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1781. Chat Transcript

Written on Friday 5 December 2003 at 09:15 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last night's chat with Will Wright, creator of The Sims and SimCity, has been very busy, and many questions were answered. One of them, which was asked a few times, is when CaSIE is going to be released. As reported that's been delayed until January. Here are some other random quotes from the chat:

Q: What inspired you ot create the sims?
A: The simulation dynamics we developed for SimAnt and the writings of Christopher Alexander (A Pattern Language).
Q: Hi Will what is your favorite Sim Game?
A: It's still the original Sims (SimEarth a close second).
Q: Why do you like robots?
A: I think robots teach us more about humans than about technology. They are in essence attempts to model human abilities and when we try to build them we learn how amazing we really are.
Q: Have you ever made any families that just accidentally happen to resemble any of your workers? If so I hope you haven't drowned them :-p
A: No comment

You can read the entire chat at this page. Enjoy the read.

1782. CaSIE delayed

Written on Friday 5 December 2003 at 00:52 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

In the chat with Will Wright, which is still on, it was said that CaSIE has been delayed again. Instead of December, it'll be released "some time" in January. A limited group of fansites will get it just before the holidays though. As known, this program to create skins and Sims with, will be available as free download from TheSims2.com. Nevertheless, it's still just a few weeks until the release.

1783. SimDay

Written on Thursday 4 December 2003 at 22:34 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay is pretty big. Besides the chat and the release of Bustin' Out on the GBA (with the press release now showing the right picture), there's the announcement of a chat at WorldSims next Saturday at 12pm (8pm in Britain, 9pm in Europe). It will be about The Sims 2 University, and I'll be attending as well. More from TS2U is another interview, this time with Chris from SimSational. You can read it right here. Just two more things left: one is the next part of the Designer Diary at GameSpot. This time, it's Lucy Bradshaw and Tim LeTourneau talking about the Neighborhood. There's some new info in it, for instance that for their relationship, it matters how close friends live. Here's another new bit:

"A really cool new feature is that after you've built a house, you can pick it up and move it to another lot. If you want to fix up your lonely bachelor with the cute girl (who's a few blocks away) more quickly, well, now you can just pick up his house and make them next-door neighbors."

The fifth part of this diary comes with several screenshots, including 4 of Riverside Neighborhood. You can now also see boats and a rainbow. As if that's not enough, there's a new trailer for GameSpot members (Free registration is required), which shows the fly-through option, through Riverside Neighborhood. You can read the diary here, see the screenshots here and download the trailer here. Finally, this SimDay comes with two new track pieces for the fun house that comes in Makin' Magic. Download both tracks (1.4 Mb in total) from Get Cool Stuff.

1784. New Poll

Written on Thursday 4 December 2003 at 01:16 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As usual, we add a new poll every week. Last week we asked you where your Sims work, and it turned out that most... don't. Nearly 63% of the Sims 'rosebud' their way through life. Are Sims really that lazy, or are you so lazy? Amongst the working Sims, it seems that a dull office is the most popular place, which got 9% (24) of the 254 votes. The rest of the results is at this page. The new poll is about Christmas, which is less than 3 weeks away now. Will your Sims get any presents from you, or not? Vote on the right, or at this page. All the results of old polls, including the one about Christmas last year, can be found in the archive.

1785. Tim LeTourneau Interview

Written on Thursday 4 December 2003 at 01:10 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The British magazine PCZone has had an interview with Tim LeTourneau, senior producer of The Sims 2. Of course the topic of the interview is The Sims 2, but also the reason of the success of The Sims:

"At Maxis we feel the key reason The Sims is so popular with both male and female gamers is because people can easily identify and relate with the Sims and their environment. Players become sucked into this alternative sand box reality, its gameplay based on the key desires we all have in our every day lives. However in the Sims world things are very quirky and fun, we don't have to live with consequence of our actions, good or bad in quite the same way!"

That's only a (very) small bit of the whole article. If you want to read it completely, click here to see it.

1786. Chat with Will Wright

Written on Wednesday 3 December 2003 at 13:10 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Tomorrow's chat has already been announced: it will be a chat with Will Wright, the brain behind the Sims and SimCity. The chat time is as usual: thursday, at 3PM PST (which is 11PM in the UK, and midnight in Europe). The amount of people who can attend is limited to 500, and first come first serve: the first 500 product-registered people will be allowed in the chat room. Make sure you get there early. You can go to the chat from the official site's homepage.

1787. Bustin' Out (GBA) Released

Written on Wednesday 3 December 2003 at 13:05 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims Bustin' Out for the GameBoy Advance has been released, and the first review has already popped up: IGN Pocket has posted it, and given the game an 8 out of 10 score. Here's their final conclusion:

"The Game Boy Advance version of The Sims: Bustin' Out isn't quite as extravagant as the upcoming console games because of the standard limitations of the Game Boy platform. But as comparatively limited as the GBA version is, it's still a well-designed, casual game, and it definitely fits the bill for an on-the-go version of one of the most popular game franchises around."

The whole preview can be read here. Some new screenshots of the game can be found at GameSpot: click here to see those. You can read the press release about the game shipping at the official site, on this page to be precise. Note that the box shot shown there currently is wrong (The Sims Deluxe instead of the GBA box).

1788. New Donation File

Written on Tuesday 2 December 2003 at 00:52 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After having no new files for 3 months, we can now provide a new donation file again: a new Lovebed made by Sumit. You can download it by donating first. We really need the donations right now - the amount of traffic has nearly doubled last month, and it's cost us more money than we received from advertising and donations in November. All small bits are appreciated. If you donate this month, you'll be able to download this file. More information about the file can be found right here. Everybody who donated in October or November will receive an e-mail from me shortly, with the username and password to this file, because they didn't receive any donation files. Please donate!

1789. TS2U Special: Final parts posted

Written on Tuesday 2 December 2003 at 00:05 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

I've posted the final two articles of the Sims 2 University special. One of them was posted yesterday, but due to a misconfiguration in the database it was truncated (I never expected to write articles this big when programming this site!). Anyway, it's posted completely now, as well as the final article which discusses the future of the Sims. The other one is about Maxis web hosting, and that can be read right here. The final page is over here. I hope you enjoyed this special. If you haven't read the rest yet, I suggest you read it from the start by clicking here.

1790. Sims 2 Neighborhood Screeenshot

Written on Sunday 30 November 2003 at 14:26 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

EA Games has released a new screenshot of The Sims 2. This time, it contains a picture of Riverside neighborhood, which was shown at The Sims 2 University. You can see it (in full-size, it's not bigger unfortunately), below: