alt Hacker NewsI'm glad to collect any questions for Will Wright and post his replies!
He's especially obsessed with cornering you at a party and telling you all about Care Bears.
The Adorable Will Wright Minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7G6c097oWU
Speaking of single minutes of short attention span theatre, here are a couple of one minute robot movies we made:
Servitude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXsUetUzXlg
Empathy:
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Was the game Ökolopoly an influence on him? It was a 'cybernetic environment game (kybernetik unweltspiel)' from West Germany where players run a country and strive to hold off economic, social and ecological collapse. It was released as a board game (beautiful, if I may so so, owning a copy) in the early 1980s and then the true, apparently fully realised DOS videogame followed later. It always seemed like a simple Sim City to me.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96kolopoly
https://archive.org/details/oekolopoly_202509
Further question, how much did he read about cyberneticş beyond Gaia Theory? Was he influenced by Norbert Wiener?
I'll toss ya a few!
What unexplored frontiers does he wish game developers would pay more attention to?
How does he feel about the state of science education for children today in terms of schooling, television, toys, internet, and so forth?
What are his thoughts on the effects of current AI trends on culture and education?
What games, if any, has he been playing lately?