Will Wright says the original Sims AI was actually too good: 'Almost anything the player did was worse than the Sims running on autopilot'
Credit: Electronic Arts As part of the 25th anniversary of The Sims, the New York Times spoke to the original game's lead ...
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The Sims Turned Players Into Gods. And Farmers. And Vampires. And Landlords.
The influential video game allowed players to act like ... “A long time ago, I decided that game design is applied psychology,” Wright said. Even before The Sims was released, developers ...
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 ...
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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 ...
The Sims is 25 years old. So how did a game that started as a tiny spin-off become a cultural phenomenon?
Over the past 25 years, more than 500 million people have played the life-simulation video game series The Sims. So why did a ...