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Sims Designer Chris Trottier on Tuned Emergence and Design by Accretion
The Armchair Empire interviewed Chris Trottier, one of the designers of The Sims and The Sims Online. She touches on some important ideas, including "Tuned Emergence" and "Design by Accretion". Chris'...
View ArticleThe Future of Content - Will Wright's Spore Demo at GDC 3/11/2005
The Future of Content What I learned about content from the Sims. ...and why it's driven me to procedural methods. ...And what I now plan to do with them. Will Wright Game Developers Conference...
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Should the Government Treat Video Games like Alchohol and Tobacco?
USAToady wrote an article about the "Battle over violent video games heating up".First of all, to address the lame-assed attempt at a pun in the article title: I wish USAToady would just stop trying to...
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Deadly Plague Hits Warcraft World
Deadly plague hits Warcraft world!A deadly virtual plague has broken out in the online game World of Warcraft. Although limited to only a few of the game's servers the numbers of characters that have...
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SimFaux Interactive Network News Simulation
I've just uploaded the first version of the SimFaux Interactive Network News Simulation to the Huffington Post's Contagious Festival! It's pronounced "Sim Foe". Like the Colbert report: it's french,...
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Somebody asked me about SimFaux: This is pretty funny as it stands, but can it parody things Libs don't like to talk about like Dem politicos that flipflop every other speech, or Lib talking heads...
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Pie Menus for OLPC Sugar User Interface, in Python with GTK, Cairo and Pango...
Pie Menus on Python/GTK/Cairo for OLPC Sugar, by Don Hopkins.Python Source CodeTar File with Source, Demos and Icons.Demos of Pie Menus for OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Sugar User Interface on XO Laptop...
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The Soul of The Sims, by Will Wright
The Soul of The Sims, by Will Wright Macintosh HD:XmotiveHarness:src/Motive.c Tuesday, January 28, 1997 / 9:25 AM This is the prototype for the soul of The Sims, which Will Wright wrote on January 23,...
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SimCity for OLPC (One Laptop Per Child): Applying Papert's Ideas About...
Here are some ideas about applying Seymour Papert's philosophy of "Constructionist Education" to SimCity, by integrating it with the OLPC's "Sugar" user interface and Python-based scripting system....
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