Author of Building SimCity (simcitybook.com); Made @EarthPrimer, designed Spore Creature Creator; PhD from @UCSC.
Joined December 2010
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12 Jun 2024
Brief book report: BUILDING SIM CITY: How to Put the World in a Machine, by Chaim Gingold, is an exhilarating read.
It is one of the best origin stories ever told and the best account I've seen of how innovation actually occurs in computerdom. 🧵
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5 Mar 2025
A little less than a year ago, I began working on something I felt was truly unique.
Today it launches🧵
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18 Jan 2025
Our world is defined by emergent properties that can only be explored through simulation, yet the modern era hasn't integrated the deep philosophical challenges this poses: we need multiple approaches; prediction is necessary but insufficient; no one story is enough...
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5 Dec 2024
17 years later, Caves of Qud 1.0 is here
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5 Oct 2024
for the @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about @cgingold's Building SimCity (a remarkable work of software history!), videogames as an art form, and what happens when Silicon Valley tries to play IRL SimCity…aka the controversial Californian Forever project 🌁🛠️
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2 Oct 2024
@cgingold A friend of mine lived next door to Will Wright, so I went to visit. On the left is Yoneda Takashi, a legend in the Japanese gaming world, next to him is digital artist Mimura Chie, and on the far right is me. The photographer of the three of us and our neighbor is Ikeda Tomoya, who drew the flying toaster, and they are all members of the Enzan-Hoshigumi team, which has been developing Macintosh apps in Japan since 1985.
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31 May 2024
大好きなゲームでした。1990年に米国オークランドの池田友也氏を訪問したら、隣に作者のウィルさんが住んでいました。ということでご自宅にお邪魔しました。池田さん撮影の写真です
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25 Sep 2024
Live on the free feed: @ubersaurus and author @cgingold get into the nitty gritty of SimCity
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18 Jul 2024
Tomorrow: BUILDING SIMCITY chat with Will Wright!
Some cellular automata for you: Langton Loops.
16 Jul 2024
📢 THIS FRIDAY: @cgingold and THE Will Wright (@StupidFunWill) will be chatting the new book BUILDING SIMCITY: How to Put the World in a Machine. LIVE on TWITCH July 19 @ 2PM ET.
🎟️RSVP Now! tickettailor.com/events/romc…
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21 Jun 2024
Had fun talking with @arbesman about Maxis, SimCity, and the history of computing on this podcast!
21 Jun 2024
How did Cold War nuclear game theory developed at MIT in the 1950s and 1960s ultimately transform video games in the 1980s and 1990s? It’s the story of SimCity, inspired by 📖 “Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine” 🧵
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21 Jun 2024
How did Cold War nuclear game theory developed at MIT in the 1950s and 1960s ultimately transform video games in the 1980s and 1990s? It’s the story of SimCity, inspired by 📖 “Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine” 🧵
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16 Jun 2024
Another SimCity tidbit from my new book, BUILDING SIMCITY! simcitybook.com. 🙏 Jeff Braun for saving and sharing so many wonderful photos, including this one of you, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Will Wright.
In 1989, a Nintendo bigwig licensed SimCity on the spot by sliding a million dollar check across the table. trib.al/GymE28z
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In 1989, a Nintendo bigwig licensed SimCity on the spot by sliding a million dollar check across the table. trib.al/GymE28z
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Chaim Gingold retweeted
13 Jun 2024
Angels, aliens, videogames, neural networks…these ideas are reflections of the machinations of our times.
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14 Jun 2024
Developed some new and fun blending modes for #projectneo, like the avoidance and repulsion seen here: projectneo.adobe.com/studio/…
12 Jun 2024
New combine modes in Project Neo are beyond satisfying, try them here: projectneo.adobe.com/studio/… #projectneo #adobe
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12 Jun 2024
Brief book report: BUILDING SIM CITY: How to Put the World in a Machine, by Chaim Gingold, is an exhilarating read.
It is one of the best origin stories ever told and the best account I've seen of how innovation actually occurs in computerdom. 🧵
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6 Jun 2024
I thought it would be fun to turn the tables and give Will Wright a chance to interview someone else: me (!), about Building SimCity.☺️
6 Jun 2024
🗓️ Mark your calendars!🗓️Next month, ROMchip is hosting @cgingold and Will Wright for a discussion of Gingold's new book 🏙️ BUILDING SIMCITY 🏙️
Event will broadcast live on Twitch Friday, July 19 @ 2PM EST. Grab your tix here: app.tickettailor.com/events/…
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6 Jun 2024
🗓️ Mark your calendars!🗓️Next month, ROMchip is hosting @cgingold and Will Wright for a discussion of Gingold's new book 🏙️ BUILDING SIMCITY 🏙️
Event will broadcast live on Twitch Friday, July 19 @ 2PM EST. Grab your tix here: app.tickettailor.com/events/…
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4 Jun 2024
I can't wait to read this book on SimCity from Chaim! It sounds like a loving tribute to the game, its engineering, its history, and its studio. Chaim's "Earth Primer" app on iOS is one of the most impressive simulation-based learning experiences I've had. Check that out too!
4 Jun 2024
__Building SimCity__ launches today w @mitpress!
✨Alan Kay: "Highly recommended!"✨
👉🏻30% off today at 🐧tinyurl.com/24asb3wc
(with code PUBDAY30; US address required)
👇🏻Accidental ASMR teaser video👁️
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4 Jun 2024
Rare that we get something this exhaustive and firsthand on an essential game from the '90s - 486 pages, with color images! Essential work.
PC Gamer will be publishing a few stories drawn from this book in June.
4 Jun 2024
__Building SimCity__ launches today w @mitpress!
✨Alan Kay: "Highly recommended!"✨
👉🏻30% off today at 🐧tinyurl.com/24asb3wc
(with code PUBDAY30; US address required)
👇🏻Accidental ASMR teaser video👁️
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