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Will Wright’s talks at the Game Developers Conference were not to be missed. They were wild, fascinating and funny. He would often go off-topic with mini-presen

Will Wright’s talks at the Game Developers Conference were not to be missed. They were wild, fascinating and funny. He would often go off-topic with mini-presentations like the “Russian Space Minute” where he marveled at the analog computers used in space by the cosmonauts. It’s really hard to find recordings. I don’t even know if they are all available anywhere on the Internet.

DonHopkins 4y ago
Here are the videos of the three talks by Will Wright (including this one) presented to Terry Winograd's user interface class over the years. Stanford Library has just recently made these available! I uploaded this one to youtube and closed captioned it, and I'll get around to the others when I have the chance. There are a LOT of really excellent historic videos in the collection by many other amazing people. Guide to the Stanford University, Computer Science Department, HCI Group, CS547 Seminar Videorecordings https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82b926h/entire_text/ https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82b926h/entire_tex... Stanford University, Computer Science Department, HCI Group, CS547 seminar videorecordings, 1990-2012 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10637698 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10637698 From: Henry E Lowood at Stanford All, This video has been reformatted and is streamed from the Stanford website. As far as I can tell, there should be no restriction on access from off-campus: Interfacing to Microworlds, Will Wright, Maxis in SearchWorks catalog (stanford.edu) (April 26, 1996) https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/yj113jt5999 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/yj113jt5999 Two more of Will’s lectures streamed from Stanford: Will Wright, Maxis, "Games and Simulation" in SearchWorks catalog (stanford.edu) (May 2, 2003) https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/pw467bz3079 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/pw467bz3079 Laughing Creative Communities: Lessons for the Spore community experience, Will Wright, Maxis / Electronic Arts in SearchWorks catalog (stanford.edu) (May 22, 2009) https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/pd936vc7267 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/pd936vc7267 If you have issues viewing the videos, please let me know and I will pass the information along to our media lab. Having had the pleasure of Will lecturing in my Stanford course on one or two occasions, I am glad to see that these examples of his thinking (and lecturing style!) are available. Please consider sending important documents to Stanford for preservation. We offer one of the leading collections of game-related archival material for research and instruction and our streaming services are robust. All my best, Henry Henry Lowood, PhD Harold C. Hohbach Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections, Curator for Film & Media Collections. HSSG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall Stanford University Libraries, Stanford CA 93405-6004 Web: https://people.stanford.edu/lowood/ https://people.stanford.edu/lowood/ Email: lowood@stanford.edu
- corysama 4y ago
  Thank you so much! I maintain a subreddit that collects "Behind the Scenes/The Making of" videos for videogames. I've posted your youtube vid there. https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/comments/10piafv/will_wright_maxis_interfacing_to_microworlds/ https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/comments/10piafv/w...?

DonHopkins 4y ago

Here are the videos of the three talks by Will Wright (including this one) presented to Terry Winograd's user interface class over the years. Stanford Library has just recently made these available! I uploaded this one to youtube and closed captioned it, and I'll get around to the others when I have the chance. There are a LOT of really excellent historic videos in the collection by many other amazing people. Guide to the Stanford University, Computer Science Department, HCI Group, CS547 Seminar Videorecordings https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82b926h/entire_text/ https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82b926h/entire_tex... Stanford University, Computer Science Department, HCI Group, CS547 seminar videorecordings, 1990-2012 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10637698 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10637698 From: Henry E Lowood at Stanford All, This video has been reformatted and is streamed from the Stanford website. As far as I can tell, there should be no restriction on access from off-campus: Interfacing to Microworlds, Will Wright, Maxis in SearchWorks catalog (stanford.edu) (April 26, 1996) https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/yj113jt5999 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/yj113jt5999 Two more of Will’s lectures streamed from Stanford: Will Wright, Maxis, "Games and Simulation" in SearchWorks catalog (stanford.edu) (May 2, 2003) https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/pw467bz3079 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/pw467bz3079 Laughing Creative Communities: Lessons for the Spore community experience, Will Wright, Maxis / Electronic Arts in SearchWorks catalog (stanford.edu) (May 22, 2009) https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/pd936vc7267 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/pd936vc7267 If you have issues viewing the videos, please let me know and I will pass the information along to our media lab. Having had the pleasure of Will lecturing in my Stanford course on one or two occasions, I am glad to see that these examples of his thinking (and lecturing style!) are available. Please consider sending important documents to Stanford for preservation. We offer one of the leading collections of game-related archival material for research and instruction and our streaming services are robust. All my best, Henry Henry Lowood, PhD Harold C. Hohbach Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections, Curator for Film & Media Collections. HSSG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall Stanford University Libraries, Stanford CA 93405-6004 Web: https://people.stanford.edu/lowood/ https://people.stanford.edu/lowood/ Email: lowood@stanford.edu

corysama 4y ago
Thank you so much! I maintain a subreddit that collects "Behind the Scenes/The Making of" videos for videogames. I've posted your youtube vid there. https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/comments/10piafv/will_wright_maxis_interfacing_to_microworlds/ https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/comments/10piafv/w...?