#sims 4 assassin challenge

[ligayawhims]

🕷 The Sims 4 Assassin Challenge 🔪 A ghost. A weapon. You don’t exist.

You weren’t born — you were made. To erase problems. To clean up the mess. No name. No trace. No mercy.

Your Sim is the thing they call when everything else fails. You’re not here to make friends. You’re here to finish the job.

🖤 A brand new (well... kinda) Sims 4 challenge that I think you'll love.

✨ Watch it unfold: here 🔗 Doc link: here

@sims4challenges @ts4challengehub @ts4challengecollection @ts4challengedirectory

[stereo-91]

- ASSASSIN'S CREED UNITY SET 2 - Parisian City Items for The Sims 4

AVAILABLE FOR FREE NOW!!!

Hiii Everyone.

Me and @annadedanann working NON-STOP over the last month, learning, fixing, and creating a lot of new stuff that historical simmers are going to love. Me and Anna are both very excited to announce that we have completed our second set which is now available!

Each item has been taken from various buildings in Assassin's Creed Unity and redesigned to fit into the Sims 4 as build/buy objects. We hope these items will allow simmers to broaden their creativity and show off their building skills.

Our new set is now available on our brand new Patreon page as we wish to share our work on a broader scale of websites and share our work on a wider spectrum.

Total of 53 individual items in this set.

With at least 3 or more swatches

All base game compatible

FREE LINK BELOW:

We're here if you have any questions.

 We hope you enjoy building as much as we do !!

AnniQ & Stereo-91

[asoutherngothic]

Little Family of Four.

Finally got my game to stop freezing when it speeds through the night!! Seline is a blonde now and older, Wynter is the next gen sim as well.

[m-o-o-n-c-o-o-k-i-e]

Hello Everyone !

I created this account mainly to talk about video games and post my content of video games here. I've never been much of a social media person, but I still want to interact with fellow gamers.

I have a previous blog where I have some writing content, titled Ninlil winds, but I won't post there anymore.

Comment what games you like and any recommendations!

[rottenshotgungames]

No more waiting, let’s talk about what y’all are here to see

Footfall Devlog 4

This Devlog will be covering the basics of what Footfall is and the challenges of making a game so heavily inspired by immersive sims.

So, without further ado:

What is Footfall?

Footfall is an occult-industrial stealth-action rpg inspired by Dishonored and Mistborn. It aims to emulate the systemic ecosystem and emergent gameplay of immersive sims, particularly the fast, creative, movement-centric gameplay of Dishonored.

If this sounds interesting to you, the free playtest is live! You can find it on itch at https://rotten-shotgun-games.itch.io/footfall-playtest

Genre Convention

If you’re interested in Footfall I assume that you’ve played stealth-action games before: Dishonored, Assassin’s Creed, Gloomwood, Sekiro, Metro, etc. If you have, you know that there are generally two categories of stealth mechanics present in any given game

Player tools & indicators (e.g. Thief’s light gem, Dishonored’s stealth kills)

Enemy AI (e.g. The xenomorph in ALIEN: Isolation changing up their search patterns based upon your actions)

These two categories are mostly separated by longevity. Player tools and indicators focus very much on short term actions and consequences that influence the long term consequences of the enemy AI—I’m including the state of unconsciousness or death as a “long term consequence.” Because the first category tends to (mechanically) impact the second more than vice versa—and because this would be a VERY long essay if I talked about both in detail—we’re gonna be covering the player side of stealth today.

The Indicators

An Indicator in a stealth game informs the player when they’ve been spotted and/or how close they are to being spotted. Some stealth games have a few Indicators that track or reveal different things (e.g. The three lightning bolts in Dishonored tell you how aware a certain enemy is toward your presence and location, and the upgraded Dark Vision lets you see enemy Vision Cones, and guards will yelp and say things when they see a body you left behind. All three of these are Indicators). There are two general categories that Indicators fall into:

Hard Indicators—distinct visual trackers, particularly a UI element (e.g. the motion tracker in ALIEN: Isolation).

Soft Indicators—Narrative elements that convey information in a manner that is less precise than Hard Indicators (e.g. the sound made by your actions in AMNESIA: The Bunker).

While most videogames with a stealth mechanic incorporate both kinds of Indicator to some extent, TTRPGs are a bit different. The more tactical subset of this medium often attempts to provide player characters with a plethora of options for solving problems and overcoming tasks, among these being stealth—but almost every one of these games uses solely Soft Indicators. What do I mean by this? Well, think about D&D 5e’s stealth: D&D has no facing rules, no rising gauge of enemy awareness—hell the only semi-Hard indicator is light level, but that’s pointless because of the non-rarity of Dark Vision. There’s exactly two TTRPGs that I can think of which contain Hard Indicators, that being Blades in The Dark and Black Seven (both of which are really cool) but their indicators are both more long-term and therefore fall into my arbitrarily designated Enemy AI portion of stealth mechanics.

Hard Indicators are crucial to giving the player a sense of control in a stealth game, watching the numbers go up and down in direct response to your actions is the foundation of the experience (and just failing one Stealth check as a transition into full-blown combat discourages wide-spread use of stealth anyway). I decided to include two major Hard Indicators in Footfall:

Facing. This one was a no-brainer, Footfall already has a physics engine that would massively benefit from facing rules, it’s no huge leap to describe how your facing impacts your Line of Sight.

Notice. Notice is a riff on the classic stealth tracker (e.g. Dishonored’s lightning bolts, Gloomwood’s huntsman eye colors) that measures how aware nearby enemies are to your presence and actions, combined with the player-centric elements of THIEF’s light gem. This has led to a more generalized resource, measuring the awareness of all nearby enemies, influenced almost entirely by the individual player’s actions. It ranges from 0 (unnoticed) to 3 (spotted).

A consistent question I’ve gotten asked is, “Why did you make Notice a player resource, rather than something tracked by individual enemies?” Firstly, tracking that kind of resource on an enemy-by-enemy basis is hellish for a GM. Secondly, and possibly even more importantly, making Notice a player resource makes it feel like they have control over their own ability to stay hidden. If it’s a number ticking up and down on their character sheet, then it’s something they’ll pay more attention to and attempt to exercise control over/capitalize upon more readily . . . so long as they have the tools to do so, of course.

Tools

There are, generally speaking, two types of stealth-interactive tools:

Maintaining tools

Capitalizing tools

Maintaining tools help you to maintain or regain your hidden status. Think the lockers in Outcast or crouching in everything. These tools make stealth feel interactive and . . . well, functional. If you don’t have the basic ability to hide, how are you supposed to engage with stealth gameplay? The balancing act with Maintaining tools is in making them strong enough that Stealth feels viable, but not so powerful that the game becomes too easy or other options are immediately discarded. These take quite a few forms in Footfall, the most basic being Line of Sight and environmental interactions (e.g. Cover, Hidden Terrain, Darkness) that prevent you from needing to make a Stealth check or slowly reduce Notice over time. Some Gifted powers are also categorized as maintaining tools, particularly the base powers of Passage, Possession, and Shadows.

Capitalizing tools allow you to take advantage of your hidden status. The most common example is the Stealth kill/knock out. Capitalizing tools make stealth feel worth it, they’re a reward for engaging in this style of gameplay. In Footfall the only explicit Capitalizing Tool is the Coup de Grace, an enhanced Attack that’s far more likely to kill/knock out your opponent in one blow; however there are a million-and-one other reasons to maintain stealth, such as the danger of direct combat, the increased freedom of power usage, the penalties from Enemy Awareness, and the Downtime penalties from killing people (some of this will be covered in the next Devlog).

This brings us around to an underrated topic when discussing Stealth TTRPGs:

Centralization

We can talk all we want about the conventions of the Stealth genre, about the specific implementations of common mechanics and mechanical types, but it’ll only ever be useful insofar that such mechanical theory informs how players interact with the game.

The end-goal here is centralization. Your stealth mechanics, where they do exist, need to impact and influence every part of rules and play. Even if your players aren’t engaged in Stealth, that decision needs to be put in context of and conversation with Stealth gameplay.

If I’m not constantly thinking about the light I’m in and the sound I’m making, I’m not playing Thief.

If I’m not constantly working to get to higher ground and hidden terrain so that I can ambush enemies, I’m not playing Assassin’s Creed.

If I’m not thinking in relation to Stealth, I’m not playing a Stealth game.

Self Promo

Hey y’all, sorry about the long wait on this one. The playtest is finally public, and we’re halfway through talking about stealth! The next devlog is gonna be about Enemies, which are a whole can of worms.

If you wanna check out my other games, and get updated when major changes come to the Footfall playtest, follow me on Itch! If you're just looking for more Footfall status updates, or want to have an impact on the design, you can always join my public Discord. If you want more devlogs, and more rpg design talk, follow me here or on twitter.

Have a great night and a great day.

[simlicious]

My game recommendations

I had a reblog in my drafts folder for a couple of days to keep working on it and when I was done I saw that the original poster sadly deactivated reblogs on their post. They lovingly suggested that simmers should indulge in other games too, and I couldn't agree more. It is a special feeling to dive into a new game, learn new mechanics, and have a very different experience from the last game you played. I really put a lot of work into my answer, so I decided to make a new post for it.

I'm a simmer and a gamer (simming since 2000), gaming since 1994 or so. I used to play Everquest II way back when and dabble in Elder Scrolls Online but I quit for Baldur's Gate III which has me obsessed for months now, highly enjoyable. Sims 3 has fallen a few steps on my top 10 list in recent years, but I use it as a creative outlet anyway and do not tend to judge it against other games much. I do judge Sims 4 though, which is a sad state of affairs. I can have fun in it if I spend the time in CAS, or for the first 6 hours in a new expansion - but it's just too expensive for its little value, especially compared to other games on this list.

City Builder/Automation games:

Factory Town: super chill cozy vibe, automate logistics for your pixel-people town. Lovely game

Timberborn: build a town for cute beavers!

Farthest Frontier: a nice city simulation with some logistics and events such as raiders invading the town

Satisfactory: one of the most ambitious automation games, with amazing graphics, for people who like to puzzle, analyze/calculate, and really use their heads while gaming. I like to play it as a challenge and see how far I can take my spaghetti conveyor belts!

Frostpunk: a harrowing/grim atmosphere, dystopian, make hard choices for your town

Simulation games:

Roller Coaster Tycoon and Planet Coaster: I love building super scary rollercoasters and then riding them and trying to get people in the park to ride them too

Strategy games:

Anno 1800: I can spend my entire life in this game it feels, it is engaging and relaxing all at once - love this so much!

Action/adventure games:

Assassins Creed Origins: stunning world, super detailed visuals and fun combat mechanics

Scifi/Exploration

No Man's Sky: At first I thought this was more of a casual game, but prepare for a lot of grinding and long-ish quests. It is fun to discover new plants/creatures and name them!

Survival games:

Raft: great to play with friends too and it has a relaxed vibe but also survival mechanics that keep you engaged

The Long Dark: I love the art style and music so much, the story mode is great, the survival mode can be very challenging depending on settings and it is super immersive. Wrap yourself in a warm blanket to play 😂

Subnautica: my favorite game ever before Baldur's Gate 3 dethroned it! It is a game that will guide you to leave your comfort zone time and time again, but you choose when you feel ready for it. You can really follow your own pace and exploring the vast, beautiful, and terrifying depths of this ocean planet is absolutely immersive and filled with surprise and wonder. It has also very chill and calm base-building elements to counteract the scarier moments. The soundtrack is one of the best in terms of evoking feelings/ building atmosphere, do not turn off the sound while playing this game!!!

Storytelling games:

Life is Strange: a classic, it's fun to explore what we could change and what the consequences would be if we could go back in time.

Firewatch: very emotional and touching, leaving a lasting impression

Casual games:

Bridge Constructor Portal (the dark humor is a bonus, it's fun and trains your analytical thinking!)

Carcassonne (like the tabletop game, chill puzzle game)

Simulacra (you uncover a mystery on a phone, interesting idea!)

Retro Games:

My favorite old/retro game would be Black & White (from 2001), which I played when it originally came out, I loved it so much! The free camera was revolutionary at the time. You play a god who is powered by worshippers whom you can either provide and care for or reign terror over, and your actions decide your alignment, good, neutral, or evil. You get a creature that you can train (and will be more or less useful to your goals or disrupt them depending on how well you train it). IIRC, you can train the creature either in the story mode or sandbox/skirmish mode and then go back to story mode with a stronger creature. The mouse gestures which activate miracles in the air felt like a revolutionary new idea back then. The game is not available officially anymore, but it is downloadable from some abandonware websites and the community-made patches so it is still playable today! Writing this, I had to reinstall it right away... the nostalgia!

RPGs:

Cyberpunk 2077: it's just iconic, the city energy and car drives are nice, the story is interesting and it feels immersive

The Witcher 3: great quests and story, beautifully crafted open world

Baldur's Gate 3: I could also talk for hours about Baldur's Gate 3. If there is one game out there that everyone should have tried once in their life, it's that one. It really lets you try any strategy you want and did not actually expect to work in a video game, but in BG3, it does. Even cheaty ones like pushing enemies from a cliff or using explosives to blow stuff up. If you got surprise-attacked but have no weapon handy, you can throw a grease bottle at the enemy that can make them slip and fall, and then you can throw your burning torch at it to light everything on fire. You can stack boxes to climb up to reach something (or throw a goblin body onto someone's head, because it's perfectly normal to carry those around with you). You can be sneaky and steal stuff, even rewards from enemies. Don't like fighting? You can talk your way out of most fights if your character has the necessary skills and still complete quests that way. 95% of NPCs have something to say, and if you click them again, they will have another line. The narrator is awesome. The companions have so much character, the banter is great and every character has its own story arc and goal, the voice acting is phenomenal all around. Definitely get the talk-to-animals skill and use it on all animals, you'll have hilarious conversations! It's worth every penny, even if it's not on sale (and I hardly ever buy a game at full price, so that is saying a lot). Thanks for reading, I hope you feel inspired to try some new games! Have fun 😊

[demaciana-sims]

English Version

Creator @demaciana-sims

Introduction In a dystopian future where megacorporations control everything, society is divided between the privileged technological elite and the renegades surviving in neon-lit alleys. In this challenge, you will build a cyberpunk dynasty and defy the system over ten generations. Choose your path and try to survive in this high-tech, low-life world.

Legacy Version - Cyberpunk Dynasty

General Rules:

Each generation must follow a predetermined storyline and complete specific objectives.

No money cheats allowed (except for bug fixes).

Mods and CC are allowed, but the legacy’s progress must be earned honestly.

The legacy home must start with a cyberpunk aesthetic and may evolve over generations.

Each heir must follow the profession or lifestyle set for their generation.

The challenge ends in the tenth generation when the final revolution occurs.

Generation 1: The Renegade Hacker "The system is corrupt and must be torn down. But first, I must survive."

Start as a young adult Sim with no money and living on the streets.

Reach level 10 in the Programming skill.

Earn money exclusively through illegal means (hacking, infiltration, or the black market - freelancer allowed).

Never work for an official corporation.

Have at least one child to continue the legacy.

Generation 2: The Street Racer "The asphalt is my playground, and my bike is my heart."

Reach level 10 in the Handiness and Fitness skills.

Participate in all possible underground races (use imagination and simulated events, such as parties and competitions).

Never have a fixed job.

Have a forbidden romance with someone from high society.

Have at least one child.

Generation 3: The NetRunner "The networks are infinite, and I am their master."

Develop Programming and Media Production skills to level 10.

Work as a streamer or security hacker.

Create a digital empire and accumulate at least 100,000 simoleons.

Have a personal feud with a corporate elite member.

Have at least one child.

Generation 4: The Biomechanical Engineer "The fusion between man and machine is the next step in evolution."

Reach level 10 in Robotics and Science skills.

Work as a Scientist or Freelance Engineer.

Create at least three Servos (or custom robots via mods).

Genetically modify your children (using cheats to change appearance may be allowed in this generation).

Have at least one child.

Generation 5: The Cyber Gladiator "Fighting is my life. Winning is my destiny."

Reach level 10 in the Fitness and Charisma skills.

Work as an Athlete or participate in illegal fights.

Never refuse a duel or fight.

Have multiple relationships but never marry.

Have at least one child.

Generation 6: The Digital Artist "Reality is limited. The virtual is infinite."

Reach level 10 in the Painting and Media Production skills.

Work as a Painter, Freelance Designer, or Digital Influencer.

Create a personal brand and become famous (reach at least 3 fame stars).

Never have a traditional home – live in futuristic apartments.

Have at least one child.

Generation 7: The Corporate Agent "If you can't beat them, join them. And then destroy them from within."

Work in the Business career and reach the highest level.

Manipulate and betray allies to climb the corporate ladder.

Live in a luxurious mansion financed by questionable practices.

Have a child but hide them from the world to avoid making them a target.

Generation 8: The Revolutionary "The people need a leader. And I will be that leader."

Reach level 10 in Charisma and Logic skills.

Work in Politics or lead an underground rebel movement.

Organize at least five protests and convince Sims to join your cause.

Defeat a corporate elite member (ruin a rival Sim’s finances and reputation).

Have at least one child.

Generation 9: The Cyber Assassin "The city belongs to the strong. And I am the strongest."

Train Fitness and Programming skills to level 10.

Work as a Freelancer on secret missions (use imagination for assassination and espionage contracts).

Never have a permanent home – live in hiding.

Betray someone important.

Have a child without the world knowing.

Generation 10: The Cyber Messiah "The cycle ends with me. Time to redefine the world."

Combine all previous generations' skills and max them to level 10.

Discover and reveal the corporations' ultimate secret (invent a grand conspiracy).

Take down the greatest enemy of the legacy, freeing the city from technological oppression.

Create a new world where Sims can live free from corporate control.

The challenge ends when your Sim finally eliminates the megacorporations’ influence and ushers in a new era.

Special Rules:

Nocturnals: Sims cannot go outside during the day (except for essential work or missions).

Restricted Technology: Certain advancements are exclusive to the elite, so you can only acquire specific high-tech items after completing challenges.

Corporate Corruption: If your Sim allies with a corporation, they lose part of their autonomy, having to follow strict rules.

Biomechanical Modifications: Your Sim can choose to install cybernetic implants (represented by uniquely acquired skills or traits).

Conclusion This challenge will test your survival skills and creativity in a cyberpunk world. Choose your path, fight the corporations or become one of them, and see if you can leave your mark on digital history! Are you ready for the revolution?

[ladyravenjadethe2nd]

Playing the Zoldyck family challenge in the sims 4

So while playing the extreme violence mod I found out if you use rip out heart you keep the heart and you can sell it for 10,000 dollars.

This makes being an assassin so much more fun because I don't have to cheat the money in for a hit if I use that method.

As the Zoldycks are famous I like to make them so with the acting career as well.

I usually start with Zeno as a young adult. He needs to find a wife, have Silva, push Silva into insane leaves of skill building, build his fortune, make the family manor, gather a club of skilled butlers to do his bidding and of course make it to the top of the actor career without getting caught killing.

I think it's fun to have him travel light during the young adult stage of his life. He spends a week in one world in a tent making tons of money killing people, then next week in another world. During the traveling time of his life he can collect rare things and try to meet his wife.

I like to find him a wife that has the klepto trait and have her help build the fortune that way.

Zeno needs to stay alive though 5 grandchild so I may use something to make him live longer. Sometimes I'll even have him become a vampire once he is an elder just so he sticks around.

Zoldycks live a long while after all.

Silva needs to do very well as a child, make no friends, and always be focused on skills and killing though he doesn't have to reach pure perfection. Killua is the one that will be using the families aspiration points to ignore sleep his whole childhood so that he learns everything as fast as possible.

Kikyo needs to be at least a level 5 actor and killed a fair few people before I let her retire to have babies.

Illumi will be much the same as Silva, but he gets the crazy trait and makes 1 friend that being Hisoka.

Milluki is the first breck of the mold. He learns no athletic skills, but gets all the mental ones. He makes everything you can with programing and robots although he goes into the business career. He's taking all the family paperwork on after all.

Killua like I said gets pushed stupidly hard. I give him potions of no sleep as a toddler and a child to make sure he hits all milestones, skills, and aspirations as he can. We the only thing left for him to learn as a child is aspirations that need you to have friends I'll move him out and into Gon's household that I will make for him.

Alluka will have been born under a dark lay line and kept in the basement.

Kalluto is being raised as is normal for a Zoldyck.

You can keep going with the Zoldycks after that or switch to Killua and play his life with Gon at his side.

It's one of my favorite families I've played in the sims.

[smoshgoshbefosh]

October 26 plz :)

Just in case y'all were curious, the spreedsheet maker is at it again because I've got one for all the birthdays I've completed. Save for maybe the first few.

What Smosh Videos were Posted on Your Birthday?

2007:

The Haunting- Smosh Main

2008:

No videos October 26

2009:

No videos October 26

2010:

No videos October 26

2011:

No videos October 26

2012:

Ultimate Assassin's Creed 3 Song- Smosh Main (ICONIC BRO)

Best and Worst VG Halloween Costumes (Gamer Nation)- Smosh Games

Sohinki's Obama Impersonation (Raging Bonus)- Smosh Games

2013:

Link Is Actually Kanye West- Smosh Pit

Hunting Black Mask (Arkham Origins Pt. 1)- Smosh Games

Killing Crocs (Arkham Origins Pt. 2)- Smosh Games

Riddle Me This (Arkham Origins Pt. 3)- Smosh Games

2014:

Rooftop Racing GTS Deleted Scenes- Smosh Games

2015:

Seven Second Challenge!- Smosh Pit

Lasercorn Finally Snaps (Maricraft)- Smosh Games

2016:

Every Horror Movie Ever- Smosh Main

Filming Our Death in Outlast 2 (Press Start)- Smosh Games

2017:

Pumpkin Carving Challenge (Squad Vlogs)- Smosh Pit

Joven Crashes into The Nile (Operation: Open World)- Smosh Games

2018:

Halloween Just Dance 2019 (Game Bang)- Smosh Games

2019:

No videos October 26

2020:

Every Movie Night Ever- Smosh Main

2021:

Try Not To Laugh 81 (Simon Says)- Smosh Pit

My Date With The Chosen (The Sims 4: Bachelorette Challenge)- Smosh Games

2022:

We Pranked Our Friend with a Surprise Exorcism (Idiots Present)- Smosh Main

2023:

We Watched Twitches for the First Time- Smosh Pit

Cozy Pumpkin Carving Stream (Live)- Smosh Games

[danielleplays]

Hiya, I am coming here because of billionaires ruining certain social media.

I love games and want to connect with people. I am also going to start posting games I play and challenges/stories I am doing.

Games I play

Sims 4

Stardew valley

Animal crossing

Dragon age

Wylde flowers

Clanfolk

My time at portia

Assassins creed

Skyrim

Cosy games in general

Lots more I just can think of them all

Come chat about video games 😁

[afearlesspaperairplane]

Media I Consumed in 2025

May

Movies:

Sinners (4/5) My crush on Michael B Jordan grows with every film.

Novocaine (3/5) It was a silly, goofy action movie. It was exactly what I asked for.

Books:

Heir of Fire (4/5) If it wasn't for the last 40 pages, this would have been a 3 star read.

Queen of Shadows (4/5) Finding out your ship is no longer canon hurts.

TV Shows:

Grey's Anatomy S21 (3/5) I want to stop watching this show sososososososososo bad, but every season finale puts my fave characters at risk in a cliffhanger and I hate it :)

The Last of Us S2 (5/5) I need Season 3 soooooooo bad!

See below for January - April

April

Books:

Scarred by Emily McIntire (2/5)

The Third Gilmore Girl (5/5)

Crown of Midnight (4/5)

TV Shows:

Nobody Wants This S1 (4/5)

The Pitt S1 (5/5)

Movies:

Y2K (3.5/5) I was 5 when Y2K happened....I would have died if this was real.

Finding Nemo (5/5)

Video Games

Sims 4 Black Widow Challenge (My sim killed 23 spouses to build her McMansion!!)

Sims 4 1-Tile Challenge

March

Books:

Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow (5/5)

One Dark Throne By Kendra Blake (3.5/5)

Sunrise on the Reaping (5/5)

TV Shows:

Adolescence (5/5)

Apple Cider Vinegar (4/5)

Movies:

Cats Don't Dance (5/5) This flopping at the box office in '97 is a travesty, tbh

Mickey 17 (4.5/5) I'm so glad Robert decided to act and not become like a business man or something. So fucking talented!

Wicked (5/5)

February

Books:

Throne of Glass (4/5)

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn (3/5)

TV Show:

Zero Day (3/5)

Movies:

Anora (3.5/5)

The Substance (2/5)

Beautiful Disaster (.5/5) That is a half star rating. Not a 5 star. A half star. Thank you for listening.

Companion (4/5)

Emilia Perez (yikes)

Flow (10000000000000000000/5) I want friends like these

January

Books:

The Assassin's Blade (3.5/5)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (4/5)

Movies:

Wicked (5/5)

Sonic 3 (4/5)

A Real Pain (3.5/5)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (4/5)

[queenofalllcats]

Here is my schedule for this week. Come and hang out if you'd like. And have a safe and Happy New Year!!! May your 2023 be better than your 2022!

[p1x1e-sims]

 The news he heard that day was weighing on him particularly heavily, but Paul’s spirits were lifted as he found his family in the sitting room when he arrived home. Sam and Teddy were giggling as they played some sort of clapping game, blissfully unaware of everything around them. While Eva was paying uncharacteristically close attention to them. 

  “Well,” He kept his voice down and his wife kept her eyes trained ahead. “I suppose you’ve heard all about it by now.”

  “I don’t live in a cave, Paul,” Eva scoffed. “Everyone in town has heard. The mans been dead over a week now, apparently.” 

  “Germany and Britain are already making calls to action.”

  “I don’t see what that has to do with us.”

  “We’re next, Eva, no doubt.” Paul rubbed the bridge of his nose, dreading what was to come. 

  His wife still refused to look at him. “I’m sure they won’t need to take every man.”

  “They might, and I want you to be able to face that.”

  Eva’s voice was suddenly tight and constrained, as if she were holding back tears. “One man shot and suddenly the whole world is ready to go to war. I can’t fathom it.”

  “No one does, dear. But I can’t sit aside and do nothing.”

  “Well, I suppose your sons will understand even less than I do, when I have to tell them how their father died for a cause he never truly understood, much less one he believed in.” 

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[rottenshotgungames]

I’ve spent three years working on a game about motion

Footfall Devlog 1

It’s really hard for me to talk about my games. It’s even harder to talk about something I’ve been keeping so close to my chest for so long, but it’s time to do so.

This Devlog will be covering the basics of what Footfall is and the first few challenges of making a game so heavily inspired by immersive sims.

So, without further ado:

What is Footfall?

Footfall is an occult-industrial stealth-action rpg inspired by Dishonored, Assassin’s Creed, and Bloodborne. It aims to emulate the systemic ecosystem and emergent gameplay of immersive sims, and particularly the fast, creative, movement-centric gameplay of Dishonored.

You play as Gifted of the Watchman, the god of stories and action. You are functional demigods, arcane in nature and forever part of a great cosmic play of chaos and change.

Some basics about how the game is played before going forward:

You get 3 Action Points at the beginning of your turn, each action point representing a period of 2 seconds.

Movement is measured in ~3 foot increments labeled "Strides." These are about the average length of a walking stride, and tend to be measured with one's arm.

You get powers which move you and others in interesting and unique ways (e.g. teleporting, creating portals, time manipulation, etc.)

Designing a Tabletop ImSim: or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Physics Engine

This game is, first and foremost, a stealth-action game, as such one specific thing was very important to get right: movement. My most important design goal, from the beginning, was to create interesting systems that interact in cool ways, particularly in regards to movement (otherwise, the stealth would just be boring and the action wouldn’t be bombastic enough). Generally speaking, there are a few ways to do movement in TTRPGs:

Narrative abstraction (PBtAs). The strength of this one lies in its lack of necessity of maps, which is not a strength particularly necessary for a game where movement mechanics are a core pillar.

Landmark-defined zones (ALIEN RPG and Celestial Bodies). This option’s strength also lies in its abstraction. You can have tactical combat and actual movement mechanics, but you don’t need codified distances (just a big rock that tells you where you are).

Short grid-based movement based on character stats (Tactics RPGs like Fire Emblem). The strength here is in the tactical importance of moving even one tile. Moving *feels* important because you get to do so little of it in one round, and it makes each tile moved feel like a long distance.

Simplified but simulatory grid-based movement (D&D). The strength of this system is, generally speaking, how thorough yet digestible it is. You’re given jump mechanics, falling mechanics, running mechanics, and they’re all simple enough that you can (usually) remember how they work without opening the book. The issue is that they don’t tend to be very interactive—“Yay, I can jump across a 10-foot gap without that impacting anything other than my positioning. Yay.”

Without beating around the bush, none of these options appealed to me for this project. Option 4 came the closest, but the issue with it is the same as with all of them: these movement systems tend to be very . . . “confined” to only affecting positioning, whether narratively or tactically. I pretty quickly realized that I had one option in front of me, make something I had never seen before:

5. A tabletop physics engine.

First thing’s first, I laid out a few key goals for my physics engine:

Strive for playability, not accuracy. People aren't computers, I don't want you to have to perform complex calculations constantly (unless you want to and therefore choose to).

Interactivity and impact. Even if those decisions aren't codified in the physics engine itself, I want the physics to inform multiple gameplay decisions through its interactions with other systems.

Flexibility of simulation. This is a physics engine, if it breaks when someone tries to jump (which it won't) then it's not working very well, is it? People should be able to toy around with it and get cool interactions out of it without it suddenly turning into a hell of, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN DRIVING A CAR KILLS ME???"

Pretty simple stuff altogether, right? . . . right?

Alright, so what went wrong the first time? Well, I took the last point too far, to the point that I shirked the golden rule: "Strive for Playability, not Accuracy." It would be impossible to accurately model how gravity works in real life without a single round of physics-heavy combat taking 4 hours, which may be your jam but definitely isn't mine. The first version of the physics engine included such awful rules as:

Ground acceleration to model running - "If you move in a direction using 1 action point, and continue moving in the same direction with the following action point you begin to sprint. Your sprint will continue as long as you keep following up one movement with another in the same direction. Your movement speed is considered to be double its base amount and any attacks made with a bow or powder arm that target you have a minor disadvantage to hit if your last action point on your turn was spent sprinting." This was just . . . way too confusing and difficult to track, to the point that it actively disincentivized going fast.

Just straight up incorrect gravitational-acceleration math - It's still not wholly accurate, but I tried for way too long to make it wholly accurate.

An attempt to model fall-damage based upon Momentum - People accelerate downward faster than most people think they do. You will fall about 96 feet (over 29 meters) in a matter of 2 seconds. 1 Action Point. Yeah, there's just no calculating fall damage without relying solely on distance or some over-complicated math that still relies on distance.

Listed out, specific momentums that add damage to your strikes - "When an object or creature lands a strike while in motion, the energy imparted onto their target deals additional damage. If you have a momentum equal to or greater than 24 feet per Action Point before making an attack with a melee weapon, you deal an additional d4 of damage on your strike. If you have a momentum equal to or greater than 48 feet per Action Point before making an attack with a melee weapon, you deal an additional d8 of damage on your strike instead. If you have a momentum equal to . . ." God, this was so stupid of me. It's a really simple formula now: "When making an attack, for each 4 Strides per Action Point of Momentum a creature has in the direction of their target (if the target is in some combination of directions, such as Forward and Left, use the higher of the two) they deal an additional point of damage."

There were more, but it's really not worth going on and on.

Upon revising the physics engine, which was part of a whole system overhaul in the year of our lord 2022, I had one goal: "Simplify the math without simplifying the impact." Which, as you can probably tell from the second to last bullet of the prior list, I did.

The physics engine, as it is, is actually quite simple in practice. You can read the whole thing if you decide to grab the free playtest (which will be releasing soon, just have to finish up some final adjustments and get some art in), but for now I present to you . . .

The Footfall Physics Engine Quick Reference

Momentum: Strides moved in a direction since the beginning of your last Action. Momentum is directional (Forward, Backward, Left, Right, Up, Down). You may change facing at the beginning of an Action. Changing facing mid-air costs an Action Point. Move in the direction of and Strides equal to Momentum when in the air.

Gravity: When not standing on solid ground, you fall. Creatures gain 32 Strides of Downward Momentum at the beginning of each Action Point spent falling. Gifted may choose to halve this to 16 Strides.

Concussive Force: +1 Damage on attacks for each 4 Strides of Momentum in direction of Target. When hit by an object, damage die = +1 die size per 7 Strides of Momentum (1d2 at 7, 1d20 at 42). Throwing an object increases its Momentum by 21 Strides.

Fall Damage: When you hit the ground, damage die = +1 die size per 4 Strides fallen (1d2 at 4, 1d20 at 24). +1d20 for each 4 Strides beyond 24. Gifted falling at 16 Stride Gravity cannot take more than 1d20 Fall Damage.

Wall Damage: When you hit a wall, damage die = +1 die size for each 5 Strides of Momentum beyond 9 (1d2 damage at 9, 1d4 at 14). If damage die > d20, add a new die and start over.

I'm actually really proud of this physics engine. So far, players have LOVED playing around with it, and even some fairly math-dense people understood it after looking at the powers section for a little bit. I can't say for certain if I've accomplished all of my goals, and public playtesting may prove that it needs simplified further, but the successes I've had surrounding the physics engine are what told me that taking the effort to design Footfall wasn't a fool's errand. People used to tell me that movement is boring, it's just the thing you have to do to get to the fun stuff; and I feel as though I've proven it can be interesting, digestible, and—above all-else—fun.

It's fun to move yourself forward multiple strides using a power, then launch yourself into the air where you can soar across the battlefield and directly into a specific foe for increased damage. It's fun to have your buddy sit in a momentum-generation-machine constructed with two vertically aligned portals that triple her downward momentum each time she passes through, then watch as she swaps spots and momentums with a giant enemy monster, which you promptly send hurtling into a wall at 18x terminal velocity with your portals. Honestly, it's just fucking cool.

I'm so excited for people to get their hands on it.

Conclusion

Honestly, I have no idea what design lesson to leave you with. The best I can say is this: Fuck the haters. If you have an idea, and you really believe in that idea, follow through. Anything is possible given some time, planning, reflection, and a willingness to revise.

If you think something would be cool, and nobody's made it yet? Make it. Do it, right now. You can, I'm proof. It's gonna be great, I know it.

I believe in you.

Self Promotion

Welp, it's that time again folks. If you wanna check out my other games, and get updated when the Footfall free playtest goes live, follow me in Itch.io! If you want more devlogs, and more rpg design talk, follow me here or on twitter.

You really can't go wrong either way.

[ligayawhims]

The Assassin Challenge

If you love killing sims and story based gameplay, I hope you'd love this one. I also wanted to make my very own challenge for the Sims 4 for so long with only one generation because I can't deal with legacy challenges (it's a me problem).

Sooo without further ado, here's the details and the rules of the challenge.

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You are no one. You don’t exist. You remember only trainings, and harsh consequences if you fuck up. You remember the cold basements, the sound of guns, and 100 different ways to kill people, aliens, vampires or any beings walking on Sim Earth and make it look like an accident. Your teachers had always said that these missions are for the greater good of simkind. It’s always been instilled to you that this is for everyone’s common good. However your good deeds will never earn praise and the people will never know what you’ve done to make the world safe.

By the time you’re a young adult (18) you’re sent off to your first mission. You’ll do everything in your power not to disappoint THEM and not fail the missions entrusted to you.

Rules:

Start out as a Young Adult

You must have a long lifespan on, and you can turn off neighborhood stories for the specific families that we’ll be killing so that neighborhood stories won’t kill them before you do.

You can also create their “Teacher/s”, their relationship must remain professional all throughout the challenge

You can start in someone else’s save file.

Mods like the extreme violence are okay to use!

Place your assassin in a “normal house/apartment” but make sure they have a secret basement or room where they can conduct their research of their potential target or etc.

Traits are up to you.

Your sim may seduce their victim, befriend them before killing them. Let’s make it seem you’re gathering intel that you’re passing on to your other bosses.

Spare NO ONE that would see you. Except dogs, and cats. They have a kid who saw you killing their parents? Who the hell cares? 

All kills should only be done at night or dawn.

For every successful mission your sim will be awarded 10,000 simoleons unless the award is indicated in the mission.

First Mission: The Landgraabs

Your bosses have gathered intel that a business woman in Oasis Springs has been intimidating a few people in the area and forcing small business owners to sell their lands to them so that she can turn the town into a high class one. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is killing Nancy Landgraab and ending her land grabbing ways.

Travel to Oasis Springs, and your sim must not leave or travel to other worlds while they are in this place.

Your bosses will handle the housing expenses but you must choose a house that costs 50,000 simoleons or much less than that. You will receive a 10,000 simoleon allowance.

Do every possible way to be close with Nancy.

Once you have successfully killed Nancy landgraab, give your sim 10,000 simoleons.

You can choose to give your sim a job to make them as “normal as possible”

While hanging out at the Landgraab house your sim learns that Nancy is grooming her son to become her heir and he has grown up to be evil. Be close to Malcom as much as possible (like full 100 friendship bar) to “make him renounce his evil ways.” Go to cas full edit mode and just change him to mean. (I just figured that character growth isn’t linear hehe)

Second Mission: The Corrupt Politicians of San Myshuno

After your first kill, you get sent another mission by the higher ups. This politician and his wife are embezzling funds that were supposed to be allocated for the improvement of the city. This one is a bit tougher as the people you are gonna be killing are highly snobbish and they talk only with people who are as rich or are in the same politician career. Your mission is to infiltrate San Myshuno’s high society and kill Victor and Lily Feng.

Change your hair color, and the way you dress. You’ve sold the house in Oasis Springs and use that money to buy a penthouse. To infiltrate the Feng circle, be a housewife just like Lily Feng but you have to marry someone in the political career. Act as in love as possible with your spouse but you have to divorce them as soon as the mission is over.

Third Mission: The Insecure Lover

Because of your consecutive successful missions, you have been asked to lay low for now. Consider it as a vacation, they said. However, while being in Sulani for just two days you get called back and asked by your teacher to help a friend of hers. This one is a secret one, and it’s off the agency’s records. You don’t really pay attention to television so you don’t really know who Octavia Bailey-Moon was, but apparently her husband is causing her to lose sponsors and gigs. For 20,000 simoleons you’re asked to kill Thorned Bailey so that Octavia can finally live her life.

Go on a vacation to Sulani for a few days, “try” to enjoy your vacation there.

For the mission you’ll have to be in disguise, so you can give your sim a makeover, a plastic surgery or just a hair colour change.

You will then move to Del sol Valley where you’ll kill Thorne Bailey.

You can temporarily be famous because the networking Perk will enable your sim to talk with other celebs.

You will have to seduce Thorne Bailey, but beware of the paparazzis.

Max out your charisma skill.

You have to step out of the spotlight once you’re done with your mission.

Fourth Mission: The Daughter

Your mission is to protect Luna Villareal. Luna is a daughter of a mob boss who has valuable intel against her father’s crimes and the death of their mother. It will take time for her to truly make the exposés so you will use that as a time to build up your writing skill.

Move out Luna Villareal to a house still on Windenburg but away from her father. You must not let her dad visit her and you mustn't answer any calls or invitations from any family member.

She shouldn’t be able to go to school too (or she can sign up for homeschooling with a mod).

Become good friends with Luna before you can start writing her father’s crimes. (No taking photos allowed)

You must reach level 5 of the writing skill before writing the exposés.

You will have to make 10 non-fiction books that will serve exposés against Jacque Villareal.

Find a good friend from a far away world that will act as foster homes for Luna and her brothers once this is all over.

You will have to kill Jacque Villareal as per your superior’s orders.

Fifth Mission: The Treasure

For your sixth mission, you will be sent to Selvadorada to intercept an illegal treasure hunt orchestrated by a group of men. You can create these men in create a sim (Minimum of 2 Max of 5), and you must try to fit in with them as you live together in one rental lot. Find the treasure before they do, or find the treasure with them and kill them before taking the treasure and putting it on a local museum because it belongs to the locals.

Fake your sims identity by taking on a maculine name, use masculine clothes and change your sims voice.

You must be good friends with the illegal treasure hunters before your expedition to find the treasures.

Complete the Archaeology scholar aspiration because a great knowledge in archaeology would help your sim verify the artefacts and outsmart your enemies.

Sixth Mission: The Secret Society

They say knowing too much is not good. Thus, when your bosses had heard about a “Secret Society” in a University, they did not like that one bit. They asked you to monitor and infiltrate the group as one of their members, and apparently you can only do that while in University. So you on your university hats and head to Britechester where you’ll be living in the dorms with stupid, smelly, sleep deprived college students. Then you discover that they just do a bunch of weird stuff!!! They probably only made it a secret because of how embarrassing their robes are.

Attend Britechester university and pick one of their distinguished degrees.

You can make the number of credits less to finish uni faster.

Once you find out it’s just a stupid group, you jsut wanna get out of there and move on to your next mission. However, you actually do make some friends.

So while waiting for your superiors’ orders, you decide to have fun and enjoy university life.

Experience all the club activities and attend every sports event available.

You can even join other activities too.

Make your sim feel normal for once before they move on to the next target.

This sense of normalcy would make them wonder if they deserve it, or if they really have a chance of getting one.

Seventh Mission: The Battle

This battle might be your toughest yet. You’re familiar with corrupt politicians, and it absolutely sickens you that they are sacrificing the good of the many for money. Your target is the mayor of Strangerville who’s receiving bribes from big corporations to conduct harmful experiments. While at the same time your sim struggles to want something normal with their life and settle for once. Then you meet someone, they’re eccentric, amazing and curious and you just imagine spending your life with them. For once you want to run and be with this person.

Enter the military career and reach the covert operator branch.

Bug 10 military personnels, Mayor Ted Roswell and Meridith Rosswell and 5 civilians.

You must complete the Strangeville Aspiration.

Kill the Mother and Mayor Ted Roswell.

After your heroic acts your sim will then move to a world that you want. Don't respond to your boss’ text and etc.

The Peace

You never imagine that you’ll have this life, and you’ll never imagine that you can spend it with a significant other who loves you. Of course you’re looking for spies sent after you every now and then, and you may even kill those who harm your lover, who doesn’t know your life before Strangerville. But in your little home, you’ll eventually find peace.

Settle into the new town normally.

Kill or beat up people who will be rude to your lover as they will be seen as potential threats. Your lover must not know about this.

Join the teaching career.

Your lover will then join the botanist career.

Make sure that your sim will always watch the news channel every night.

Choose an aspiration that your sim will complete.

You can come clean to your significant other about your past actions, or take your secret with you to the grave.

You can choose how to end the challenge, you can have your lovers get married and adopt a child or they can be with just the two of them.

Notes:

If you guys have any questions or have noticed any inconsistencies, feel free to let me know about it!

If you're playing this challenge, tag me in your photos or use #ts4AssassinChallenge in your tags.

@maxismatchccworld @ts4challengedirectory

[bumblingbunny]

The Love and Conquest BC is looking for Love Interests!

Love and Conquest is a Story-Based-On-Gameplay Bachelorette Challenge based on all of the fantasy, romance, isekai stories I love! We’re missing some important characters though and I’m hoping you’ll help. Now that Harlow has found herself in the role of Harmony, we need some other sims to take on the roles of her love interests!

SUBMISSION DETAILS Each love interest should have two versions:

Fantasy: This version should be a character from the dating sim - and unlike Harlow, they won’t know that they’re in a dream! They should have a distinct role in the story and should be fully in character (at least at the start). This is the version that will appear in most of the BC’s story posts.

Real life: At some point Harlow is going to have to wake up from this dream and hopefully her selected partner will wake up with her! These sims will get to live in Harlow’s actual gameplay save - either as her partner or in another role if they don’t win.

Since this post is already too long, check out this one to learn more about Harlow/Harmony. The rest of the submission details are under the cut! Feel free to send me any questions. :)

I’ll be accepting submissions until May 8th! Please tag me in your sim’s post so I know to reblog it. I’m really hoping to get at least 6 sims and will gladly accept any more that I receive.

SUBMISSION DETAILS CONTINUED

All genders are welcome!

I have all of the packs except for the kits.

CC is allowed! Please keep it maxis match or maxis mix.

Supernaturals are allowed for both versions! But also, their supernatural status does not need to be the same for both versions. (For example Harmony is a talented magician while Harlow isn’t.) In the real world save, supernaturals exist but aren’t super common. In the game though, it is normal to see them - except for demons who are supposed to have been sealed away centuries ago. (So any demon in Adoria probably has a disguise.)

With your submission, please include:

Name, pronouns, sexuality and supernatural status for both versions. (These can be different for each version!)

A description of their personality and lifestyle. NOTE: At it’s core, the personalities should be the same for both versions. However, since the fantasy one is in a dating sim, it would make sense for their personality to be exaggerated or buried underneath a bunch of romantic tropes.

The fantasy version can have colorful/unnatural hair and eye colors. The real life version should have realistic coloring - although dyed hair is alright.

The real life version should have at least one everyday outfit, so I can get a feel for their style.

The fantasy version should have 2-4 looks. One everyday look, one daytime party look (this can be the same as the first look if it is dressy enough) and one fancy, nighttime look that they’d wear to a ball. The 4th look is optional and can be used for a work uniform or a disguise or even a big story moment you have in mind for them.

The fantasy version should also fill a distinct role in the story. It can be pretty much anything except for the king or queen of Adoria. Some possibilities are:

Prince or princesses of Adoria (can even be heir to the throne)

Nobles from Adoria, or royalty/nobility from other kingdoms who are visiting for the season

Wizards working for the royal family or the Wizard’s Tower

Knights, merchants, guild leaders, spy masters

Villainesses, assassins, demon lords in disguise

(NOTE: I may slightly change roles or backstories to fit in with the other submissions and create existing relationships between them. For example, if I get a crown prince and a villainess, they will probably start off engaged to each other.)

Feel free to include as little or as much detail as you like! If you have ideas for their story line, how they could meet Harmony, or even just songs that make you think of them - I’d love to hear it! But most of all, if you do decide to submit a sim, I hope you have a lot of fun making them! :)