The Sims Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/the-sims/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:24:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.digitalurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Dulogosm-1.png The Sims Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/the-sims/ 32 32 The Sims 3: Building a House https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/06/17/sims-3-building-house/ https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/06/17/sims-3-building-house/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:24:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1291 The Sims 3 is a strategic life simulation game engine in the popular and critically acclaimed The Sims franchise, originally created by Maxis. The Sims 3 allows players to seamlessly...

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The Sims 3 is a strategic life simulation game engine in the popular and critically acclaimed The Sims franchise, originally created by Maxis. The Sims 3 allows players to seamlessly explore the world outside their homes with every lot synched to the main neighborhood time. As ever with the Sims series it is focused on building up your own section of the simulation with the ability to construct your own house. LuigiRules has uploaded an intriguing two part guide to creating a house in the Sims 3:

Part 1



Part 2


We really like the ability of anyone to unleash their inner architectural skills in the Sims 3, below is SimsAustrias first house build:

Simulation games are becoming increasingly sophisticated and the Sims 3 deserves a closer look in terms of the structure, the intelligence behind the simulation and the ability to design and build complex architectural structures.

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]]> https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2009/06/17/sims-3-building-house/feed/ 21 The Sims Architecture – Building a House https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/05/13/sims-architecture-building-house/ https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/05/13/sims-architecture-building-house/#comments Sun, 13 May 2007 11:05:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2124 Yesterday we looked at SimCity for the Nintendo DS and the ability to create a sprawling metropolis on the hand held console. Taking the concept further and moving it into...

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]]> Yesterday we looked at SimCity for the Nintendo DS and the ability to create a sprawling metropolis on the hand held console. Taking the concept further and moving it into suburbia is life simulation computer game The Sims. Created by game designer Will Wright, The Sims is the best selling game in PC history (Wiki – The Sims), and as is common nowadays comes with its own building tools to create your own in game architecture.

YouTube user chrispycrunchy86 has posted a series of videos detailing how to build a house in The Sims. The movie below illustrates the construction and architecture of House Type 1:

As with many game sandboxes the tools are easy to use and within a short time you are able to built a unique structure. In 2002 Maxis shipped The Sims Online, with an online chat system, custom avatars and the ability to build it could in some ways be compared to Second Life. Interestingly the game was not a success. In today’s world of social networks and Wikinomics (see our book review) The Sims online may of been before its time…

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]]> https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/05/13/sims-architecture-building-house/feed/ 7 The Sims Architecture – Building a House https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/05/13/sims-architecture-building-house-2/ https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2007/05/13/sims-architecture-building-house-2/#comments Sun, 13 May 2007 11:05:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=2124 Yesterday we looked at SimCity for the Nintendo DS and the ability to create a sprawling metropolis on the hand held console. Taking the concept further and moving it into...

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]]> Yesterday we looked at SimCity for the Nintendo DS and the ability to create a sprawling metropolis on the hand held console. Taking the concept further and moving it into suburbia is life simulation computer game The Sims. Created by game designer Will Wright, The Sims is the best selling game in PC history (Wiki – The Sims), and as is common nowadays comes with its own building tools to create your own in game architecture.

YouTube user chrispycrunchy86 has posted a series of videos detailing how to build a house in The Sims. The movie below illustrates the construction and architecture of House Type 1:

As with many game sandboxes the tools are easy to use and within a short time you are able to built a unique structure. In 2002 Maxis shipped The Sims Online, with an online chat system, custom avatars and the ability to build it could in some ways be compared to Second Life. Interestingly the game was not a success. In today’s world of social networks and Wikinomics (see our book review) The Sims online may of been before its time…

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