The Committee to Nuke Elysium

The game, which The Sims creator hopes to have up and running in a year, riffs off of the Sterling short story Maneki Neko.

“He describes a karmic computer that’s keeping a balance of payments between different people, and causing them to interact with each other in interesting ways to improve their lives even though they’re strangers,” Wright told Eurogamer in a new interview conducted at E3 in Los Angeles.

“They earn karmic points that are redeemed by having somebody else help them.”

Wright told Eurogamer that the Sterling-inspired game he’s working on is likely set for launch on tablets, smart phones and social networks such as Facebook.