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TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake (slrpnk.net)

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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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (8 children)

This is awesome. He said indeed also that he had himself a lot of fun designing levels and places for video games, so he though making a video game out of the very process of designing a level would be cool.

A project from Will Wright that always fascinated me is SimAnt, a game from 1991 where you build an ant colony.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Building a world was quite novel back then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Subjectively at least - and this might be rose-tinted glasses influencing my judgment - it feels like it was more common, that certain genres were almost expected to come with an accessible level/map editor. I think I spent more time with the one from Age of Empires than the actual game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That level editor was awesome in AoE, especially when errr...the nukeboys came out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

All I'm saying is... BIGDADDY.

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