Game Design with Will Wright

15 minutes in and I’m engrossed as though I were watching one of my favorite shows. The only thing that pulled me out of it? Stupid phone. Is there a dvd I can buy? This is just awesome.

hehe my name is will wright for real i looked up my name and this came up

@moonuchan Wait for the next big thing out of the Stupid Fun Club?

We can do continue what our expectation for Sim City 4.

UMM

@larylilshit1 WRONG UNI = OUT OF DATE GAME TRAINING

sad that will left EA and Maxis..Now what do we do????

No but I bet it was definetly an inspiration for making SIM games, which let you build more elaborate “Working” models

People here seem to be emphasising the tech part a bit too much. As Will claimed, games are part tech and part psychology. To quote Gabe Newell: “An artist who can model, or a programmer who can write, or act, will to better in the games industry than a tech geek. Miyamoto for example, hates computers. He liked to play music, go out into the woods, and fantasise about meeting fairy-creatures, all of which inspired Zelda. So read books and paint. Listen to the Ron Gilbert interview on gamespot.

Do you think he got his spore creature creator inspired on the pinball creator?

thanks man

Depending on the area of game design you want to work in, further maths and physics will be a big help

id suggest I.T and then go college and do a computer course there such as software development and then get your diploma etc and go to university and apply for game design (what im doing anyways)

wow, amazing, superb, you name it! I am not planing to work with games or IT at all, but the concepts and models discussed here are just sublime to be familiar with. Now I need some time to process this mass of knowledge Will Wright is certainly AAA+++ expert in his area.

hey im 14 yrs old
i just want to know wat things should i study in school im a freak with games
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thanks,

Try Blitzmax it’ll give you a good introduction to programming games, it’s a nice language to use and your finished game will be almost as fast as if it were created in C/C++ and more importantly start with small games working your way up to more difficult types of games, blackjack.tetris etc and remember always plan your game in a notebook before you even write your first piece of code

i think it’s not realistic enough, i tried something more fresh, i’m playing already recently this one –> floprk. com/download

he seems a lot better than his looks

U could start with the free program GameMaker (Try to google it)… That’s the program I started with when I was your age.

the text in the paint window said Dusara Program
Meaning another program
it was in Urdu the national language of National Republic of Pakistan

Dude. For reals, best thing you can do is get TurboPASCAL (for free online) and learn it. You won’t start at an FPS, just cause it’s so complex, you’ll finish half a room and give up. I started programming when I was 8. Start with the most basic, and as you learn more, do more things with your games. Don’t start big and crazy.

ie. Start with a text-based RPG. If you don’t know what that is, google it, there’s tons of good examples. Good luck brother! Stay motivated!

Thank you for te info dude very help full one more thing im 12 years old and i want to design a game i tryed sim city its was fun then it got boring. where should i start to design a game?? for first person shooter. P.S the vid siad RUM be hind you.

its a hard road to be a game designer,you have to be either a programmer,QA,or artist for 3 or 4 years in the industry before you even have a chance.

3 designers or so per mid sized company = very competitve.

I loved that pinball construction game…

SimCity is one of my favorite games ever. Where is SimCity 5?

will wright looks better now a days.