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Midsummer’s other founders are Grant Rodiek, who spent 18 years at Maxis as a producer and director onThe Sims, and Will Miller, former lead designer of Civilisation: Beyond Earth and former lead engineer of Midnight Suns. Nelsie Birch, meanwhile, is new to games: she hails from the world of municipal government and public finance, which sounds like it’ll stand her in good stead as the fledgling studio’s chief operational officer.
Midsummer Studios have funding from Tirta Ventures, Betaworks Ventures, 1Up Ventures, F4 Fund, Krafton, Day Zero Productions and Transcend Fund. The latter’s founding partner Shanti Bergel used to be a producer on The Sims, and has “an abiding respect for how hard it is to deliver the alchemy of community, systems design, gameplay, and user generated content necessary” to create a good life sim.
Lest the above seem out of synch with Solomon’s previous work, he’s been thinking about life sims for some time. Katharine picked his brain on the subject last April, before she left us in the lurch with Nic and his appalling trombone obsessions. Here’sthe digested version of that conversation, in which Solomon reflects on the sins of Midnight Suns (whose life simmy aspects are among its least-liked features), and here’sthe full unedited Q&A for RPS supporters.
