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I’ve blogged about Will Wright (creator of Sim City and the Sims) before, discussing his new game Spore (see One videogame to rule them all?).

Besides being a great game designer Will is, as you would expect, an insightful thinker. Here is the text of a speech Will gave recently which describes many ideas of his on story telling and the mediums of movies and games: http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2007/03/sxsw_will_wrigh.html

It is one of most insightful discussions of the nature of storytelling in movies and games I’ve ever read. It definitely should be read by anyone who wants to better understand human behavior, particularly with respect to movie storytelling or game storytelling.

In early 2007 genius video game designer Will Wright (the guy behind SimCity and the Sims) is releasing his newest game, Spore. It’s for certain coming to the Xbox 360, and is being published by Electronic Arts. It allows you to play a single cell organism pac-man like game, then a multicell organism doom like game, then a tribe game, then a city scope simcity like game, then a civilization game, then an interplanetary civlization game. Each step along the way you get to decide how things should look or evolve, and your world can be populated by the creations of other players.

Don’t understand how that would work exactly?  Watch this video and be dazzled:

[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4776181634656145640 [/googlevideo]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4776181634656145640