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| I think SimTower was from Maxis, not from Thinking Tools / Maxis Business by blackwater 06/13/2020, 8:24am PDT | ||||
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| but yeah, it was a lot of fun.
In case you're wondering about the timeline, SimIraq was made by John Hiles, after Thinking Tools was disbanded. He was just really committed to the whole "serious sim" thing. I was hoping there'd be more information about it, but there really isn't a lot. Maybe it was classified? Another thing I wanted to add, but I didn't have time, is that Will Wright actually didn't really believe in "serious sims." He was a fun-first kind of guy, and it shows in the design of SimCity. This is actually how you make a commercially successful game, I think. It has to actually be fun. So it's maybe surprising that Maxis even bought the group that would later be spun out as Thinking Tools. I can only attribute it to the early 1990s irrational exuberance. 
(Dr. John Hiles, serious computerist) I suppose if VR can make a comeback, maybe serious sims and other 90s ideas can too? We've only got like 5 or 6 ideas here, people. We've gotta reuse them somehow. |
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The strange tale of SimRefinery by 06/13/2020, 12:09am PDT  might be frontpage worthy, thanks for posting. wait, this is caltrops so I meant by 06/13/2020, 6:09am PDT I think SimTower was from Maxis, not from Thinking Tools / Maxis Business by 06/13/2020, 8:24am PDT Is "serious sims" related to "serious games" (remember serious gaming) NT by 06/13/2020, 12:00pm PDT |
