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Llama Drama Podcast | EA Creator Network | Simming Since 2000s!
Since 2015, Will Wright β the legendary video game designer behind 'The Sims' and 'SimCity' β has been consumed by a new obsession: how our ever-shifting library of memories forges the self. In his mind, each personal memory from your life is like a snow globe, a world inside a world. But that world could be connected to countless others in conscious and unconscious ways. He wanted to create a game in which a player could tinker with that unending maze of inner microverses, logging their significant memories for an AI to analyze and then mapping their own psyche the way they had mapped digital metropolises in βSimCity.β It would be called βProxi: Yesterday's You Tomorrow.β The concept was part computerized LEGO set, part RPG, part Enneagram, part transhumanist mind-uploading fantasy, part reboot of Borges and Proust for the LLM age. It would be, in some ways, Wright's most personal video game yet.
Fast forward to October 2024 β after spending ten years, a million dollars of Wright's own money, and a few million from investors; after theyβd already started building out the gameβs universe β the game was (and still is) nowhere close to being finished.
Eric Boodman spent time with Wright and his βProxiβ crew to find out when β or if β one of the most celebrated video-game designers ever's next (and even wilder) act will come to life: https://t.co/lzcdbID5uW
I dug out my original copy of The Sims 1 and installed it on a real Windows 98 PC π
No mods or expansions. Exactly as it launched in 2000!
New video is LIVE! https://t.co/j1xNGqXKHt
I dug out my original copy of The Sims 1 and installed it on a real Windows 98 PC π
No mods or expansions. Exactly as it launched in 2000!
New video is LIVE! https://t.co/j1xNGqXKHt
@Mikael_Kacz@RetroTechDreams@Sims_Nostalgia Aw thanks! Glad you enjoyed the watch! Hope to make some similar things with older Sims titles & some other retro things I've accumulated :)
I dug out my original copy of The Sims 1 and installed it on a real Windows 98 PC π
No mods or expansions. Exactly as it launched in 2000!
New video is LIVE! https://t.co/j1xNGqXKHt
i wont lie i am still quite happy with this video i made for The Sims' 16th anniversary (10 years ago!!) ft SimGuruRachel doing a dance party π #iykyk https://t.co/GbX99zny2l
β¨ BeyondSims has a brand new look! Inspired by classic Sims titles, we've given the site a total makeover with the early 2000s Maxis charm π
Go check it out at https://t.co/KWRLHVOphV and let us know what you think!
@RoyalMail Posted a letter with Royal Mail Signed For (estimated 1-3 working days) on Wednesday last week. It has still not updated showing a delivery has been attempted. Who can help with this please? It's an important letter that I want to ensure is not lost in transit?
Remember when @TheSims 3 Collectors Edition launched in 2009? Let's take a look at this edition of the game including the iconic plumbob USB! #ts3#sims3
Video retrospective: https://t.co/dcz0SwgFBQ
Remember when @TheSims 3 Collectors Edition launched in 2009? Let's take a look at this edition of the game including the iconic plumbob USB! #ts3#sims3
Video retrospective: https://t.co/dcz0SwgFBQ