William Wright (born January 20 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, now part of Electronic Arts.
The first computer game Wright designed was Raid on Bungeling Bay in 1984 but it was SimCity that brought him to prominence. The game was released by Maxis, a company Wright formed with Jeff Braun, and he built upon the game\'s theme of computer simulation with numerous other titles including SimEarth and SimAnt.
Wright\'s greatest success to date came as the original designer for The Sims games series which, as of 2008, is the best-selling PC game in history.
