Wired, Chris Sawyer interview (2013)

Cite as: Wired, Chris Sawyer interview (2013)
Original: https://www.wired.com/story/chris-sawyer-transport-tycoon/
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Accessed: 2026-10-26
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Credit: Owen Faraday, Wired UK, 20 September 2013. Sawyer answered by email through an intermediary; the piece also quotes Julian Gollop and Sarah Northway about Transport Tycoon.
Notes: Sawyer gives his influences (Sid Meier, Peter Molyneux, Will Wright; Railroad Tycoon, Populous, SimCity), the working title "Interactive Transport Simulation", and "I wanted to have a gameworld on the screen with little vehicles all going about their business". The piece is a 2013 retrospective, not a period source.

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In 2013 Sawyer named Sid Meier, Peter Molyneux and Will Wright, and their games Railroad Tycoon, Populous and SimCity, as his biggest influences at the time, and said he wanted a game world full of little vehicles going about their business, "fun to watch as well as rewarding to play".	`paragraph on his influencessame passage`	Interview
Wired's 2013 retrospective calls Transport Tycoon "an immediate and unqualified success" for MicroProse and says: "Sales were brisk, and Microprose immediately put Sawyer to work on an expanded 'Deluxe' version of the game, and then commissioned a sequel."	`paragraph after the namingsame paragraph`	Interview