How is EmpathyWorks different from the Sims™ published by Maxis and distributed by Electronic Arts?
EmpathyWorks is rather similar to the Sims artificial intelligence program in many ways. One key difference is that The Sims is a complete packaged game, while EmpathyWorks provides an important building block for making artificial life games; EmpathyWorks could enable games like The Sims, but with more control over life stages, species and the types of relationships. EmpathyWorks can also be used to power robots and avatars. This means that the personalities and relationships powered by EmpathyWorks could reach out from a game into the physical world.