Will Wright on the Future of Games | E3 Coliseum 2019 Panel

[@codydouglass]

This will be huge! Will Wright is a gift to us and every generation he has flipped the script and the best part is that EA can't get their greedy hands on it. Will hated being told what to do that's why he left Maxis and he lost his children SimCity, Sims and Spore to a bunch of fools who don't understand the core mechanics.

[@xxD3Vxx]

The Sims 1... played it since 2003, and I still do now. The music the gameplay. Nothing beats it.

[@AgeofReason]

I WAS SAYING THE SAME THING YESTERDAY PLAYING SIMS 1 ON GAMECUBE;. The music, the classy items to choose from, the classy styles offered; feels very 1950s wholesome in a way, and takes me back to playing it on PC in the old days!

[@AgeofReason]

Comment still relevant in 2021

[@mostlypixels2975]

Will Wright is brilliant.

[@timyu3473]

Will is the wright person for the job

[@mostlypixels2975]

@EXCALIBUR4040 EA will force him to ruin it with microtransactions.

[@ljj9494]

@EXCALIBUR4040 Lmao Maxis hasn't been a thing since 2015 dude

[@mustafasadmansakib]

juding by your profile picture you have a knack for recognizing geniuses it seems

[@betuna9487]

He is the Monty Oum of gaming

[@2GDV]

Bring the original idea of Spore back to life, pls

[@Dave_Albright]

and The Sims and SimCity

[@yma0evelyn]

Will Wright: "I don't follow the industry that closely" translates to "They aren't making anything intelligent and I don't care. The thing about Will Wright is that he is so interested in sciences and pulls information from the real world to make intricate and educational games. We need his mind in more videogames!

[@NightmareCourtPictures]

The industry needs his brain though. Cyberpunk being as bad as it was...jesus CHRIST they could have totally taken some clues from this guys work.

[@StuartLugsden]

I could sit and listen to Will Wright talk for hours.

[@StuartLugsden]

@EXCALIBUR4040 And the Sims.

[@eenayeah]

I'd like to think that Will Wright is one of the giants whose shoulders game developers can stand on. His contributions to gaming are just too massive.

[@Fawthr]

I think sims 4, Well ACTUALLY EA needs his him, after firing the whole crew when he left, they made a terrible mistake when he left, They need will wright it's so bad right now.

[@Rini_H]

EA obviously won't let him have creative freedom

[@satoronus1804]

Will Wright creating skynet... I knew it

[@cynthiaharris9635]

hahahahaha

[@TravyJsSpace]

WILL WRIGHT PLEASE SAVE THE SIMS!!!!!

[@KappKee]

It's so great to see him again.

[@ethanwatson3845]

Spore 2!!!

[@randomz5641]

WE STILL WANT THE SPORE THAT WAS ROBBED FROM US

[@randomz5641]

@@PondScummer Even now, we'd all love a new spore with everything going in it

[@Bolocosmico]

@@PondScummer Have you seen spore's DEMO?

[@claytondora]

Proxi sounds like a legitimately novel game concept, and very cool if pulled off right. My question for Mr. Wright is to what level of detail can we give our memories shape within the game? bad memories tend to stick with us longer and can be remembered more vividly than the good ones. Will we be able to input the traumatic experiences that shaped us, like the death of a loved one, or childhood abuse/neglect, as well as the brand-safe/fluffy experiences like going canoe'ing with a parent/spouse? Without the bitter memories, the sweet ones have no context.

[@teamproxi7510]

Hi! Proxi Team here! You can give a memory as much depth as you'd like and can enter any memories you want. This will be your private space to explore any experiences you value. Memories are represented as images, text, and 3D objects. All types of memories are valued and Proxi encourages exploring the full range of emotion in your memories.

[@claytondora]

@@teamproxi7510 Awesome. Thank you! Looking forward to launch later this year :)

[@hellz23456]

@@teamproxi7510 really really hype for it :D

[@leaholiver9418]

Can psychologist use a game like this in therapy?

[@internetdinosaur8810]

Will Wright should work on games with customizable characters like Spore

[@goony_man]

He’s designing Ready Player One! If you listen closely he’s telling you he’s making a game based off your past to change the outcome of your future. He’s creating the start button for a whole new world of games.

[@alicem3415]

I wish we still had these sort of innovators creating new concepts. Felt like things were going a million miles a second back then, now almost every popular game is essentially just a clone of games that have existed for 20 years. Lots of them are great games of course, but they're just not new games.

[@SpontaneousWeasel]

What a legend! And loved that he made reference to the awesome TNG season 5 episode 25 The Inner Light. I too feel that the potential of AI is there to help guide us and help us be better human beings (to one another!).

[@teamproxi7510]

We talk about this in the office often :-D

[@tyler_keeble]

I learned more from Will Wright in this one video than I did in some college courses I took.

[@ah-shar-ya2363]

I love the sims so much and adore Mr. Wright has bought it into my life but I have No idea what he is talking about. Someone, please translate.

[@u1yahen]

Hey, I’m sure that I’m late but you can turn on captions (CC) on the video! Just look up how to do it ❤️

[@volo7]

This was a great talk. Btw, take a drink every time you heard "you know"

[@StefanKirchberg]

jah!

[@Nazareadain]

Ok, it's an AI learning based associative (bias) connection engine? How do I even interface with this? it just sounds like I'll have a mindmap as the output, but the input is what exactly? Pictures? Texts? Questionnaires? Have it read my palm, horoscope AND crystal ball?

[@0-Seya-0]

Get back here and make a successor to Spore!!!

[@CheriMichaels734]

I can only play the Sims 2 base game on an old Windows 7 now. I MISS Will's special touch SO MUCH! How I wish he could take all the best of all the Sims/SimCity/Spore games and turn it into a MEGASims WORLD kind of game that can be played on ANY computer now, without all that DLing nonsense. But with all the ability to build your own CC right in the game with all kinds of creative tools. Please, please, please Will... let it be! I Miss my Sims 2 games sooo much now that I actually get tears when I can't play it, anymore.

[@amandalovesthesims2]

You can still play the sims 2 on Windows 10 - I do almost every day! Let me know if you want any help setting it up

[@bayl2329]

Hopefully Spore 2

[@JediMasterYoda66]

he doesn't have rights to spore anymore

[@bayl2329]

@@JediMasterYoda66 yes, though he doesn't need to use that exact ip entirely, though it could be heavily influenced in his own attention, (similar to his beta builds)

[@twiga2]

Yes

[@zarcarlaz637]

PLEASE COME BACK TO MAKING THE SIMS

[@steamraiderproductions6356]

My beautiful spores

[@Timyeahhh]

uploading your consciousness for self reflection as well as connect with similar people

[@USIntelligenceCollaborationAp]

use lucid dreams as a monitor to conquer grief when you wake in the morning and actucally relive memories. AR allows us to use lucid dreams as a monitor by using of sleep movements, breathing patterns, and snoring to interactively activate audibles to remind us of what to visualize. (lucid dream when you wake by focusing on visualizing moving your hands in your mind only when falling back to sleep then control anything you want to dream) Lucid dreams used as a monitor is the foundation for mind externalization. [and on a side note to get rid of a case of "reeses puffs" (aka memories) try shoveling (something ancient in it that drys them up real quick) you can use competitive sandcastle building as an excuse.]

[@manp112]

I cant wait to see the real thing sounds amazing

[@kirad]

flexing with the Off White Nikes

[@christiandarrall2869]

Simply inspirational!

[@stephen-torrence]

Star Trek TNG: "The Inner Light" Best. Episode. Ever. IIRC it won an Emmy. 👍

[@fanmaxis3004]

Damn Will Wright is getting old

[@mechamicro]

Yeah, if you has a chance to meet him. It is now or you will regret

[@logoncal3001]

he's 61

[@evielune]

Aren't we all? 💀😂

[@VITAS874]

​@@logoncal3001 time flies fast

[@peng9625]

I’m also called will Wright

[@saerain]

Bro's coming back to immanentize the noosphere

[@NolocoLawrence]

Is there more to Wright here or just the 23 minutes

[@shapleyattractor]

Right on Will!

[@A2goddess]

Man he's old years ago he was young now

[@phoenixzappa7366]

My head hurts

[@annahimmel]

congrats you made it to ygs lmao

[@Professor_Bugs]

If this man wanted founding and asked for money to make a sims competitor.............. The amount of money and investors that would be interested would be insane. But i guess he is sort of done with that stuff, the guy is smart. He probably knows this himself.

[@dramallama111]

Don't ever leave us Mr Wright! Games suck ass these days and we need a hero!

[@Erometal]

“You know”

[@princesspeach9860]

NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR MY PRESIDENT

[@mybluemars]

A.I. wants to know how you think.

[@josiasrodriguesdancer9702]

The sims :)

[@idk_who2320]

Will wright should join the paralives team

[@birkuru]

I think he's moved beyond life sim games

[@Jagerbomber]

It's kind of hard to feel like this next thing from Will will go anywhere, but partially along these lines, I've been wondering what Ken Levine's been up to. The last thing I knew, he was looking into the possibilities of procedural storytelling in games. But I think it's still going to be kind of primitively disappointing for a while. Oh, though I haven't played Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld or any of those yet myself. Idk.

[@lostuser1094]

Josh Russell Levine’s (according to his twitter) working on this procedural storytelling thing daily since 2014. I’ve a hunch we’ll start to see results around 2021.

[@shizyninjarocks]

Your best game was RAID ON BUNGLEING BAY!!!!!

[@City-Hunter]

Possibility Spaces! Heterotopias! Eternal Instants!

[@lorenzotaz]

is this the beginning of the matrix?

[@groboswe132]

What if you have a really dirty mind...? Asking for a friend... :P

[@itscyberqueen13]

I want this game so much because he sold The Sims and The Sims 4 sucks without Will. Btw, his explanation of Proxi makes me think if the show Westworld. Gimme gimme!

[@idrissalam1012]

William never make a game, he make something and player just build new game in that thing 😂 👍👍 🎉

[@smallbluemachine]

That’s cool, but don’t think I’m comfortable doing that.

[@martinjo3414]

spore 2 pleeeeeeeeeaaaase!

[@davidpike5959]

I love Will Wright, but this is still miles off how AI will apply to games. He's addressing a "Strong AI" which doesn't exist. Don't get drunk on this, he's a great designer but this is not how things will progress.

[@xRiversss]

Umm are you sure now ab that?

[@championsofodin9868]

Mf lost his mind 😂

[@terrym5786]

Terrible man.