Since his departure from Maxis, Will Wright initially left video games aside. He has in fact concentrated, with the teams of his start-up Stupid Fun Clubon the production a program for Current TV. But quickly, the man returned to his first love. After joining the board of directors of Linden Lab (Second Life), he mainly announced Proxi at the Game Developers Conference of March 2018. 6 years later, the mobile game is still under development and is rather discreet. Besides an appearance at the event Intel’s AI Everywhere last yearlittle has been heard of the title. But after a trailer broadcast a month ago, Will Wright put it back in the spotlight by talking about it on the Twitch channel of BreakthroughT1D. And the least we can say is that we might have trouble getting out Next of our minds after that, perhaps for the better, especially for the worse.
It was during a stream aimed at raising funds for research into type 1 diabetes that Will Wright appeared on Twitch. He took the opportunity to give more information about the mysterious Next. And what was supposed to be the pitch for a game quickly sounded like the scenario of a dystopian fantasy novel… Next was in fact born from a supposition: “It goes without saying that the more I can make a game about you, the more you will like it. […] It’s a sort of saying that has always guided me, that no game designer has ever gone wrong in overestimating the narcissism of their players.” If it is true that life simulation players often tend to want to recreate themselves in the game, Will Wright intends to follow with Next a more advanced route, bordering on the murky.
In Nextyou will indeed have to explain several of your memories to the game, which it will transform into animated scenes. All these memories will then constitute a “monde mental” where you can immerse yourself to play games and interact with people “proxys”who are none other than the protagonists of your memories. Imagine players locking themselves in their own memories to escape their reality. No, this is not an episode of Black Mirrorbut this is to be misunderstood. Add to that a large place left to generative Artificial Intelligence, and we begin to have a project that is clearly not going to please everyone. Especially since this is not the first time that Will Wright has used questionable emerging technologies. With VoxVersehe had in fact already bet on the blockchain. Regarding Nextwe will have to wait for the release to find out what it really is about. But as of now, there is no information about this yet. To be continued, if the idea of playing a game centered on your life really interests you…
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