Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  SimCity Online (02 May 2003) Will Wright, Maxis’ Chief Designer, co-founded Maxis with Jeff Braun in 1987. Wright began working on what would become SimCity—The City Simulator in 1985. Using a complex technique, he found a way to bring realistic simulations to desktop PCs. Previously simulations of this sort were only available to the military, scientists and academicians. But now, using an easy to use graphic interface, the world of simulations opened up to consumers. Wright has had a lifelong fascination with simulations. His interest in plastic models of ships and airplanes during his childhood in Georgia eventually led to his designing computer models of cities, ecosystems and ant colonies. Article URL: http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/abstracts/02-03/030502-wright.html   90.00    (Will Wright (Maxis))   Read 123 more articles from Stanford HCI Seminars sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: UPA German Chapter Organises Usability Professionals Track for Conference This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy