Wired posted a brief article on Will Wright’s ‘Stupid Fun Club’ with a few points of what possibly could come out of his new hobby. We know he likes to tinker around with robots, he plans to work on television ideas, and of course – different games. But what will they become? I wish he’d stop keeping us in suspense!
Stupid Fun Club has just 10 staffers, a fraction of the number who worked on his last title, the ambitious universe sim Spore. “When a team has more than 80 members, it gets very unwieldy,” he says. This may explain why Wright is eager to join the indie movement that’s sweeping the industry. Several high-profile developers—like David Jaffe and Neil Young—have formed tiny production teams to make innovative, attention-getting games. Wright crafts a characteristically erudite metaphor on the state of the medium. “Five hundred million years ago, during the Cambrian explosion, all these diverse life forms evolved,” he says. “Our industry is going through that explosion now.”
