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Will Wright Leaves EA/Maxis For Stupid Fun Club

Posted by timothy on from the requires-flash-10-for-shame-for-shame dept.

Dave Knott writes "Gamasutra reports that SimCity, Sims and Spore game creator Will Wright is leaving EA/Maxis. He will now be acting as head of Stupid Fun Club, an 'entertainment think tank' that he was previously funding out of his own pocket. From the article: 'The club has focused mainly on designing and building robots, as well as creating video productions based on them. Wright and EA will co-own Stupid Fun Club, which will focus on developing new cross-media IP for games, movies, TV and toys. EA has the right to develop game concepts that emerge from the think tank, and both the company and Wright have an equal stake.'"

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  1. Holy shit by Mozk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Holy shit that website is ugly! They use Comic Sans, for FSM's sake.

    I know that Will Wright is famous and that appearance isn't always everything, but who would do business with a company with an appearance like that?

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    1. Re:Holy shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I thought "Meh, just someone complaining" but this site is....really bad. The globe menu is silly, I didn't even realise it was a menu, the buttons spins around for too long so you can't read them and then when they stop they are still difficult to read due to the font and colour. The text is pink and has crusty pixels around the edges. The website itself has very little useful information what so ever and it lags when ever you do something. It looks like a website made in Flash by a High School student learning how to design websites.

  2. Re:Thank god by Hurricane78 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Already done. It's called Postal 2.

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  3. Re:Thank god by darkshadow · · Score: 3, Informative

    Already done as Conker's Bad Fur Day
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conker's_Bad_Fur_Day

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