Game designer Will Wright, known for The Sims, revealed Proxi, a new game that uses player memories to create personalized 3D worlds. Players input memories, which are transformed into animated scenes and added to their 'mind world.' Wright discussed the development of Proxi and the influence of The Sims on his latest project.
Will Wright , the designer of The Sims and co-founder of Maxis, appeared on Twitch today to talk about his next game, Proxi , a gaming and streaming initiative that raises money for type 1 diabetes research. Wright revealed more about Proxi as well as discussing the development of The Sims series. In Proxi , you type in a memory (for example, a trip you took with a college buddy) and the game turns that memory into an animated scene.
As you create more memory scenes they're added to your 'mind world,' a 3D environment you can explore and play games in. The people who are part of your memories (like that college buddy you told Proxi about) will populate the world as 'proxies' that you can interact and play games with. 'I don't remember when I first thought of it,' Wright said on the stream. 'I think it's more like an idea that was percolating for a long time. Obviously it has a lot of relationship to The Sims.' Played The Sims 2 on the stream, the character of Mortimer Goth got frightened by the ghost of Victor Goth (Mortimer's dead relative) after visiting the graveyard. Using the memories panel, the hosts could see that Mortimer retained that memory, along with other important events and milestones from his life. Wright explained why he wanted Proxi to be a more personal experience by using the real memories of its players. 'I found myself getting continuously closer and closer to the player,' Wright said. 'Kind of a saying I've lived by, which is that no game designer has ever gone wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.' As the hosts laughed, Wright explained further: 'It goes to figure that the more I can make a game about you, the more you'll like it,' he said, chuckling. Wright said all this rather playfully, but look, he's not wrong: I've created versions of myself in just about any game that will let me, including every one of Wright's The Sims games
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