Poll of the Day > Proxi: The creator of The Sims wants to put your memories into his next game

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https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/will-wright-announces-proxi/

Game designer Will Wright developer of games like SimCity and The Sims will already go down in history as one of the most influential figures in the industry but his next project looks to be just as groundbreaking. Proxi is a game built on your own memories, and Wright wants you to help his team make it.

Proxi is a game built in Unity by Wright and the team at Gallium Artists, and it promises to create rendered scenes based on your unique personal memories.

This is, in some sense, a game of self-discovery, Wright said in the announcement video. [Its] a game where we actually uncover the hidden you.'

By visually representing your memories in Proxi, Wright hopes that players will be able to learn from their experiences more thoroughly, and that the game will learn from the player, as well.

The video shows a few of these scenes in action, including a man fishing in a lake during a rainy day and a snow-covered log cabin. These are called Mems in the game, and multiple players will even be able to combine their memories to create a shared, more complex experience. Wright and Unity are looking for an artist to help them bring these memories to life as tangible, visceral gameplay elements, and it could be you.

To enter the contest, you must take three of your own personal memories and bring them to life with separate environmental scenes. Along with this, youll need to get all the scenes running in Unity to create a video, and youll need to submit an article detailing your creation projects. The art assets created must all be done by you, and they cannot be something you designed previously.

Judges for the contest include Wright himself, Pixar artist Matt Jones, Disney illustrator Bill Robinson, and Journey game designer Robin Hunicke.

Two winners will receive a grand prize, which includes round-trip flights to San Francisco to meet the development team, a private dinner and interview with the judges, licenses for Allegorithmic and Marmoset, and a bundle featuring shirts, games, and stickers from Wrights projects.

Proxi is scheduled to release later this year for mobile devices.

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More on Proxi: https://www.proxiai.com/about
Will Wright explaining Proxi and the Unity contest:

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Thoughts on this project? Since Wright is involved, I'm definitely interested.
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What could possibly go wrong?

/sarc

My brain port is ready
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Doesn't seem like something that would be on mobile. Also means I'll probably never play it.
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... mobile only?

lmao
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What was his last project? Spore? I'll wait and see on this one homeo.
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Wasn't there a game that already did this?

Child of Eden, I think. I seem to recall the developer asking for personal photos from people/fans to include in the game.
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Far-Queue posted...

Wasn't there a game that already did this?

I don't know, was there?

Oh damn you just had to edit that in
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Far-Queue posted...

Wasn't there a game that already did this?

Child of Eden, I think. I seem to recall the developer asking for personal photos from people/fans to include in the game.

That game was bizarre and awesome
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Child of Eden is made by the person who made Rez, which was fucking fun
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Soooo theres no tl;dr version to this?

Im very much a tl;dr kinda guy

Bible? Tldr
Newspapers? Tldr
Text messages? Tldr
Emails? Tldr
Anything where I have to read more than a couple of lines? Tldr

Who wants to indulge my lazy ass
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RCtheWSBC posted...

Child of Eden is made by the person who made Rez, which was fucking fun

Rez is brilliant.
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FatalAccident posted...

Soooo theres no tl;dr version to this?

Im very much a tl;dr kinda guy

Bible? Tldr
Newspapers? Tldr
Text messages? Tldr
Emails? Tldr
Anything where I have to read more than a couple of lines? Tldr

Who wants to indulge my lazy ass

"Teach a man to fish."

FatalAccident posted...

Soooo theres no tl;dr version to this?

Im very much a tl;dr kinda guy

Bruh you can't read something that "long"? yeesh
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Do people not know Will Wright by name these days? Damn, he's fallen far.
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Im a lazy ass
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