Happy publication day to Chaim Gingold, whose excellent first book, Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine, builds on his past work at Maxis and his PhD research into the original SimCity.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547482/building-simcity
I had a hand in getting the book done as an editor for Chaim, my role being to help to turn a promising — but meandering and unfocused — manuscript (with something like 40k words of footnotes!) into a well-polished and highly-thought-out probe into the many underlying facets of culture and practice that Will Wright drew upon, both knowingly and unknowingly, in the creation of SimCity.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547482/building-simcity
I had a hand in getting the book done as an editor for Chaim, my role being to help to turn a promising — but meandering and unfocused — manuscript (with something like 40k words of footnotes!) into a well-polished and highly-thought-out probe into the many underlying facets of culture and practice that Will Wright drew upon, both knowingly and unknowingly, in the creation of SimCity.
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@MossRC Thanks so much for sharing this- sounds like an amazing book I'll need to add to my wishlist.
@keen456 It's a bit academic-y at times, but the writing is solid and it's really interesting. I loved learning about system dynamics and cellular automata and the idea of analogues — and lots of other things that relate to the creation of SimCity — while reading and editing the book.