I made a Starfleet career for The Sims 3
For the past several months, I've been working on a Starfleet career for the computer game The Sims 3. I finished it a week and a half ago and submitted it to the Sims modding site ModTheSims, and today they finally approved and uploaded it. Whew! Finally!
You can get the career -- or just read about it -- at this link.
The Sims 3 is what they call a life simulator; the little pixel people eat and sleep and get married and have babies ... and they also get jobs. There are eleven expansion packs for the game, of which Into the Future is the most recent. Well, if there's a whole expansion pack devoted to life in the future, it needs to have Starfleet in it, right? Well, now it does. :-)
Writing the text for the career levels, career opportunities, career events, and so on was more difficult than it might seem at first, because the proper tone for a Sims career is mildly humorous and slightly snarky, whereas the proper tone for TOS is earnest and idealistic, and those tones don't mesh terribly well. I tried to give Starfleet a Sims spin without totally disrespecting the source material; we'll see how the players like it.
And of course there's a career level called "Redshirt," and of course that level is a bit dangerous:
I spent a LONG time working on this career -- part of which was spent reverse-engineering the career files enough to figure out how things worked -- and I'm both thrilled and sad that it's all finished, as one often is when a big project is completed.
Anyway, if you play The Sims 3, please check it out! And even if you don't, but you want to know what I've been doing for the past six months, reading over the post at ModTheSims will tell you. :-)
The moderator who approved my upload told me that I got 109 out of a possible 110 points, so it looks like the moderator liked it, at least. :-)
You can get the career -- or just read about it -- at this link.
The Sims 3 is what they call a life simulator; the little pixel people eat and sleep and get married and have babies ... and they also get jobs. There are eleven expansion packs for the game, of which Into the Future is the most recent. Well, if there's a whole expansion pack devoted to life in the future, it needs to have Starfleet in it, right? Well, now it does. :-)
Writing the text for the career levels, career opportunities, career events, and so on was more difficult than it might seem at first, because the proper tone for a Sims career is mildly humorous and slightly snarky, whereas the proper tone for TOS is earnest and idealistic, and those tones don't mesh terribly well. I tried to give Starfleet a Sims spin without totally disrespecting the source material; we'll see how the players like it.
And of course there's a career level called "Redshirt," and of course that level is a bit dangerous:
I spent a LONG time working on this career -- part of which was spent reverse-engineering the career files enough to figure out how things worked -- and I'm both thrilled and sad that it's all finished, as one often is when a big project is completed.
Anyway, if you play The Sims 3, please check it out! And even if you don't, but you want to know what I've been doing for the past six months, reading over the post at ModTheSims will tell you. :-)
The moderator who approved my upload told me that I got 109 out of a possible 110 points, so it looks like the moderator liked it, at least. :-)