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Will Wright is one of the richest Game Designer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Will Wright's net worth $20 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
While he didn’t earn the degree of a college professor He did study computers, architecture mechanical engineering, as well as many other disciplines in Louisiana State University, Louisiana Tech and The New School in Manhattan.
The investor and he Jeff Braun created the Maxis video game business and introduced the first SimCity game during the latter half of the 1980s.
William Ralph Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the former game development company Maxis, and then part of Electronic Arts (EA). In April 2009, he left EA to run Stupid Fun Club Camp, an entertainment think tank in which Wright and EA are principal shareholders.
In 1986, Wright met Jeff Braun, an investor interested in entering the computer game industry, at what Wright has called “the world’s most important pizza party.” Together they formed Maxis the next year in Orinda, California. SimCity (1989) was a hit and has been credited as one of the most influential computer games ever made. Wright himself has been widely featured in several computer magazines—particularly PC Gamer, which has listed Wright in its annual ‘Game Gods’ feature, alongside such notables as Roberta Williams and Peter Molyneux.
Following the success of SimCity, Wright designed SimEarth (1990) and SimAnt (1991). He co-designed SimCity 2000 (1993) with Fred Haslam and in the meantime Maxis produced other “Sim” games. Wright’s next game was SimCopter (1996). Although none of these games were as successful as SimCity, they further cemented Wright’s reputation as a designer of “software toys”—games that cannot be won or lost, but played indefinitely. In 1992, Wright moved to Orinda, California.
