Comments on: Lunch With Will Wright http://www.notesongamedev.net/resource/breaking-in/lunch-with-will-wright/ Notes on Game Dev is a collaborative blog with primarily game art and design topics from professional game industry members, educators, and writers. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:37:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Beth A. Dillon http://www.notesongamedev.net/resource/breaking-in/lunch-with-will-wright/comment-page-1/#comment-1462 Beth A. Dillon Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:42:15 +0000 http://www.notesongamedev.net/breaking-in/lunch-with-will-wright/#comment-1462 That's so funny! He did talk a lot about ants, and how one of the key aspects of a good game is if you can get people to be just as fascinated with a topic as you are. It's about sparking imagination from the box alone, then from the marketing on the box, all the way through game play. If you can keep someone's imagination going, you'll have a successful game. With SimAnts, he started off interested in how one ant alone is stupid, but a colony has the intelligence of a dog, all because of how they work together as a system. I love hearing him talk, since he's brilliant and absolutely nerdy about any topic he gets into for designing a game. That’s so funny! He did talk a lot about ants, and how one of the key aspects of a good game is if you can get people to be just as fascinated with a topic as you are. It’s about sparking imagination from the box alone, then from the marketing on the box, all the way through game play. If you can keep someone’s imagination going, you’ll have a successful game.

With SimAnts, he started off interested in how one ant alone is stupid, but a colony has the intelligence of a dog, all because of how they work together as a system. I love hearing him talk, since he’s brilliant and absolutely nerdy about any topic he gets into for designing a game.

]]> By: ronnoc http://www.notesongamedev.net/resource/breaking-in/lunch-with-will-wright/comment-page-1/#comment-1460 ronnoc Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:52:22 +0000 http://www.notesongamedev.net/breaking-in/lunch-with-will-wright/#comment-1460 "the guy behind SimCity, The Sims, and Spore" Why doesn't anyone ever say SimAnt? “the guy behind SimCity, The Sims, and Spore”

Why doesn’t anyone ever say SimAnt?

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