the little games

Will Wright designs video games.Some were popular, like SimCity. Some weren’t. Does anyone remember SimCopter?Success or failure, Wright keeps making games. According to this profile, he’s been working on his latest, Proxi, since 2015, with no release in sight.Wright has reinvented video games as an art form several times. He’s made fortunes for himself and many others through his singular creative efforts. That said, even the most gung-ho investor eventually begins to doubt, and his are long gone. As of now, Wright has laid off most of his team and is continuing work toward a playable demo with an unpaid skeleton crew. I truly wonder what goes through his mind at times like this.Reading about Wright’s struggle to do the impossible yet again, I couldn’t help but think of Megalopolis. It’s a shame Francis Ford Coppola lost his fortune making a mega-flop, as documented in a recent documentary, but if he’d been the type to walk away from a troubled project, he would never have completed…