Those Silly Sims

The Sims!

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What do you get when you combine Sim Logic, inspiring TS4 Challenges, a ton of screenshots, a somewhat goofy sense of humor, and some silly puns?  My favorite obsession – SimLit!

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Build 24 houses and various community lots to reconstruct the Willow Creek & Oasis Springs maps, while completing unique goals for each household typically only controlling ‘The Heir’, leaving all other household Sims to live out their lives with no interference whatsoever.

**Completed Story – 6 Generations**

 

**Ongoing Sequel to The Drifters**

 

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Acquire a pen pal for your Sim by collaborating with other SimLit authors.

**Completed Story.  Spanning 2 Generations**

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(Inspired by The Drifter Challenge by Vihisha and Moving on Up by ImaginingMystic.)

Rebuild 24 apartments and various community lots to reconstruct the San Myshuno map during the course of 6 generations, while experiencing all that City Living has to offer.

  (plan to resume playing and writing soon.)

 

I’ve been an avid fan of The Sims since it hit the scenes in February 2000 and have played ever since – starting all the way back with the original Sims.  Now we’ve had our ups and downs, The Sims and I, over the years.  I may even take breaks from it every now and then, but I always come back and there’s always something new to discover.

But despite all those years of playing, there was one thing I hadn’t tried to do with the game – writing.  That all changed back in 2015 when I first started participating in the forums and attempted The Drifter Challenge.  It all began innocently enough with some random posts and before long it evolved into full blown stories.  Now that I’ve taken that dive off the deep end, I doubt I’ll ever be able to play again without turning their funny little lives into stories.

Lately, I’ve found myself wanting to push it even farther by attempting multiple stories at once, so they could be intertwined.   The thought of not only bonding with my main family, but also discovering what’s transpiring in their neighbor’s households, well that’s just too intriguing to resist.  I’m sure it will take some time to get off the ground, but now that I’ve reworked my blog to accommodate such an undertaking, I just might have to take another leap of faith and see what happens!

In case your curious, my first love is the game itself – in all of its zany glory, so I tend to use the game approach to my writings.  In other words, I simply play the game, concentrating on meeting my challenge goals, and take tons of screenshots along the way, all the while observing my little Simmies.  Eventually their little personalities and quirks start to emerge, keeping those in mind, I sift through all the pics until something jumps out that unlocks a character for me, then I begin to write.  While I do have some story arcs that continue through the generations, I just work those in based on what happened naturally in my game.  I use a randomizer for traits, let the game choose all clothing, hairstyles, who comes to visit, etc.  So far this approach has kept each generation different from the next and there’s always something silly to write about!

So without further ado…

I bring you the adventures of my little Simmies – with plenty of puns and Sims logic.

I hope you enjoy!