Robin Burkinshaw, a game design student from the UK, decided to not only experiment with the beloved Sim's free will in the Sims 3, but decided to blog about it. His blog, http://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/ , is all about two Sims, Kev and Alice, a homeless father-daughter combination, with personal traits that clash. In his attempt to recreate the poverty challenge idea from The Sims 2, he stumbled across more than he imagined due to one of the game's key features, the living neighborhood.

In Robin's blog he recaps these two Sims every day lives. Due to how well the Sims, in their 3rd title, interact without your help, they are able to establish some heartfelt stories. Robin not only recreates what he has played with screen shots and meticulous detail, but he gives his personal reactions to what happens when he stops helping this struggling family.

His blog has become more than just a little experiment. There are a ton of readers, who like myself, have come to wait on his updates just to see how Kev and Alice are doing. Be sure to read all about Kev and Alice in his blog on WordPress.

 

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Carinix

Very interesting blog, two fairly interesting characters definitely can make for a good story. Sims 3 also seems to have come a long way in the interaction options and AI, and the additions of things like wishes and the lifetime rewards all make each game a lot different.

PhoenixxxAZ1974

wow that is intense and brilliant. To make a game be life simulator and have 2 people who are so life like and not even be real :-)

brilliant article amazing find :-)

BobaFettucini

Reminds me of the problems the devs ran into with Oblivion, the world worked out so well that they had flaws from the character interactions, at one point the shady dealers kept showing up dead and they couldn't figure out why, come to find out it was the skooma addicts (skooma is the drug in the game) killing them because they needed their fix and couldn't afford the drug.

sup skynet.

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