Infamous game developer, Will Wright, is leaving Electronic Arts and Maxis, the company he started. Shacknews reports that Wright is leaving EA and Maxis to found his own studio called Stupid Fun Club(no it’s not a belated April Fools joke).
Dubbed Stupid Fun Club, the company is described as "an entertainment think tank developing new Intellectual Properties to be deployed across multiple fronts including video games, movies, television, the internet, and toys."
Stupid Fun Club was initally formed around 2001, to explore Wright's love of robots.
Though Wright is for all intents and purposes leaving Electronic Arts, he will continue to work with the publisher, as Wright and EA now own equal percentages of Stupid Fun Club. Maxis VP Lucy Bradshaw will keep running Maxis, bought by EA in 1997.
Will Wright has always talked about expanding franchises into new domains. His GDC 2008 talk centered around how he envisioned to create Universes that were more than just games.
I feel sad that the creator of Simcity(one of my favourite series) has left the company he founded but I am eager to learn what new projects he will be undertaking. I suppose someone like Will Wright can never work on franchises for long and has to move on to new things. I wish him all the best!
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