Widget Workshop™

Copyright ©1994 Maxis
Self-Running Widgets Freely Distributable

Widget Workshop is published and programmed by Maxis

Widget Workshop was designed by Elliott Portwood Productions


Widget Workshop has been in development almost two years (!) and the cast of characters that helped it see the light of day include the following: 


Lead Programmer:

Mick “Widget Wrangler” Foley

Parts Programmer:

Andrey “Just Make It Consistent” Snegov

Programming Assistance from:

Jamie “Just In The Nick Of Time” Doornbos
Neil “Where’s My Firehat?” Alexander


Producer and PD support cast:

Roxy “I’ve Made A List For You” Wolosenko
Claire “The Psychologist Is In” Curtin
Michael “Mountain Man” Wyman
Alissa “No Problem” Levenberg
Brian “Give Me Solid Code” Conrad
Joe “Whatever It Takes To Get The Job Done” Scirica


All the artwork was done by:

Steve “The Surfing Safari” Greek


All the written materials were done by:

Michael  “The Maddest Of The Mad Scientists” Bremer

and edited by:

Debra “Just Checking” Larson

and laid out by:

Vera “Just Lay It On Me” Jaye
Kristine “You Want It When?” Brogno
David “Viva La Italia” Caggiano


All the marketing stuff including the box, flyers, promos, etc. were done by:

Mike “This Will Only Take A Minute” Kretchmar
Tim “Hey Mike” Zuckert
Robin “Give Me The Objectives” Harper


Coordinating all the manufacturing of the package was done by:

Kim “Okay, Where’s My Film?” Vincent
Marty “Mellow Man” Chan


The great Widget intro ditty and all the sound effects were done by:

John “Bing, Boing, Woopa, Galunk” Loose


Widget testing (oh, what a task!) was led by:

Kevin “Scooter” O’Hare
John Ylinen
Marc Meyer

and helped by:

Kurt “Kurt Daddy” Tindle
Rick “I Got This Great Crash“ Acquistapace
Mark Vitello
Keith Meyer
Alan Barton
Cathy Castro
Mike Gilmartin
Joe Longworth
John Landes
Scott Shicoff
Don Horat
Robin Hines
Mike Gonos
Will Ho
Chris Trottier
Brian Smith



This great program was designed by:

Lauren “The Doc Himself” Elliott 


Popup Menu and 3D Buttons by:

Jim “CDEFs” Stout


Special thanks to:

Chad “The Jerky Guy”
Sarah “Wild Thing” Hubbard
Sasha “When Do I Get My Walk?”
Jake “The Marin Dude” Hoelter
Brad “Globetrotter” Post


Widget Workshop and Software Toys for Kids are trademarks of Sim-Business, dba Maxis.