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...founding father of this brave new world is an affable, bespectacled, 42-year-old polymath named Will Wright. In 1981, after five years of bouncing around three colleges without graduating, Wright decided to try his hand at writing a computer game. He called it Raid on Bungeling Bay. "It was basically a pretty stupid fly-around-in-a-helicopter-and-shoot-people game," he admits. The object was to fly over various islands and bomb them back to the Stone Age. But Wright became fascinated with these tiny islands. He found himself spending hours giving each one a detailed, working...
...time, the attraction was not readily apparent to many people. After Bungeling Bay, Wright cooked up a game he called SimCity, in which players took on the role of mayor of a complex, realistic miniature metropolis, complete with crime, garbage trucks, power plants and a temperamental populace. SimCity was a complex system that required constant, careful tweaking to keep it in equilibrium. This activity doesn't instantly register as "fun"--in fact, at first blush it sounds suspiciously similar to "work." When he showed it to publishers, they said, "But how do you win? There's no win-lose...
What they didn't get is that there are some games that you don't play to win. You just play to play. In fact, Wright's games don't end; they just keep going. Wright ended up starting his own company and publishing SimCity himself in 1989. It became an instant best seller, earning him some very real, nonsimulated cash...
Hannah E. Wright ’06, who was owed as much as $350 last month for her work as an intramural athletics referee, recently received much of her back pay and got a regular paycheck from the University on Friday—although she said she was paid at too low of an hourly rate...
...sure I have the correct amount...but we did get paid,” Wright said. “I think it’s nice that we’re starting to get paid on a regular schedule...mostly, it’s really reassuring...