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After Spore wrapped, games designer Will Wright left his home base of EA Maxis to form Stupid Fun Club, a company focused on expanding the idea of "play" in games and other mediums. Wright hasn't said specifically what Stupid Fun Club is up to, but an interview with Venture Beat provided a little more clarity on how much to expect Wright's new projects to focus on video games.
Wright told Venture Beat that Stupid Fun Club is "pursuing three [projects] pretty aggressively" and "a couple of projects are games." He did not, unfortunately, provide any specifics about his continued presence in games, but he did speak to the approach.
"We are very small and will stay small," he said. "We are 12 people right now. I don’t ever want it to go above 30. We’re looking to partners to help develop games. We want to be more of an early design shop, doing research and development."
Rather than Wright having his own massive team at Stupid Fun Club, the company will collaborate with studios with such a structure in place. During Spore's development, Wright said his next idea was potentially more ambitious than Spore, where Wright was smashing multiple games across radically different genres. That's seemingly as ambitious as you can get! It's unclear whether those ideas have been brought to Super Fun Club, but we might know more soon.
"Our first product could be commercialized in six months to a year," he said.
Of course, that first "product" might not even be a video game.
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Canid117
Spore was a huge let down for me
I wait two and a half years and see all this amazing stuff that they have at E3 and many other demos and then we get a generic cut down arcade collection with a simplified 3d modeling program. It was disappointing...
AirJordan1978
G4 just got better! now that rays gone
PCTech714
I remember playing Sim City on a monochrome monitor when it first came out. So many people forget that this whole Sims thing started with a very simple, yet open-ended concept.
Hopefully Mr. Wright's new company will follow that same basic ideal and avoid interference from massive corporate entities.
aztecyankee
@gizzmo8478
Raymond Padilla left? Awesome!!!...Maybe now most articles won't end with a question. It will be awesome to get unbiased reporting for once!!!
mathiasreese
HOLY CRAP that machinima.com ad is annoying as hell.
skywalker1055
That is one of the coolest pictures ever!
BONERJAM
@Gizzmo8478
I dont want to read your post on every story, none of which have anything to do with what your posting. Yeah, its sucks that he is gone but suck it up and move on.
gizzmo8478
Dear G4,
On behalf of myself and fellow Feed readers, I would like to ask that Raymond Padilla be given chance to write a final farewell article. A chance for him to properly and professionally express any passing thoughts as he leaves this community and moves on to further endeavors. Many of the people that support this site have found immense enjoyment in following it because of writers like Raymond. His wit, intelligence and ability to connect with us on a personal level are what makes our thoughts and comments feel warranted and appreciated. Allowing us to interact with him in a formal article will serve as a proper route of showing our support; instead of using other articles that hold no relevance to the subject to voice our thoughts and warm wishes. Thank you for your consideration.
Sign, The readers of The Feed
SlickyFats
I hope their first project is T-Shirts because I would totally rock a Stupid Fun Club T-shirt, or better yet a Member's Only Jacket. (oops my age is showing)
pmc_soap
i hope he explores new things rather than staying with spore and sims he can but like i hope he makes like and awesome and creative fps for evryone including children who cant play rated m and t games they need love 2 yea no i mean i hAve the privlage of playing all games but it would be cool if kids could get a really good fps
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