I’m currently reading the book “Game On!” About video game history, and had to verify.

When initially designing The Sims, Wright spent a great deal of time researching the fan community of the hugely successful Quake and Quake 2. “I was amazed at the time people were pouring into making their own custom levels,” he told Wired. “So with The Sims, we wanted to make it possible to modify everything. Players could use it as a storytelling platform.”

https://www.shortlist.com/news/15-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-sims-4

  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Me: I wonder what Will Wright is up to these days?

    Wikipedia:

    At GalaVerse on December 11, 2021, Wright announced a new project, in partnership with Gala Games, called VoxVerse. Wright said VoxVerse will be a blockchain game, where players will be able to create areas to explore and interact with and share these with other players of the game, incentivizing creators through the ability to trade or sell their works as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using cryptocurrency. Wright stated that the use of blockchain and NFTs are mechanisms needed to support the vision he has, but has no interest in selling NFTs directly to players as other blockchain games or NFT schemes have had done in the past.

    Me: oh.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      once got interviewed by a guy who used to be lead dev on the classic F1 games (pre EA) and nowadays he just runs a team that makes horse racing simulations for casinos.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
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      2 days ago

      😭

      If I had a nickel for every time a 90s-2000s developer is now into Blockchain…

      Do I have two nickels or three?