Will Wright Quotes

"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."

"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."

"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me."

"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."

"It's gotten to the point now where I surf the fan sites everyday and download cool things the fans have created, which is really ironic in a way!"

"We're experimenting with new ideas we can put into it, which makes it hard for me to say exactly when we will be done with them."

"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."

"I think by exploring the bad side you're really just mapping the envelope of the system... you're getting a sense of how far off you can go."

"The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does."

"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."

"Everybody has a different definition of the good side."

"We really want to have most of the failure in a game be based on things that the player did, as opposed to things outside of the player's control."

"I typically go overboard when I research new projects."

"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."

"In some sense that fear of not dropping the ball can really hurt you, in terms of not stretching and kind of going off in interesting new directions."

"Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!"

"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."

"For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media."

"And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity."

"It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity."