Sims3 and my characters.

[dameboudicca]

 I wonder if I'm the only writer in history who actually uses the PC-game Sims3 as an experimental studio for my book characters. I build their houses and I make my characters into Sims, giving them traits they show in my stories and then place them in this artificial world and then I see what happens. (Not all my households in Sims are actually "writing households" but quite a few of them.) What I like the most is that a) my houses generally works quite well, practically I mean, and the sims generally act together as I thought they would. 

Yeah, I loved my doll-house when I was a kid... 

Comments

[azuire]

Someone else on my LJ flist also does that! I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing for you though. I'd actually do the same if I could ever figure out how SIMS worked.

[deathgaze]

That actually sounds like an amazing idea! I have this issue where I can't visualize characters, which is why I'm so hesitant to write. I might just try your idea.

[dameboudicca]

Well, I'm not going to mind others doing it - I still consider us being a small and select number! ;)

And do try to figure it out, it's loads of fun. Or perhaps don't - it'll eat your time like nothing else. As games generally do.....

[dameboudicca]

Do! And it's fun while trying to get it to work too! :)