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IGN Sims 3 Video Interview

Amy Tucker — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:51:14 +0000

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Another Spore Creature

Amy Tucker — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:36:38 +0000

Last one…I promise.

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I Played with the Spore Creature Creator and I Liked It

Amy Tucker — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:21:04 +0000

Can I talk about this now? I mean, it’s not a Sims event per se, but it is Will Wright related so I guess that counts.

I was asked to play with the new Creature Creator for Spore and enter into a contest to win $15,000 for my favorite charity.

The way the whole deal works is you go to SporeVote.com and view everyone’s creatures; there’s a short bio of everyone and a video of their creation.

Then, you vote on which creature you like best.

Simple as that.

I’m not sure when Avery will be up on the site but hopefully it won’t be too long.

You can download the Creature Creator on the 17th though there are “leaked” copies out there if you do some looking around.

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The Game that Almost Wasn’t

Amy Tucker — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:55:14 +0000

Did you know that The Sims was almost NOT made?

According to Will Wright, in his interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Sims “was referred to as “The Toilet game”. It was the game where you clean the toilet. We had a product review meeting at Maxis where we had to decide whether we’d publish this thing or not…and the executive said “No, let’s do [something else]”.”

Apparently Wright was one of the few people who realized just how great The Sims could be and because of that was one of the few who went to bat for the game.

Though Sims tested poorly with some age groups [14 year old boys] it’s main fan base is women – a whopping 60 %. And those women have bought The Sims and its various offshoots like it’s going out of style – snatching up somewhere around 90 million copies of the simulation game.

Since its “toilet game” start, The Sims has spawned 7 expansions as well as Sims 2, with its five expansions. [and counting]

I’m sure those kinds of numbers make Wright very, very happy that he fought for such an unlikely game.

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