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Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
License
Pilots
Used
Wells
Pilot
Yes
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Everybody has a different definition of the good side.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Definitions
Different
Sides
Definition
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I typically go overboard when I research new projects.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
New Projects
Overboard
Projects
Research
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On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Vacation
Totally
Laptop
Unplug
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No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Games
Narcissism
Player
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Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.
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Different
Games
Video
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Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Creation
Developers
Entertaining
Fans
Creations
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The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Power
Doe
Games
New Generation
Consoles
Generation
Pc
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Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Designer
Games
Player
Designers
Discovered
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I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Embedded
Forget
Kind
Refreshing
Deeply
Unplug
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It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Coworker
Neighbor
People
Vicinity
Coworkers
Neighbors
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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Complexity
Fascinated
Ideas
Simplicity
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For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Diverse
Option
Experiences
Important Question
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The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Hardcore
Ninety
Player
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I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Games
Reality
Thinking
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And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Hunting
Now And Then
People
Treasure
Hunt
Interpret
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There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Issues
Reasons
Various Reasons
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Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Time
Benefits
Feels
Huge
Long
Long Time
Thinking
Time Freedom Long
Biggest
Camera
Freedom Time Long
Resisted
Stretch
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I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Bugs
Kind
Software
Tests
Complexities
Fully
Introduced
Purposely
Result
Test
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We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Space
Time
Considering
Games
Time Space Good
Area
Time Good Space
Space Time Good
Quite A Bit
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The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Clicks
Concerns
Motivations
Smoothly
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Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Change
Games
Perception
Play
Change Family World
Tends
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The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Add
Core
Expansion
Invading
Packs
Dynamic
Explore
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A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Cities
Dynamics
Human Behavior
Interesting
Issues
Elaborate
Ethnic
Model
Occur
Require
Socio-Economic
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The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Advantage
Console
Games
Generations
Machines
New Generation
Temporary
Performance
Pc
Price
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In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Community
Members
Online
People
Real
Skins
Website
Status
Visited
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It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Games
Glasses
Reality
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Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Xbox
Games
Generations
Wii
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Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment they offer players the opportunity to explore, be creative, learn through interaction and express themselves to others. It is vitally important that we protect and nurture this new art form so that it can reach its full potential. Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them.
Will Wright / Video Game Designer
Art
Opportunity
Player
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