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The Sims design mastermind Will Wright says the first Sims ever made were "too good" at staying alive and needed to be stupider for the game to be fun
According to The Sims mastermind Will Wright, the original life sim had to be dumbed down as Sims' autonomy was simply "too good" to be enjoyable. Speaking in a recent interview with The New York ...
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Will Wright says the original Sims AI was actually too good: 'Almost anything the player did was worse than the Sims running on autopilot'
As part of the 25th anniversary of The Sims, the New York Times spoke to the original game's lead designer Will Wright, who gave some insight into how its AI was programmed. Part of the ...
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The Sims designer Will Wright is making his next life sim more personal by building it with your actual memories: 'No game designer has ever gone wrong by overestimating the ...
Will Wright, the designer of The Sims and co-founder of Maxis, appeared on Twitch today to talk about his next game, Proxi, which is "an AI life sim built from your memories" according to this ...
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A history of The Sims on Nintendo consoles, and why we don’t have any on Switch
As The Sims celebrates its 25th birthday, we take a look at a cornerstone of the franchise that disappeared, just as Bella ...
Sims: 25th anniversary - from The Sims to The Sims 4 - a brief history
The Sims is celebrating its 25th in 2025! But how did it become one of the world's best-selling games? We've been finding ...
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How The Sims grew from a virtual construction game into a cultural phenomenon
"Will Wright actually lost his home in the Oakland ... It was around this time when EA changed the concept from Dollhouse to The Sims. The Sims spent nearly a decade in development, ultimately ...