Within the 25th anniversary of the SIMs, New York Times He talked to the main designer of the original Will Wright game, who gave some insight into the programming of her artificial intelligence. Part of the inspiration comes from an unlikely source: his house is burning in 1991.
This did not resemble fires in Sim, which are usually caused by someone with low cooking skill, which is near the toaster. Wright’s house was caught in Oakland Hills Firestorm. “When I returned to the ashes of my house, I noticed that the only still living things were ants,” said Wright. “They buried deep into the ground to survive the fire and lived from the dead corpses of what they could feed.”
Rebuilding their lives and re -familiarizing themselves with so many basic belongings, they drove an idea for the Sims. But his observations of ants, which he pointed out, because Simant was then a year of development. When the time came for Sims programs, they received a similar artificial intelligence to the Simants, only when ants prioritized the activities based on pheromone markers in their environment, the Sims took care of the objects. The fridge gives its ability to reduce hunger, the bed gives it the ability to reduce fatigue and so on.
The problem was that the Sims were too astute in the priority of their needs. “In the early versions of the game, autonomy was too good,” said Wright. “Almost everything the player did was worse than the Sims acting on the autopilot.”
Maxis had to withdraw him, and instead every SIM choose randomly from the choice of its most essential priorities. In this way, we ended up with a game in which the Sims is celebrated for instead of going to the toilet, become a bowl of cereals instead of cleaning and going away to do something else before they eat petals.
The continuations withdrew a bit, which can sit and observe how your Sims have life without a disaster. After training the original, I still can’t resist my Sims microphone, even though I don’t always have to. What if they burn the house and nothing left but ants?
