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Will Wright is a Actor American born on 20 january 1960 at Atlanta (USA)

Will Wright

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Birth name William Ralph Wright
Nationality USA
Birth 20 january 1960 (64 years) at Atlanta (USA)

William Ralph "Will" Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the former game development company Maxis, and then part of Electronic Arts (EA). 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 released by Maxis, a company Wright formed with Jeff Braun, and he built upon the game's theme of computer simulation with numerous other titles including SimEarth and SimAnt.

Wright's greatest success to date comes from being the original designer for The Sims. The game spawned multiple sequels like The Sims 2, The Sims 3, and The Sims 4 and expansions packs, and Wright has earned many awards for his work. His latest work, Spore, was released in September 2008 and features gameplay based upon the model of evolution and scientific advancement. The game sold 406,000 copies within three weeks of its release.

Biography

In 1980, along with co-driver and race organizer Rick Doherty, Wright participated in the U.S. Express, a cross-country race that was the successor to The Cannonball Run. Wright and Doherty drove a specially outfitted Mazda RX-7 from Brooklyn, New York to Santa Monica, California in 33:39, winning the illegal race. Wright only competed once in the race, which continued until 1983. Wright had a daughter, Cassidy, in 1986, which motivated him greatly over the next five years to hone his craft.





I'm uncollecting. I buy collections on ebay, and I disperse them out to people again. I have to be like an entropic force to collectors, otherwise all of this stuff will get sorted.





Since 2003, in his spare time, Wright has collected leftovers from the Soviet space program, "including a 100-pound hatch from a space shuttle, a seat from a Soyuz... control panels from the Mir", and the control console of the Soyuz 23, as well as dolls, dice, and fossils. During E3 2004 he passed off an old lapel pin commemorating the Soviet space program to a reporter.

He once built competitive robots for BattleBots with his daughter, but no longer does so. As of November 2006, Wright still had remnant bits of machined metal left over from his BattleBots days strewn about the garage of his home. Wright was a former Robot Wars champion in the Berkeley-based robotics workshop, the Stupid Fun Club. One of Wright's bots, designed with the help of Wright's daughter, Cassidy, "Kitty Puff Puff", fought against its opponents by sticking a roll of gauze onto its armature and circling around them, encapsulating them and denying them movement. The technique, "cocooning", was eventually banned.

Following his work in BattleBots, he has taken steps into the field of human-robot interactions.





We build these robots and we take them down to Berkeley and study the interactions that people have with the robots," says Wright. "We built this newer one that has a rapid-fire pingpong cannon. It will fire about 10 per second. So we give people this plastic bat and we say, 'It's set up to play baseball. Do you want to play baseball? It's going to shoot a little ball and you try to hit it.' And all of a sudden it's like da-da-da-da, and it's pelting them with balls.





Wright currently lives in Oakland, California with his wife, Anya, and their three sons.




Gameography

Raid on Bungeling Bay (1984)
SimCity (1989)
SimEarth (1990)
SimAnt (1991)
SimLife (1992)
SimCity 2000 (1993)
SimFarm (1993)
SimCopter (1996)
The Sims (2000)
SimGolf (2002)
The Sims Online (2002)
The Sims 2 (2004)
Spore Creature Creator (2008)
Spore (2008)

References


Further reading
Cifaldi, Frank (May 20, 2005). "E3 Report: The Path to Creating AAA Games". Gamasutra.
"Lifetime Achievement". PC Magazine. December 22, 2004.
Huck, James; Remo, Chris (June 9, 2008). "Will Wright – Video Games Close To 'Cambrian Explosion' Of Possibilities". Gamasutra.
Lobo, Chris; Schooler, Larry (October 2004). "Playing With Urban Life: How Simcity Influences Planning Culture". Archived from the original on December 11, 2004.
Remo, Chris (November 16, 2005). "Will Wright Feature Interview". Shacknews. Archived from the original on October 17, 2006.
Wright, Will (April 2006). "Dream Machines". Wired.
"Will Wright: Celebrate Failure (Interview At NY Times)". The New York Times. June 14, 2009.
External links


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(19 films)
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(2 films)
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(3 films)
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Filmography of Will Wright (19 films)

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Alias Jesse James, 1h32
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Films about families, Jesse James, Gangster films
Actors Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Will Wright, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Mary Young
Rating63% 3.195643.195643.195643.195643.19564
Milford Farnsworth (Hope) is a bumbling insurance agent who unknowingly sells a life insurance policy to the outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey). Farnsworth is sent out West to protect the insurance company's investment by "protecting" James.
The Missouri Traveler, 1h43
Directed by Jerry Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses
Actors Brandon deWilde, Lee Marvin, Gary Merrill, Paul Ford, Ken Curtis, Kathleen Freeman
Rating62% 3.145323.145323.145323.145323.14532
Brandon deWilde leads a cast lengthy in character actors playing subdued Biarn Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum bound for Florida in the post-World War I time period of 1926. He receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown (Lee Marvin). There, after an episode in the town square involving most of the populace, he meets crusty newspaper man Doyle Magee (Gary Merrill).
Johnny Tremain, 1h20
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors Hal Stalmaster, Luana Patten, Jeff York, Sebastian Cabot, Richard Beymer, Walter Sande
Roles Ephraim Lapham
Rating63% 3.195343.195343.195343.195343.19534
Johnny Tremain is apprenticed to a silversmith, Mr. Lapham. One day, wealthy Jonathan Lyte asks Mr. Lapham to fix a broken silver tea cup. Lapham refuses because he believes he is too old for such jobs. Tremain believes he is skilled enough to do the job, and accepts. After trying several times but failing, he asks fellow silversmith, Paul Revere, for help designing a new handle. Revere tells him to make the handle deeper and larger. Eager to try the new design, Johnny breaks the Sabbath and accidentally burns his hand. The damage is so severe that he will never have full use of the hand again, and cannot continue as a silversmith apprentice. No one will hire him with only one usable hand. The Sons of Liberty recruit him as a messenger, to secretly inform members of the times and locations of meetings.
These Wilder Years, 1h31
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon, Tom Laughlin, Betty Lou Keim, Don Dubbins
Roles Le vieux Chauffeur de taxi
Rating67% 3.3934053.3934053.3934053.3934053.393405
Businessman Steve Bradford (James Cagney) looks for his illegitimate son after 20 years. He turns to Ann Dempster (Barbara Stanwyck), who runs an orphanage, but she is uncooperative.
The Man with the Golden Arm, 1h59
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, Robert Strauss, Darren McGavin
Roles Harry Lane
Rating72% 3.6478453.6478453.6478453.6478453.647845
Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) is released from prison with a set of drums and a new outlook on life, and returns to his run down neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago. A heroin addict, Frankie became clean in prison. On the outside, he greets friends and acquaintances. Sparrow (Arnold Stang), who runs a con selling homeless dogs, clings to him like a young brother, but Schwiefka (Robert Strauss), whom Frankie used to deal for in his illegal card game, has more sinister reasons for welcoming him back, as does Louis (Darren McGavin), Machine's former heroin dealer.
The Raid
The Raid (1954)
, 1h23
Directed by Hugo Fregonese
Origin USA
Genres War, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves
Rating67% 3.390863.390863.390863.390863.39086
In 1864 a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburg, New York, not many miles from the Canadian border, escape. They head for Canada and plan a raid across the border into St. Albans, Vermont, to rob its banks and burn buildings.
The Wild One, 1h15
Directed by László Benedek
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Motocyclette, Road movies, Gangster films
Actors Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Lee Marvin, Robert Keith, Jay C. Flippen, Will Wright
Rating66% 3.3489153.3489153.3489153.3489153.348915
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club (BRMC), a gang led by Johnny Strabler, rides into Carbonville, California during a motorcycle race and causes trouble. A member of the gang, Mouse, steals the second-place trophy (the first place one being too large to hide) and presents it to Johnny. Stewards and policemen order them to leave.
Niagara
Niagara (1953)
, 1h32
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Don Wilson (kickboxeur), Lurene Tuttle
Rating69% 3.497823.497823.497823.497823.49782
Ray and Polly Cutler (Showalter and Peters) on a delayed honeymoon at Niagara Falls, find their reserved cabin occupied by George and Rose Loomis (Cotten and Monroe). Rose tells them that George is asleep at last, and has recently been discharged from an Army mental hospital. The Cutlers politely accept another, less desirable cabin, and so the two couples become acquainted.
Paula
Paula (1952)
, 1h20
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Loretta Young, Kent Smith, Alexander Knox, Tommy Rettig, Will Wright, Will Wright
Rating65% 3.2908053.2908053.2908053.2908053.290805
Distraught after her second miscarriage and learning definitively she could never have children, Paula Rogers, while driving at night, accidentally injures a child. Confused and also expected to attend a function that honors her husband, Paula doesn't follow the child to the hospital as she should. She attempts to tell her husband about the incident but has trouble finding the right time.
Vengeance Valley, 1h18
Directed by John Ireland, Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Richard Thorpe, Irving Ravetch
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, Ted de Corsia
Rating58% 2.947442.947442.947442.947442.94744
Fifteen years ago, wealthy but crippled Colorado cattleman Arch Strobie (Ray Collins), whose own son Lee (Robert Walker) is wild, took in young Owen Daybright (Burt Lancaster) as a foster son to help raise him. Now Owen is ranch foreman, but Lee, despite being married to Jen (Joanne Dru), is wilder than ever.
Adam's Rib
Adam's Rib (1949)
, 1h41
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Political films, Films about marriage
Actors Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen
Rating73% 3.697723.697723.697723.697723.69772
Doris Attinger (Judy Holliday) follows her husband (Tom Ewell) with a gun one day after suspecting he is having an affair with another woman (Jean Hagen). In her rage, she fires at the couple multiple times. One of the bullets hits her husband in the shoulder.
Act of Violence, 1h22
Directed by Fred Zinnemann, John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Bruce Bennett, Volkert Kraeft, Elsa Lanchester
Rating74% 3.744093.744093.744093.744093.74409
Frank Enley (Van Heflin), returns home from World War II after surviving a German POW camp where the rest of his comrades had been murdered by guards during an escape attempt. The "war hero" is respected and praised for his fine character and good works in the California town of Santa Lisa, where he, his young wife and baby had settled after moving from the East. What his wife doesn't know is that Frank relocated them to get away from Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan), once his best friend, who also lived through the ordeal, though he was left with a crippled leg. In exchange for food, Frank had alerted the Nazi camp commander to their escape plans, thinking wrongly that the men would not be punished, and Joe is now determined finally to exact justice on Frank, whose location he has learned from a newspaper story commending him for his civic endeavors.
The Inside Story, 1h27
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Marsha Hunt, William Lundigan, Charles Winninger, Gail Patrick, Gene Lockhart, Florence Bates
Roles Jay Jay Johnson
Rating65% 3.2872453.2872453.2872453.2872453.287245
Un fermier ne cesse d'entasser ses gains dans un coffre à la banque. Oncle Ned, le plus vieil habitant du village, lui explique que l'argent n'est pas fait pour être thésaurisé mais pour circuler. Il se sert d'un exemple, lié à son propre vécu. Ainsi, quelques années après le fameux krach boursier, plus exactement en 1933, les tribulations de plusieurs billets de banques - l'équivalent de mille dollars - avait permis de sauver un homme du suicide, de rétablir la confiance d'un jeune couple en détresse, d'éviter la faillite d'un hôtel et d'un commerce...
Blaze of Noon, 1h31
Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix, Sterling Hayden, Howard Da Silva
Rating61% 3.0963253.0963253.0963253.0963253.096325
Early in the 1920s, the four McDonald brothers are performing in a carnival as a stunt flying team, when they are hired by Mercury Airlines in Newark, New Jersey, to fly the national air mail for the US Air Mail Service.
Rendezvous with Annie, 1h29
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Eddie Albert, Faye Marlowe, Gail Patrick, Phillip Reed, Raymond Walburn, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Elmer Snodgrass
Rating66% 3.3106153.3106153.3106153.3106153.310615
Ex serviceman Jeffrey Dolan is held incarcerated in a New Jersey jail, suspected of murder. He gets a visit from a nicht ckub singer, Dolores Starr, and recapitulates the events leading him to his current miserable situation.