On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me. |
Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game. |
Spore |
The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent. |
The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine. |
The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does. |
The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges. |
The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play. |
The tools are the weak spot, That limits its appeal to a fairly hard-core group. |
There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political. |
There are several projects I have never ended up doing, for various reasons, but I still find myself researching them. |
These games contain elements of all the other mediums before -- books, movies, television, theater, toys, and architecture. |
We also have future versions of the single-player Sims currently in the works. |
We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area. |
We really want to have most of the failure in a game be based on things that the player did, as opposed to things outside of the player's control. |