wright's Deal with Fox?
Syris writes ""Will Wright, creator of video game sensation "The Sims," has signed a first-look development deal with Fox Broadcasting Co." The story is here ." A surprisingly interesting story.
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"Who Wants to Marry a Simulated Millionare?" 30 women vie for the affection of a digital man who may or may have a million dollars, or 5 neighbors walled up in the bathroom.
-"Nice jacket, who shot the couch?."
Why do I imagine little, digital Simpsons characters running around making icons at each other, and seeing who gets kicked off the server each episode? =]
.f00Dave
Wright has been toying with traditional linear entertainment during the past year
I think he should stop playing and move to spherical entertainment immediately !
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
"It could be a sitcom or something completely different"
A SimsCom ?
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
He want to create a show on FOX that shows the relationship of men and machines??
One word...
BENDER!
Don't mod me, bro'!!!!
(husband and wife, in living room)
Husband: Blah!
Wife: Blah??
Husband: Blah!!!!
Wife: BLAH???!?
Husband: (moves towards kitchen)
Wife: (Walks towards bathroom)
Husband: (throws trash on floor, plays with stove)
Husband: (sets self on fire)
Wife: (takes shower)
Enter Neighbor.
Neighbor: (to wife) Blah!
Wife: Blah!
Huband: (dead on floor, burned crispy)
Wife leaves, go gets a job.
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Wright also experimented with a life-sized remote-controlled robot as a concept for a reality TV show.
I hope he didn't forget to carry the one.
Lets hope it's something like Big Brother, except it's entirely up to the viewers to furnish, entertain, and otherwise screw with them.
I'm voting for no doors on the bathrooms, and too many pets.
*rimshot*
Alright it wasn't that easy to resist making a joke, but really, I'm sure he could drum up a decent show, anyone see any of the "MY Robot"? Its unclear whether they are just in development or are available somewhere. The only skepticism I have is that there is such severe CRAP on TV now anyway, why would FOX of all networks signup something truly against whats "hot" right now? (ie. Joe-masked-millionaire-secret-anna-osbournes-frien ds-season-82-F-list-celebrity-hoedown)
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
"Will Right looks like a child molester?"
Not spent alot of time with any recently, why? Is there some distingishing features we should be on the lookout for?!
With endless reruns on Discovery.
Pale skin, oddly shaped nose, multi-million dollar record contract, dangling a baby off a balcony...
In today's episode, the main character will sit on the toilet for 25 minutes, eventhough most males stand while peeing. He will also not lower his pants.
However, the character will be pixelized and require an unofficial set top box to see completely.
Kind of a bummer to return home from a long day at work to have to send myself back to work in the game. Wheeeeee! Then there was having to tell people to go to the bathroom, take the trash out, and so on.
Reminded me of Age of Empires, when I'd have to keep telling hundreds of farmers that, yes, as farmers they must replant their corn every year.
A surprisingly interesting story.
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As opposed to the usual crap we see posted on
- Geek builds beowolf cluster out of basmati rice
- Matrix sequel to include wire-fu shark jumping
- Richard Stallman shaves self, Darl McBride
- Mutant Mosquitos
Who comes up with this stuff? Geez.
GF.
Lots of petrified grits
"We...are...watching...FOX"
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
New show on FOX. Laugh at the wild antics of the Daddy character, the housewife and the 2.5 children. All drawn in a generic color scheme so they can be anybody. They live in a town with the most common town name in America.
"D'Oh"
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Gaming's a huge entertainment industry. It's no surprise TV would want to see if they can tie into it. We've already had our (iffy) movie or three based on game franchises, and throwaway FPS games tied to a handful of middling "grown-up" series as promotional moves, leaving alone countless kids' show tie-ins.
Hard to say whether the great, leveling, lowest-common-denominator of TV will make this marginal even for Fox's viewer base, though. Seems more like an mst3k niche market to me. Or will Wright go more mainstream to get a bigger audience? Even the projects he's done already basically mix genres a bit and come out with a sitcom or a "reality" show/candid camera hybrid. (A sitcom in feudal japan with "suburban issues"? Watching people interact with a robot? Not exactly brand new material, whether or not he uses puppets.)
But more importantly,
Just how big are robots in real life, before you make them "life-sized"?
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
Is this going to be something like the TV audience and vote or command the characters (robots) on TV to do something and interact with the other robots?
I wonder how many votes there will be for 'kiss', 'undress', or 'have sex', etc. Or maybe more intrestingly, if the audience can send in their own ideas, 'stare at thumb', 'chew on lamp cord', or 'say "All your base are belong to us" 54 times'.
Whatever...
Don't tell me the Sims now want to direct ...
--- Jason Olshefsky
Karma: Poser (mostly affected by adding this line long after everyone else did)
"The original show concept blended puppetry with animation and was set in feudal Japan but dealt with modern-day suburban situations."
Man, I'd love to have been a fly on the wall in that pitch meeting.
Exec 1 - 'I dunno about this feudal Japan idea. and... puppets?'
Exec 2 - 'You know, our research shows, most Fox viewers live in suburbs - we need something more suburban'
Exec 1 - 'You're right. We need an angle.'
Exec 2 - 'Can we deal with modern suburban issues in a feudal Japanese setting?'
Producer (steam coming out of ears) - 'I guess so, if it means you'll commission the show'
Exec 1 - 'I feel a daytime Emmy coming on...'
Exec 2 - 'High Five!'
Sometimes, I wonder why the entire planet hasn't already been sucked into the bottomless void between TV executives' ears.
Excuse me, but what's interesting in this story? A guy, who happens to have some interesting ideas and likes to play with toys shifts his interests from games to (other forms of) entertainment. He came to know someone from a TV network and had an idea of a TV show. His friend from the network says "Cute, let's try it" and off they go.
It's nice to see people evolve, but it shouldn't be a sensation that someone doesn't want to develop/design/whatever computer games all his life. Not the kind of stories I expect /. to bring me.
I think he should stop playing and move to spherical entertainment immediately !
Spheres = Balls
Playing = Playing
That concludes your 3 week course about playing with balls
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Why is it surprising that this story is interesting? :)
Mad Hatter
A surprisingly interesting story.
An interesting story on slashdot! Now, that is suprising!
This isn't any ordinary darkness. It's advanced darkness.
Ever wonder what's going on when you've turned your game off???
Now you can find out! These Sims get really wild with each other! You know that hot neighbour your one sim keeps trying to get with? Find out what happens when she hooks up with that other hot neighbour two houses down! It's incredible!!!
And New this week!! -- Sims: Doggy Style!
See what happens when we give Snoop Doggy Dog a camera and girls to play with! You'll be amazed at what he can get these sims to do!
Caution: May not be suitable for sims under the age of 18.
mad props to the guy in the star wars discussion
This is my digital signature. 10011011001
The Sims maker has a deal with FOX? It's an interesting story? How is anyone supposed to post their uninformed, off the cuff, ms bashing, Open Source supporting, In Soviet Russia, You Inconsiderate, Beowulf cluster of these responses to just the headlines when you post stories like this. Please stick to the formula. ;)
No wonder this story only has about 60 posts.
Strange. I've heard that `Lew Morton' is a fake name which writers use to sign material which is so bad that they don't want to take credit for it.
BH
Fools! They laughed at me at the Sorbonne...!
"This deal's not about taking a game and turning it into a TV show; it's about creating new entertainment franchises." Fox Exec
Do people in Hollywood really talk like this?
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Here! (do a select-all to see the white on white text).
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
No Will! You don't know of the powers that you're messing with. Mixing robots and humans in a television show resulted in the worst sitcom that man has ever created: Small Wonder! Run for your lives!
I can just imagine all the inside Star Trek jokes and Linux references on his new show.
Who says he's typecast as Wesley Crusher? Go Wil!
You know what that means. 5 episodes and you'll never see it again.
Only if it's any good.
If it sucks, it'll be on forever.
It seems to me that Will Wright have a secret Fetisch for Robots. Every other meaning he speaks ends with "... with robots!". And talk about being short of ideas... They're actually thinking of stuff like SimCity the Sitcom? How boring would that be on a scale from one to ten?
What's so bad about being lazy? What if there was a war and nobody showed up?
I remember how people went wild about Lemmings where I worked, a totally original game with excellent gameplay. Given a choice of a game of that originality, but with so-so graphics, and another Sims add-on, I know which I'd choose.
He could create a whole lot of fake characters to simulate the news, inventing fake but entertaining stories. Of course that would put the existing Fox News team out of a job, but I bet Sim's come a whole lot cheaper.
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