{"id":5702,"date":"2010-04-01T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"sims-creator-working-on-a-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5702-sims-creator-working-on-a-tv-show","title":{"rendered":"Sims creator working on a TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Wright, former SimCity and Sims guy, has double-teamed with former Spike TV and Nickelodean guy Albie Hecht, and is working on a TV show dubbed &ldquo;The Creation Project&rdquo;. According to IGN, it&rsquo;s a &ldquo;TV series about the creation of a TV series&rdquo;, one of those brain-boggling concepts that&rsquo;s going to have stupid people counting stuff out on their fingers everywhere when it launches later this year.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like there&rsquo;s some audience participation involved too &ndash; the sort of audience participation where the audience actually comes up with everything. There&rsquo;s apparently a online\/mobile device component, dubbed &ldquo;StoryMaker Engine&rdquo;, that people can use to rapidly prototype ideas and storyboards and submit these to producers.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the idea, anyway. If it&rsquo;s anything like Wright&rsquo;s last project (Spore), anything could change. Including just about everything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Wright moves into TV, makes grilled cheese sandwiches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}