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Exploring The Sims Franchise through Tumblr

Exploring The Sims Franchise through Tumblr - The Sims is a computer game where players are asked to create and control their own simulated characters in a virtual world known as 'Sims.' The game was first released in 2000, and its success story resulted in other versions of the game being released. The game's premise is to allow humans to go into a computer-simulated world to control characters called Sims. The characters are created and allowed to go about their daily activities without much intervention from the humans playing the game. People can build houses or units for the Sims, control their needs, introduce other Sims into the game, and create connections or relationships.

Expansions to the original game have made it possible for Sims to get jobs and also live with animals, while a game sequel, which I frequently played, "The Sims 3," now includes more complex digitized interactions. Playing with Sims is a lot like a guessing game, controlled by the humans playing the game, as the player is set tasks to buy new tiles on the game board so that they can progress to another level, thus telling funny or boring stories as they control characters. Sims might thrive or starve, live the dream or struggle to reach the top. The game gives human beings a large degree of control over the lives of Sims, and players often derive satisfaction from helping these characters reach their lifetime ambitions, which are carefully pieced together by the player.

History of The Sims Franchise

We proceed with a brief history of the ten-year-old video game franchise The Sims, including some of its most important landmarks and a casual explanation of why the game is so popular. The Sims is a strategic life simulation game that gives players the power to control a virtual household and its Sims, their virtual avatars. The game series was created by Will Wright and published by Electronic Arts.

The Sims was first released in 2000 and was a success because it was the first and only game that allowed players to control the lives of virtual characters intimately, mixing architectural, organizational, and social elements in the right measure. The launch of the expansion packs, many of which dealt with the creation of beauty objects or changes in adult Sims' behavior, was very successful as well. The franchise's initial success was then followed by the release of The Sims 2, which deepened the game and renewed its graphics, allowing the narrative and the customization to reach a whole new level for players. The Sims franchise has received numerous awards and accolades since its inception, including the original game being named one of the most important games of all time.

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❤️ Vatore siblings ❤️

Sims Fan Art By Absgaming

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Okay so I finally got Sims 2 UC working on my MacBook!!! 🎉 It looks sooo good like the graphics are actually decent ngl (though terrain and edges are a bit blurry lol)

BUT like, I was all hyped thinking maybe the dreaded pink flashing wouldn't happen on Mac?? Like Macs are different, right??? NOPE 😭 Pink flashing still came for me like "hey bestie remember me??"

I don't know why this happens on such modern computers. Like my MacBook is FAST and honestly Sims 4 runs flawlessly on it but sims 2? Nah it’s like “I’m gonna ruin your life with cursed textures lol���

Anyway I still love this game so much but omg EA please fix your ancient masterpiece (even though they never will 💀)

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Połowa mnie - Serial The sims 4 Youtube

🎭 Intrygi, tajemnice i emocje! 🎭

Co jeśli Twoje życie, które znasz, jest tylko iluzją? Co jeśli ktoś odebrał Ci to, kim naprawdę jesteś? 🔥

💃 Amaya – dziewczyna, która nigdy nie przestała szukać prawdy. 🩰 Seraphine – zagubiona w świecie, który nie jest jej własnym. ❓ Tajemnicze zaginięcie, sekretna przeszłość i sieć kłamstw, z której nie ma ucieczki...

Odkryj razem z bohaterami mroczne sekrety i zanurz się w historię pełną napięcia, namiętności i nieoczekiwanych zwrotów akcji!

🔗 Obejrzyj pierwszy odcinek tutaj: LINK 🌟 Jeśli lubisz dramaty, tajemnice i emocjonujące historie, to ten serial jest dla Ciebie!

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Creating Buyable Skins: My Attempt 💡

Let me start by saying: I'm not very knowledgeable about this subject, and the way I've understood things might make those who know better laugh. But I hope what I’ve learned can be helpful to someone!

After downloading buyable pajamas from two different creators, I was confused when they said to place the skins in the Skins folder. Why would buyable skins need to go there?

To figure it out, I compared the SkinsBuy and Skins folders and realized a few things:

Buyable skins start with the name of the mesh body and include the body type, gender, and skin tone. Custom skins usually come in three skin tones and body types, but they don't include multiple styles.

Regular skins also start with the mesh body name and gender but add the creator's name and the name of the clothing. This lets creators make recolors of existing skins.

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The step-by-step method I used to create a buyable pajama:

I looked at two sets of buyable pajamas from different creators. Each had CMX files for four body types. I copied the skinny skin file (L300FAsknlgt) and saved it to my desktop.

A nude skin is essential for creating something completely new. You can download the default skins from Moon Sims. For my pajama, I wanted a retro ‘90s style and found inspiration in an old catalog. I didn't worry about the image size or quality too much, as long as it wasn’t blurry - since the in-game resolution is small.

3. I reduced the image colors to 256 and saved it as a BMP. Then, I renamed the file to L300FAsknlgt_aplays_bpj.

The body name (L300FAsknlgt)

My nickname (aplays)

A name for the pajama (bpj)

Finally, I placed the file in the SkinsBuy folder. (I think it might also work in the Skins folder, but I prefer SkinsBuy because it's easier to find textures there.)

And there you have it - my blue pajama!

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Conclusion:

This method is similar to The Sims Creator tool, as it involves recoloring existing skins and renaming them. However, to use this method, you need a buyable skin file in the Skins folder since buyable skins are different (?) I suppose.

If you are looking for buyable skins, I recommend checking out creators like SimsFan and AllSkins. Just remember to read their permissions. I made this purely for personal use =)

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A HUGE Welcome to the Team @Laireen35 creator of our new spot the difference in issue 13. @Oak_Sim_Studios joining our new #Machinima mag due Oct 1st. @MyCupOfCC will be creating some EXCLUSIVE CC for our Readers. @Slayter_x will be joining SupStyleMag and #SUpMag as a writer. We are so excited to be able to have these wonderful simmers as part of our team. We are still looking for simmers to join us on #SupStyleMag and our all new #Machinima Mag coming Oct. If you wish to apply contact us via our website or message on Via DM on #Instagram or #Twitter #TheSims #TheSims4 #TheSims3 #ShowUsYourSims #ShowUsYourBuilds #SUpMag #Simstagram #Gaming #SUpInMedia #SimsBuilds #SimsFans #EA #SimsMagazine #Sims4Magazine #Team #DreamTeam #LetsPlay #simsmachinima #SimsCC #thesimscc #Sims3 #Sims4 #Sims2 #SimsMods #shellchallenge #simmedupmagazine https://www.instagram.com/p/CTZGwkhDHGL/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Lizabeth’s new hair #sims3 #mysim #createasim #simhair #simstagram #simmers #simmer #simsfan #simsfans

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This BIG BOEY is Freg Drizdu. He's the husband and father of one of my families in Test of time. I finally made hot sims with minimal cc.

• fishing •gathering• animal lover •friendly •neurotic

Best skills : making babies with wifie. And sum above mentioned.

STAY TUNED FOR REST OF FAMILY(IES) and sum gag(laugh)worthy pics.

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Finally finished my Cowplant painting from the Sims. #thesims4 #thesims #thesimsfanart #simsfanart #simsfan #cowplant #acrylicpainting #acrylic #painting https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Vh0c2Fxm4/?igshid=11uaqi83nmkqo

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Gameplay Mechanics The Sims Games through Tumblr

Gameplay Mechanics The Sims Games through Tumblr - As the gameplay mechanics of the McKays' Sims are unique in that they are based on prevalent societal conceptions of the material world, yet woven with a distinctive level of flexibility. As such, free will is a monumental part of the gameplay and creating storylines. The game is designed to be playful and flexible; however, the introduction of playful and flexible gameplay means that far-reaching mayhem over the story and the world is possible. The ability to custom-create characters, families, houses, workplaces, towns, and cities, not just in terms of looks and aesthetics but also in terms of a different underlying character creation, comes with an associated large portion of ill will. With the possibility to make choices, there exist the chances of making the wrong choice.

The software uses generative techniques to generate content and is to be experienced alone – many use the game to avoid real-world problems. But, at the same time, The Sims, as a user-generated content platform, promotes rather than challenges traditional stereotypes. The base game is described as a "sandbox" experience. When accessing a friend's game with no add-ons, using the base game, the Sims framework promotes a constructionist interpretation of the world; the vanilla game is described as being, in a sense, policy-producing in its promotion of "the traditional" through the systematization of types from biophysical, social, cultural, ethical, and moral codes, in order to enable a player to conceive in dynamic and consistent games.

Character Creation

Character creation in The Sims is both a very mechanical process and an often reflexive, creative act. Its players adapt a system of menus, sliders, mouth corners, size selectors, and opacity settings to give physical form to their virtual people. Personality is communicated in two methods: by either selecting traits from a list of adjectives and deciding in which order their texts affect their protagonists, or allowing the game to decide the personality from a palette of predetermined percentages. This work involves a cyclical process of adjustment, during which players constantly gesture with their avatars, cycle through all the game's camera settings, change the light, and adjust the visual equivalence to brighten the man's face anywhere. Players steer other aspects of the realization of their Sim's identity using a graphically simulated genetic recombination of two existing Sims. A cursory search also reveals a deeply involved form of creativity in the ways the community of Sims players creates and shares their characters. Sims custom creators share their Sims, often satisfying the TV show or movie style guidelines.

Both the creativity and the control of its material expression are essential to the experience of Sim creation. This process is underpinned by mechanical constraints in the game's architecture. Sliders and percentages that define the virtual body often do not tune individual Sim features in the way that a different game mechanic or external software might. Changing the body type is difficult because the game employs a genetic algorithm in its realization of Sim genetics, and not merely a recombination of physiognomies the player previously created. Consequently, Sims players tend to define the company that the player creates her real self by tampering with some of the game's character creation options, or through game changes and modifications independently created by the player community. Its players, then, describe the Sim related to their logic as a vector of social mechanics, expressing their inclination to build stories with which they have a powerful tool always at their disposal.

Building and Design

Building and Design. Building stuff isn’t actually what the game is about anyway: if the game can be about anything, it’s about building your house and controlling your weird little virtual people. But people use the game to build—and re-enact—lots of things. People build famous landmarks or cities, or recreate their favorite games, or a space marine deathmatch tournament. Then the game switches from being a tactful dig at consumer culture to being tactical. Instead of complaining about the cost of virtual furniture, it competes in the ‘expensive furniture’ Olympics by building more expensive furniture.

The game fosters this. It’s conceptually extremely pernicious and effective in encouraging you to spend your hard-earned money on a few new paintings and some shabby furniture, let me tell you. The game is focused on interior decoration mostly. With the graphics and the underpinning simplification of objects down into all equating to little more than a price, the game is more of an interior decorating game than a game about legitimate architecture. The ease of the platform kind of de-kings me from Creative Tyrant Status as well. If I want to live in an unassailably huge glass and steel box, I can do that in real life, but if I want to live in an old-timey place with carpet and fancy wallpaper, I’m pretty much going to have to get a high-powered job and acquire some taste first.

Life Simulation

The Sim series has always been a part of the niche genre in mainstream life simulation games. Unique to the game is its game-experience nature that does not revolve around competitions or time pressures but rather on simulating real-life experiences. Throughout the series, you grow emotions for your very 'sim,' the doll-like avatar inside the game, emulating life-like relationships and doing daily activities such as shopping and eating just to win a job promotion. The game series makes a dedicated Sims player believe it can actually reflect someone's personality. The player also shares that they use the popular daily tactic, the 100 Baby Challenge, aggressively in the game as a way to check on something they love and ensure the game is still functioning well. Running the challenge will not take up a lot of energy and can also cultivate the fun of elimination.

The appeal of the Sim series brings the 'slow life core' into the hearts of a broad range of cross-generational players. The player shares that even looking at Sims series content is relaxing. 'Just by looking at photos of other people's builds, you can feel how time just flies away.' They add that because the game also goes online, the challenges inside can transform into a 'story' for others to share the joy, and they will also receive more fun works from the community. Since the players of the Sims series can be classified as casual gamers, the response to the screenshots is a response to interactive play, which can satisfy the pleasure of gamers wanting to say, 'I was there... I was the one who composed this performance.' Media reports significant sales on the first day of release for the game and has surpassed the top-selling PC game in history. With grand sales in the US and European markets, it demonstrates that it is the main player at the same time and promotes the continuous development of the scenario expansion pack.

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Fairy home inspiration

Looking on Pinterest as you do, to find some fairy inspiration for the Sims 4

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Bonjour à tous ! Voilà Bery Graouw 🦁🔥 #sims #thesims #sims4 #thesims4 #simsfamily #simsfan https://www.instagram.com/p/B9zHLzpngwL/?igshid=15gmt5zjdid5o

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Połowa mnie - Serial The sims 4 Youtube

🎭 Intrygi, tajemnice i emocje! 🎭

Co jeśli Twoje życie, które znasz, jest tylko iluzją? Co jeśli ktoś odebrał Ci to, kim naprawdę jesteś? 🔥

💃 Amaya – dziewczyna, która nigdy nie przestała szukać prawdy. 🩰 Seraphine – zagubiona w świecie, który nie jest jej własnym. ❓ Tajemnicze zaginięcie, sekretna przeszłość i sieć kłamstw, z której nie ma ucieczki...

Odkryj razem z bohaterami mroczne sekrety i zanurz się w historię pełną napięcia, namiętności i nieoczekiwanych zwrotów akcji!

🔗 Obejrzyj pierwszy odcinek tutaj: LINK 🌟 Jeśli lubisz dramaty, tajemnice i emocjonujące historie, to ten serial jest dla Ciebie!

📌 Polub, udostępnij i dołącz do naszej społeczności! Nie przegap kolejnego odcinka!

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~when sun and moon meet~ Isis 🤍Clary many thanks to @sarina_sims for this inspiration ❤️ It's nice to work together. the pose is from us🥰 . . #sc8bk . . #originalbysc8bk #becreative #thesims #thesims4 #ts4 #mysim #mysims4 #simstagram #simsinlove #simsfan #simslove #simslover #simsgirl #simsgirls #sims4fantasy #ts4fan #ts4girl #ts4love #ts4fantasy #simsedits #edits #art #grafikdesign https://www.instagram.com/p/B9FGwuEI3pS/?igshid=gf3i5c9dn98j