Will Wright — creator of my favorite computer game, SimCity — and Brian Eno — collaborator with my favorite artist, David Byrne — talk about randomness and rule-based generation in the worlds of music and gaming. Either of these artists would be interesting on their own. Together, they are magical.
The site that hosts this video, FORA.tv, is everything YouTube is not: intelligent, elegant, informative, with quality, downloadable video rather than low-res web-locked crap.
if you learn how to read, read this:
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/061106fa_fact
Posted by: anna | January 16, 2007 at 08:55 AM
Yes, but more importantly: when the hell is Spore gonna come out?
Posted by: Danny | January 19, 2007 at 01:08 PM
That was a great chat they had. I was lucky enough to work with Will Wright at Maxis. I have to say he was pretty fantastic.
Posted by: Eben Sorkin | July 02, 2007 at 12:27 AM