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Will Wright
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American video game designer and entrepreneur (born 1960)
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Will Wright, born William Ralph Wright on January 20, 1960, in Atlanta, is an American computer scientist, game designer, and voice actor. He has been employed by Electronic Arts and is recognized for notable works including *The Sims* and *Raid on Bungeling Bay*. Wright received a BAFTA Fellowship for his contributions to the industry. His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
Wright was educated at Louisiana State University, Louisiana Tech University, and The New School. He has resided in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Greenwich Village, and Manhattan. An atheist who speaks English, he is also listed as an author with eighteen works, including *Simant The Electronic Ant Colony* and *Cinder*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Creator
Known for
- How Videogames Changed the World — Self2013
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1953-12-21
- Active to
- 2020-05-10
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 607
- Total plays
- 3,169
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Will+Wright">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,286x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,699x
- Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
· 2013 · cited 10,909x
- Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,088x
- First‐Year
<i>Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</i>
(
<i>WMAP</i>
) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters
· 2003 · cited 9,251x
via Crossref · CC0
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.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 , divorced ) Anya Zavarzina
via Wikipedia infobox
Article · Português
William Ralph Wright (Atlanta, Geórgia, 20 de Janeiro de 1960), mais conhecido por Will Wright, é um designer de jogos americano e junto com o co-fundador da empresa de desenvolvimento de jogos Maxis, agora parte da Electronic Arts. Em abril de 2009, ele deixou a Eletronic Arts. O primeiro jogo que Wright fez foi o Raid on Bungeling Bay em 1984, mas foi o jogo de 1989 SimCity, produzido pela Maxis, que levou ele a ser conhecido. O maior sucesso de Wright veio a ser a série de jogos The Sims, que em 2008 veio a ser o jogo para PC mais vendido na história. Seu último trabalho, Spore, foi lançado em setembro de 2008. O jogo vendeu mais de 1 milhão de cópias em apenas três semanas após o lançamento.
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA