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Episode 124 | Mike Sellers of "Sims 2" on Community and Real Life Faith
Humans of Gaming Podcast
English - October 17, 2018 04:29 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Religion & Spirituality Christianity humans of gaming love thy nerd nerd interviews board games video games Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Mike Sellers has a "career swamp" that flows through nearly every game genre. Starting off with a desire to be a neurosurgeon, Mike's career path would instead lead him to be a software engineer and interface designer. In the 90's he founded, along with his brother, Archetype Interactive which would develop the first 3D MMO Meridian 59. He would go on to work with Will Wright on The Sims 2, do extensive work with DARPA on AI, and finally settle down to be head of the University of Indiana's Game Design program.
Mike is also our first guest who is part of the Latter Day Saints. Drew and Chris ask about the tenants of the LDS church for those who may not be familiar and find common ground about how the Gospel is not about "Here is where you are wrong and we can now be friends if you accept that," but about the living Gospel as the best witness.