GAME DESIGNER

Will Wright

1960 - Today

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William Ralph Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, which later became part of Electronic Arts. In April 2009, he left EA to run Stupid Fun Club Camp, an entertainment think tank in which Wright and EA are principal shareholders. The first computer game Wright designed was Raid on Bungeling Bay in 1984, but it was SimCity that brought him to prominence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Will Wright has received more than 34,236 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Will Wright is the 28th most popular game designer (down from 23rd in 2019), the 7,320th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,802nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Game Designer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 34k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Will Wright ranks 28 out of 77. Before him are Reiner Knizia, Dave Arneson, Yu Suzuki, Kazunori Yamauchi, Carol Shaw, and Eiji Aonuma. After him are Scott Cawthon, Masahiro Sakurai, John Carmack, Hideki Kamiya, John Romero, and Steve Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Will Wright ranks 274. Before him are Courtney B. Vance, Jozef Chovanec, Martina Hellmann, Oleg Menshikov, Pedro Pasculli, and Adrián Campos. After him are Joseph Williams, Željko Šturanović, Artur Yusupov, Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis, Cherie Chung, and Bushra al-Assad.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Will Wright ranks 7,320 out of 20,380. Before him are Beverly Sills (1929), Herschell Gordon Lewis (1926), Jeffrey Combs (1954), Jane Pierce (1806), John Hawkes (1959), and Anna Sui (1952). After him are Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876), Joseph Williams (1960), Vanessa Blue (1974), Louella Parsons (1881), Edward Burns (1968), and John Hinckley Jr. (1955).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In United States

Among game designers born in United States, Will Wright ranks 7. Before him are Jeff Kinney (1971), Gabe Newell (1962), Lizzie Magie (1866), Gary Gygax (1938), Dave Arneson (1947), and Carol Shaw (1955). After him are Scott Cawthon (1971), John Carmack (1970), John Romero (1967), Steve Jackson (1953), Ed Boon (1964), and Ron Gilbert (1964).

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