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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 1 week ago (3 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] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Building a world was quite novel back then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 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 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

All I'm saying is... BIGDADDY.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Farcry and farcry 2 were my map editors of choice

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I remember finally getting my hands on the editor for the Build engine after a few years of making maps in Doom and Heretic and had thought 3D level design was only something super geniuses could do... Until Hammer showed it was just the garbage UI/UX of Build lol

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

Oh man I remember how incredible Hammer was.

I built my college campus! (And never showed anybody because this was during the Columbine era)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm glad that when I made my high school for Counter-Strike, it was back in 1.6 and not more recently. Heard about a kid who did the same for CSGO and he got expelled and I think he was arrested because they saw it like "terrorist planning" or some bullshit...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, apparently SimCity itself was the result of Will Wright working on an helicopter shoot'm up and realising he had fun making maps for it.

That's an interesting starting point for codifying a whole genre of games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sim ant was so awesome at the time, holy shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I lost entire weeks of my childhood playing at being an ant.

Now that I've typed that out, ~~bug~~ big chunks of my childhood suddenly make more sense.

Edit: dammit. I'm leaving that typo because it's perfect.