Most people know Will Wright as the man who created popular games like "Sim City," "The Sims," and "Spore," but his latest project isn't a game at all, it's an app. "I find that I'm spending far ...

In fact, the person who has largely been associated with virtual life is now creating a means for people to better express their real lives through an app called THRED. How does one go from ...

Available today on the iPhone in the U.S., Thred is an app for creating stories with multiple panels. It can be a photo album, or a comic book if you add stickers and overlay text on the image.

But while THRED might seem like an Instagram for comics or a Medium for smartphones, the network and the app speaks to the heart of what Wright has been trying to do in his games: letting people ...

The app, called Thred, lets users create and customize mobile scrapbooks, or “threds,” and share them with friends. Users can pull images straight from their phones or an internet search and ...

In fact, right now I’m trying to design a location-based game in the [Thred] system. For a lot of people, browsing the Web is their basic form of entertainment. How have you designed Thred for ...