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Daily Archives: February 20th, 2008

1997 code snippet of The Sims “motivation”

20-Feb-08

This is the prototype for the soul of The Sims, which Will Wright wrote on January 23, 1997.
I had just started working at the Maxis Core Technology Group on “Project X” aka “Dollhouse”, and Will Wright brought this code in one morning, to demonstrate his design for the motives, feedback loop and failure conditions [...]