Will Wright

Also known as William Ralph Wright, William R. Wright, William Ralph, Jr. Wright

American video game designer and entrepreneur (born 1960)

Person · Open Library

Works: 18

Top works

Simant The Electronic Ant Colony
In the Trenches
Salt for the Journey: (Humor, Tragedy, Acts of Bravery)
Without a Tear: (Kindly Tales for Open Hearts)
Cinder

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Film & TV

Creator

Known for

How Videogames Changed the World — Self2013

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1953-12-21
Active to: 2020-05-10

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Discography

Minha História
My First Time Around1968
I Love the Way You Love1972
Hard to Stop1973
Danger High Voltage1974
Explosion!1976
This Time for Real1977
Betty Travelin’ in the Wright Circle1979
Betty Wright1981
Wright Back at You1983

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 607
Total plays: 3,169

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,929x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,439x
Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
· 2013 · cited 10,757x
Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,039x
First‐Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters
· 2003 · cited 9,194x

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Quotes

“Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.”
“It almost feels like a zombie at this point; it's the walking dead. It's such an abrupt end to what was E3, which had been this huge escalating arms race....Right now we're in this kind of dicey, do we have an event, what event is it, which one do we go to? I think we're in an uncomfortable transition zone when really the real E3 died a couple of years ago."”
“In a movie, one can always pull back and condemn the character or the artist when they cross certain social boundaries. But in playing a game, we choose what happens to the characters. In the right circumstances, we can be encouraged to examine our own values by seeing how we behave within virtual space.”

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Key facts

Born: William Ralph Wright , ( 1960-01-20 ) January 20, 1960 (age 66) , Atlanta , Georgia , U.S.
Alma mater: Louisiana State University Louisiana Tech University The New School
Occupation: Game designer
Known for: SimCity The Sims Spore
Spouses: Joell Jones ( married"}]]}'>m. 1984 , divorced ) Anya Zavarzina

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Commons category: Will Wright
date of birth: 1960-01-20
birth name: William Ralph Wright
name in native language: Will Wright

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William Ralph Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, which later became part of Electronic Arts. In April 2009, he left EA to run Stupid Fun Club Camp, an entertainment think tank in which Wright and EA are principal shareholders.

The first computer game Wright designed was Raid on Bungeling Bay in 1984, but it was SimCity that brought him to prominence. The game was published by Maxis, which Wright co-formed with Jeff Braun. Wright continued to innovate on the game's central theme of simulation with numerous other titles including SimEarth and SimAnt.