The Reboot/GDC 2008: An Evening with Will Wright
The creator of The Sims hosted a special GDC private speaking session at the Mezzanine in San Francisco, CA. Spore was not the focus of Will Wright’s speech. In this episode of The Reboot, Wright speaks on a wide array of topics, including The history of The Sims, Godzilla, Star Wars and James Bond.
[…] Your new favorite podcast that is sometimes, tangentially about video games is back! This week beverage enthusiast Jeff Gerstmann, freelance gigolo Alex Navarro, and I bask in the afterglow of GDC, guzzle horrible energy drinks, contemplate legal action against McDonald’s, declare Cobra a 2008 Oscar winner, and so very much more! Join us, won’t you? Afterwards, be sure to check out Will Wright’s talk at GDC 2008. […]
Not sure if this is the right place to report a site bug, but as I couldn’t see any way of contacting the web team, I thought I may as well try here.
Links for “The Reboot Episode 4: Halo 3 Review,” “The Reboot Episode 8: Video Game Audio” and “The Reboot Episode 9: The Life of a Pro Gamer” are broken.
They start off with “http://http//www” which means you have to manually edit the address to get to the episodes.
Other than that, great site, and I look forward to seeing a lot more
Sonic,
Good eye. Made the changes to the links. Thanks for the support!
-Rio
Oh my god will wright is so funny.
I love listening to him every year he is a genius no wonder his games are so good.
Would it be possible to release the Will Wright show for download somewhere? Your version is quite higher quality and more complete than the others I’ve seen.
Thanks!
Will answered my question about SimCopter! I hope he actually gets around to making a new one.
Josh,
You can download the video. Here’s the link.
http://www.podtech.net/home/4933/the-rebootgdc-2008-an-evening-with-will-wright
Were you at the event? It was pretty fun, eh?
Hey Rio. Awesome, thanks!
I had a ton of fun at the event. It was probably the defining moment of the GDC this year. I try to make it to every Will Wright event I can, and fortunately this one was easy to get to. Great food, too! I’ve attended several press events at the Mezzanine and they’ve NEVER served dim sum before. Ever. I also ran into ex-Gamespotter Ryan Davis and had several fascinating conversations with random people. A great night.
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How can you say Spore was not the focus of this presentation? It wasn’t explicitly about it - but it definitely was about Spore.
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