Will Wright Leaves EA/Maxis For Stupid Fun Club

Dave Knott writes "Gamasutra reports that SimCity, Sims and Spore game creator Will Wright is leaving EA/Maxis. He will now be acting as head of Stupid Fun Club, an 'entertainment think tank' that he was previously funding out of his own pocket. From the article: 'The club has focused mainly on designing and building robots, as well as creating video productions based on them. Wright and EA will co-own Stupid Fun Club, which will focus on developing new cross-media IP for games, movies, TV and toys. EA has the right to develop game concepts that emerge from the think tank, and both the company and Wright have an equal stake.'"

Holy shit

[Mozk]

Holy shit that website is ugly! They use Comic Sans, for FSM's sake.

I know that Will Wright is famous and that appearance isn't always everything, but who would do business with a company with an appearance like that?

Re:Holy shit

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought "Meh, just someone complaining" but this site is....really bad. The globe menu is silly, I didn't even realise it was a menu, the buttons spins around for too long so you can't read them and then when they stop they are still difficult to read due to the font and colour. The text is pink and has crusty pixels around the edges. The website itself has very little useful information what so ever and it lags when ever you do something. It looks like a website made in Flash by a High School student learning how to design websites.

Re:Holy shit

[Kranerian]

The entire website was blocked by NoScript. I allowed it, and within 30 seconds changed my mind and blocked it again. That website is atrocious.

Re:Holy shit

[MichaelSmith]

All I get is a message saying I need Flash 10, so it really is stupid.

Re:Daikatana

[gaspyy]

Deus Ex was not made by John Romero of the Daikatana "fame".

Deus Ex was made by Warren Spector.

I remember that at the time Ion Storm had two offices, one in Dallas, one in Austin.

Sadly, Warren Spector was not involved with Deus Ex: Invisible War, and we all know how that turned out.

Re:Thank god

[Hurricane78]

Already done. It's called Postal 2.

Re:Spore

[Hurricane78]

They have already gotten literally millions of free player-created "creatures."

Yeah. With 99% of them being penises, vaginas, boobs and asses. Including 4chan-like furry child-dicknipple feet.

Re:Thank god

[darkshadow]

Already done as Conker's Bad Fur Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conker's_Bad_Fur_Day [wikipedia.org]

Re:Spore

[mpeskett]

I don't know how good or bad your English is, but I'll try and use only fairly common words so that it's easy to read.

Mudkip is one many Pokemon - types of animal (or plant, or robot) things from a series of cartoons and video games (and other things - toys, playing cards, all kinds of stuff)

That specific Pokemon is famous mostly for being part of a crappy internet meme, it's supposed to be funny but really, really isn't.

This might be harder on a limited amount of English, but the start of the 'joke' can be seen here [internetseriousbiz.com]