{"id":1345,"date":"2009-04-08T13:45:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2009-04-08T13:45:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:45:23","slug":"will-wright-leaves-ea-retires-from-aaa-game-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/08\/will-wright-leaves-ea-retires-from-aaa-game-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Wright Leaves EA, retires from AAA game design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/multiplayerblog.mtv.com\/2009\/04\/08\/will-wright-leaves-ea\/\">Stephen Totilo is reporting that game god Will Wright is leaving EA<\/a> to focus on his other hobbies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will Wright, famous designer of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sim City,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Sims,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Spore\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is leaving Electronic Arts, his publisher announced today. Wright will be running the Stupid Fun Club, an organization he started in 2001 with EA and had used for robot experiments, TV pilots and other offbeat ideas for years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This Stupid Fun Club is co-owned by EA, so he&#8217;s not leaving the family entirely, but his departure from the mainstream of game design is probably the biggest news to hit the industry in many years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more once I digest this information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Totilo is reporting that game god Will Wright is leaving EA to focus on his other hobbies. Will Wright, famous designer of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sim City,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Sims,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Spore\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is leaving Electronic Arts, his publisher announced today. Wright will be running the Stupid Fun Club, an organization he started in 2001 with EA and had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,86],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-lH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}