Building SimCity
How to Put the World in a Machine
$141.49
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2024
Summary
Building SimCity
Building SimCity offers a deep dive into the trailblazing simulation game SimCity, situating it within the broader history of games, simulation, and computing. As author Chaim Gingold explains, Will Wright, the visionary designer behind the urban planning game, created SimCity in part to learn about cities, appropriating ideas from traditions in which computers are used as tools for modeling and thinking about the world as a complex system.
As such, SimCity …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547482 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262547481 |
| Author: | Chaim Gingold |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 774g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 153mm x 228mm |
| Series: | Game Histories |
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Critics Review
“In his new book Building SimCity, Gingold meticulously describes the history of the people and ideas that shaped simulation games. Gingold’s book recognizes that games are rarely the result of a single person’s efforts. Building SimCity includes the collaborators—programmers, artists, interface designers, writers, and business partners—who helped make the game an unlikely commercial success. It also situates SimCity in the wider context of 20th-century computing, design, and education.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“The triumph of Building SimCity is that it lays bare the illusive nature of simulation: that although many small parts make up a simulation, once we are through its portal, the simulation of these many different parts takes on a cultural life and reality of its own.”
—Technology and Culture
Chaim Gingold
Chaim Gingold is a designer and theorist whose work has been featured in Wired, CNN, and the New York Times. He worked closely with Will Wright on Spore and designed the Spore Creature Creator.
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