Ocean Quigley’s Project Blog – Simcity 4 mockups of change Once again InfiniteSims has picked up on the latest post from Ocean Quigley (former EA employee) in which he describes the different*mock-ups*he used making SimCity 4 in different times of the day: Here are a couple of design mockups I did while art-directing SimCity 4, both showing how buildings change over time. This one shows the arc of a building’s construction, development and ultimately decay and abandonment. In SimCity, the buildings are your window onto the state of the simulation, so they needed to represent all of these states, which cumulatively tell you how well your city is doing. And this one simply shows how buildings change over the course of a day, as their lights go off and on and the sun goes up and down. It’s the animation-test version of*this design These posts bring up the question of why EA fired this guy in the first place. Perhaps he was just too good or perhaps he was suggesting EA should be nicer to their*customers?
