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Building SimCity

Building SimCity

How to Put the World in a Machine

by Chaim Gingold
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/06/2024

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Building SimCity explores the history of computer simulation by chronicling one of the most influential simulation games ever made; SimCity. As author Chaim Gingold explains, Will Wright, the visionary designer behind the urban planning game, created SimCity in part to learn about cities, appropriating ideas from traditions in which computers are used for modeling and thinking about the world as a complex system. As such, SimCity is a microcosm of the histories and cultures of computer simulation that engages with questions, themes, and representational techniques that reach back to the earliest computer simulations. Gingold uses SimCity to explore a web of interrelated topics in the history of technology, software, and simulation, taking us far and wide-from the dawn of programmable computers to miniature cities made of construction paper and role-play. An unprecedented history of Maxis, the company founded to bring SimCity to market, the book reveals Maxis's complex relations with venture capitalists, Nintendo, and the Santa Fe Institute, which shaped the evolution of Will Wright's career; Maxis's failure to back The Sims to completion; and the company's sale to Electronic Arts. A lavishly visual book, Building SimCity boasts a treasure trove of visual matter to help bring its wide-ranging subjects to life, including painstakingly crafted diagrams that explain SimCity's operation, Kodachrome photographs taken by Charles Eames of schoolchildren making model cities, and Nintendo's manga style "Dr. Wright" character design, just to name a few.
ISBN:
9780262547482
9780262547482
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-06-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
MIT Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228x153x22mm
Weight:
0.78kg

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