Sims creator Will Wright has officially left megaton publisher EA today, in order to focus on the “Stupid Fun Club.” The club has been a side project group for Wright for several years.  The name of the organization suggests that Wright wishes to help incubate new, unorthodox means of entertainment, which he is famous for.  Click continue for more about his future.

“The entertainment industry is moving rapidly into an era of revolutionary change,” says Wright. “Stupid Fun Club will explore new possibilities that are emerging from this sublime chaos and create new forms of entertainment on a variety of platforms. In my twelve years at EA, I’ve had the pleasure to work alongside some of the brightest and most talented game developers in the industry and I look forward to working with them again in the near future.”

So EA and game development may not be out of the question for Wright’s future, but it does seem that he is looking to branch out.

A 2002 newsweek article elaboarates on what the “Stupid Fun Club” is all about:

“The two-year-old stupid Fun Club is organized around the interest in robots, shared by Thorpe and filmmaker Mike Winter, Wright’s partners in the club. Their first TV pilot, called “M.Y. Robot,” features six-inch-high puppets, a roaming robot and a 16th-century Japanese village that has been altered by alien technology. In postproduction, anime-style graphics were overlaid onto the footage to communicate with viewers in a secret script. Wright explains that he was appropriating Japanese visual styles in the same way the Japanese shows reinterpret American cultural mores. “As far as we know, nobody has done this,” he says.”

Sounds like an eccentric intellectual like Wright is in good company at the “Stupid Fun Club.”  We wish all the luck in the world to him in his future endeavors. I’ll be eagerly awaiting the first episode of “Robot Roaming in 16th-century Japan with Alien Technology.”

Source: MTV Multiplayer