{"product_id":"b0cd6z5x74","title":"Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine (Game Histories)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA deep dive into the trailblazing simulation game  SimCity , situating it in the history of games, simulation, and computing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding SimCity  explores the history of computer simulation by chronicling one of the most influential simulation games ever made:  SimCity . As author Chaim Gingold explains, Will Wright, the visionary designer behind the urban planning game, created  SimCity  in part to learn about cities, appropriating ideas from traditions in which computers are used as tools for modeling and thinking about the world as a complex system. As such,  SimCity  is a microcosm of the histories and cultures of computer simulation that engages with questions, themes, and representational techniques that reach back to the earliest computer simulations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGingold uses  SimCity  to explore a web of interrelated topics in the history of technology, software, and simulation, taking us far and wide—from the dawn of programmable computers to miniature cities made of construction paper and role-play. An unprecedented history of Maxis, the company founded to bring  SimCity  to market, the book reveals Maxis’s complex relations with venture capitalists, Nintendo, and the Santa Fe Institute, which shaped the evolution of Will Wright’s career; Maxis’s failure to back  The Sims  to completion; and the company’s sale to Electronic Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lavishly visual book,  Building SimCity  boasts a treasure trove of visual matter to help bring its wide-ranging subjects to life, including painstakingly crafted diagrams that explain  SimCity ’s operation, the Kodachrome photographs taken by Charles Eames of schoolchildren making model cities, and Nintendo’s manga-style “Dr. Wright” character design, just to name a few.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52835373088984,"sku":"YSL58263","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/811kuX9TKIL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793263552","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0cd6z5x74","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}