The Games We Play - Sims

Random Art Collection #1

Some fun, graphic, colorful art for your walls! Frame comes in black and white, 14 swatches. Base-game compatible. 62 polys.

Sleek Hallway Set

15 brand-new items for a sleek and modern hallway.

EARLY ACCESS DOWNLOAD

Public release on the 31st of May.

The Coastal Collection - Part Four

You know what they say..GO BIG or Go HOME!! This month you’ll be getting your hands on some giant sized kitchen appliances 😂

A Double oven & fridge have been on my bucket list for quite some time & now I’ve finally been able to tick them off. I’m expecting lots of giant kitchens will be built with these in the near future :) But be warned these appliances are top of the range, therefore they come with a top of the range price tag!

Special mention also for the functional pot filler tap. This will be functional if placed at either side of the double oven, if its placed in the middle you sims will not be able to route to it and therefore it will be purely decorative. I have also removed the functionality of your sims being able to wash their dishes there, but you can still drag dishes to help with the washing up & of course they will be drinking plenty of water from it!

The set includes:

Single Oven

Double Oven

Double Fridge

Marble Splashback (2 tile, 1 tile, middle, left & right end, inner & outer corners)

Tile Splashback (2 tile, 1 tile, middle, left & right end, inner & outer corners)

Pot Filler Tap

Dining Table (1, 2 & 3 Tiles)

Dining Chair

Barstool

Available Now On Patreon Early Access

Simple Window and Doors

I recieved a few asks about the screen door I was using in my house details post. It was an edit of a door by a creator who doesn’t allow mesh edits (whoops), so I decided to re-make it using EA meshes. Again, it’s something I needed for my save that I couldn’t find anywhere else. Basically just a frankenmesh of the Growing Together Window, the High School Years door and the door handle/hinges from the Greenhouse kit.

Comes with a window and 3 door variations (single glass, single screen, glass with opened screen).

download here

Tyson Hair

Info:

Base Game Compatible

Masculine - Feminine

24 swatches

Hat Compatible, All LODs, All Maps

Teen-Elder

Evergreen Balcony Set

11 brand-new items for a relaxing outdoor spot.

EARLY ACCESS DOWNLOAD

Public release on the 14th of May.

Hello again,

I hope you all are doing great :), I am back with a brand new Set, Chateau Part 4.

I enjoyed creating the Chateau kitchen last month and in the end, was quite sure that I wanted to make more kitchen items. While I concentrated on the bigger pieces last month I wanted to focus on the smaller but equally important objects this month, it turned somewhat into a clutter month :D.

A kitchen is a nice thing to have, but realistically, you would need a pantry too for a grand house. For this part, I created another type of open counter; you can decorate it to your heart's content. For that purpose, you will get baskets to fill the space easier :D. Another story I focused on where simified versions of Smeg kitchen items, such as a Fridge, a Toaster, and a Kettle, I like their design, and the objects are not too modern for the chateau set but also not too old-fashioned. Now let me walk you through the clutter.

The Set includes nine pieces of porcelain, two containers, two towel arrangements, a very French baguette, a basket with veggies, another very French cheese board, and a cute little basil for your kitchen counter :). For the walls and ceiling, I created pots and pans in different sizes and color options, I think this brings the set together.

This Set is on Early Access and you will find it here

Have a wonderful day,

Please let me know if you find any problems with the challenge (I’m currently play testing it myself) or if you find a part that is too similar to yours/someone else’s (I’m aware there are quite a few flower based challenges out there but I tried to make mine as unique as possible).

( Base game version )

( Sims 3 version by @capygarden )

( Graphic version by @candlelightsimmer )

General rules

For each generation complete the designated aspiration, career, and skills.

Asterisk * marked points are optional, you can choose to complete these to make the challenge more difficult.

There are two colours associated with every generation. Use these for genetics (berry/banilla), or just clothes and house decor if you wish.

Start each new generation with a small house/apartment and 1000 simoloeons. If you want to make the challenge harder, you can start each generation on an empty lot with 0 simoleons (rags to riches style!)

Play on any lifespan you wish (short is not recommended).

If you decide to play this challenge @ me or use the tag #sib or #SimsInBloom if you want me to see!

This challenge requires:

Expansion packs - City Living, Get Together, Get to Work, Cats and Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Island Living, Eco Lifestyle, Discover University, Snowy Escape, Cottage Living

Game packs - Spa Day, Dine Out, Vampires, Outdoor Retreat, Parenthood, Realm of Magic

Stuff pack - Nifty Knitting

Gen 1 - Daisy (white, yellow)

Gardening has always been your passion. Owning a large, healthy garden is all you’ve ever wanted in life, even if your nails constantly have soil under them and you have so many broken pots you’ve lost count. Your happy place is meditating in the shade of the fruit trees that you grew yourself from tiny saplings. You sit and wonder what your family will grow to do, and hope that they will flourish just as beautifully as your garden has. This is the start of your family legacy!

Aspiration: Freelance botanist

Traits: Cheerful, clumsy, loves outdoors

Career: Gardening

Skills: Gardening, fishing, wellness

Live on a lot with the lot challenge ‘Simple living’

Grow a cowplant and keep it alive for as long as you live (if it dies, immediately plant a new one)

Grow 5 perfect plants

Marry a sim who also has the ‘loves outdoors’ trait

*Gain the Outdoorsy lifestyle

*Grow a death flower

leaning mattress

for when your house is a bit junky but not THAT junky.

the mattress from basement treasures freed from the shackles of the heart bed frame

mesh + texture edit

three levels of dirt nasty

kit not required - bgc

this little ol' blog has hit 1.5k followers! as a thank you, i am bringing y'all another facial hair edit no one asked for!

this time i altered two base game beards that i have literally always hated. may your weaker chinned and/or lumberjack sims rejoice!

download links below:

I think it’s time to tackle a topic that might make a few simmers uncomfortable, but we need to talk about it, because in addition to seeing a lot of people complain about it in general, I’ve also been getting some anons in my inbox talking about it. So let’s discuss this. 

Now, first of all, I would like to clarify a couple of things: 

When I speak of PAYWALLS here, I am talking about custom content that can ONLY be accessed by paying, or viewing an ad through a virus filled ad shortener link (which is just as bad).  Pure early access content, where you pay for it and get it earlier than everyone else who gets it for free IS NOT PAYWALLED CONTENT. 

This is why it is called a pay “WALL” because the wall portion indicates that you cannot access it without paying a fee/toll. 

Second of all, I would like to remind the public at large that this is not hate, it is a critical commentary. I am not going to go for these creators personally, nor do I want to. I, as a member of the community who plays the sims 4, and downloads/uses CC, would like to simply hold some of these creators accountable for actions that are unethical and unsatisfactory to the community in which they serve. That is it. No more, no less. I simply believe they CAN do better and BE better than this. 

Now, let’s get into the meat of this. 

The main type of abuse that I have focused on has been what I call Permapaywalls. 

Permapaywalls:

Content that cannot be accessed ANY other way than either paying a certain amount via patreon or another service, OR viewing a link through a virus-filled ad that puts your computer at risk. 

There are many creators who are well known permapaywall creators, with at least 80% or more of their content being locked behind these permapaywalls. Sometimes they may release a few items for free, but this is very similar to being allowed to test drive a car before buying it. It’s to entice the user/viewer into liking the brand, and then buying in.

I’m not going to delve into this too much because I’ve already expounded on this topic a bit. So let’s go further. 

The next type of abuse is what I like to call “Exclusive Loopholes”. 

Exclusive Loopholes: Creators who try to “get around” EA’s early access policy by offering a majority of their content as early access, but holding back certain items only to those who “subscribe” to their “patreon exclusive” content. 

There are some who are okay with this, thinking of this as a neat “bonus” for those who subscribe and support. However, the sims team made it clear: 

Folks who have a Patreon page are welcome to provide folks with “early access” incentives for their content but it should be made available to the general public within 2-3 weeks of it being given to folks early.

- Simguru Drake, The Sims Forum

Notice nowhere in this answer does it say anything about BONUS CC incentives. Nowhere. This is just a method that certain creators try to use to keep people from decrying them as “big bad paywall creators”. This way they can say “oh look, we do early access, we’re following EA’s rules~!” while still holding content hostage. 

If you want to offer your patreons some exclusives, here’s some ideas:  * Share pictures of your process, or work in progress content coming up.  * Allow them to have input into your process via polls and questions.  * Have an exclusive discord community just for your patreons where they can talk to you easier and share excitement and input about your content with you and each other.  * Have exclusive streams where only you and your patreons have the link to see you go live making content.  * Host a workshop on how to make CC using your process. (I see all of you who steal meshes from other sites sweating over this. ;D)  * Pause billing for a month and say “you know what, since you guys have been loyal and supported me, have a month of patreon on me!”  * Anything that honestly doesn’t involve only giving those patreons CC and not releasing it to the public. 

Let’s talk about another type, and oh my lanta, this type has had some anons messaging me ALL up in arms. I like to call this type “The Donation Disaster”.

Donation Disaster: Someone who CONSTANTLY uses the “downs” in the up/downs of life as excuses to not release content on time, or delay it while still collecting payment from patreons. Bonus “you’re a jerk” points if they then try to use those misfortunate circumstances to beg for even more money from their patreons on multiple occasions. 

Look, we all have junk that goes on in our lives. But when that junk is used as an excuse for you continually delaying content while still charging your patreons (and not using the pause feature), it makes them feel cheated.  In addition, when you then ask for donations to help you during your difficult time, and turn to your patreons instead of the support networks that are around you (ex: friends, family, religious communities, etc.), that can be VERY off-putting. You might be able to get away with it once, maybe twice, without a large chunk of your community turning against you. But the more regular it becomes, and the more they hear about how strapped for cash you are and how you’re asking them to give more than their pledge, and you’ll soon find yourself being called a scammer. Regardless of your intent, or if your problems are reality, you’ll find people’s empathy for your situation will be lacking.

I’ve had a few anons in my inbox talking about different patreon creators that always seem to have an excuse for why updates aren’t coming just yet, or why x is broken, and with their excuse comes a plea for help with bills, and a link to a paypal or venmo. 

Everyone has junk, don’t get me wrong. And it sucks to go through the junk we have in life, but if you’re reaching out to random people on the internet as your first method of support, you might need to be looking someplace else for support first before you come to the people who are already paying you for content you make. A one time “hey I’m in a bind, I need some help” donation thing might not be a bad thing, but when it becomes a constant pattern on your patreon….people aren’t going to take it well…at all. 

And last, but not least, I’d like to talk about the last kind of patreon abuse, which frankly, is really upsetting to me. I don’t even really have a name for it, because it’s literally so much of a “what?” thing in my head. I don’t even understand why it goes on.  Now, this practice involves the black/POC community, and frankly, as a white girl, I don’t feel I should be speaking over the community and what they have to say. Thankfully @xmiramira​ spoke on it, all the way back in 2019. Here’s an excerpt from her fantastic POST:

Even new creators who JUST joined the community sliding up in TBS with locs and braids talking about Patreon only. GTFOH. I’m not okay with creators doing Patreon only CC PERIOD, but my main discussion is focused on NON BLACK simmers making CC catered to US, and making it PATREON EXCLUSIVE IN AN ATTEMPT TO FORCE US TO PLEDGE, and how people are ASSUMING that I’m OKAY WITH THIS, and ASSUMING that I’m letting it FLY in my community. Just because I don’t go off about shit as frequent as I used to doesn’t mean I cannot see and I am not doing what I can to keep the fuckery OUT.“Oh but your friend has a Patreon” I don’t have an issue with what @ebonixsims is doing because it’s all early release. It gets released to the public a few weeks later. It’s not being kept behind Patreon, forcing people to pledge to her. Despite this, she’s still doing really good with it. So don’t get it twisted, I’m not on social media arguing with folks so people just assumed I’m okay with this shit, I’m really not. I’m actually two seconds off dropping Patreon share folders. (That also have my shit in it) Supporting people is one thing, but a lot of these motherfuckers are becoming extremely exploitive, and it’s aggravating. It’s like you goofy motherfuckers sit in DMs like “yeah let’s make some CC for the negros and put it on Patreon” Fuck outta here. And it’s not even just hair, it’s skins and even CLOTHING STYLES. Y’all are really wilding the hell out. African necklaces, black girl magic chains, Juicy Couture sweatsuits. Who the fuck do you think you’re fooling? IM TIRED! Next time someone asks me where I got something and it’s Patreon exclusive I’m dropping a SFS link. FUCK OUTTA HERE!

Here’s the deal. The black community has been fighting for a while to be able to feel represented in this game. Here’s two articles (ONE, TWO) talking about this issue.  But the thing that has me upset is the fact that SO many creators of content that is AIMED at Black/POC simmers are locking that content (or a good majority of it) behind paywalls. And what’s even more shameful is some of those creators are POC themselves! They understand what it’s like to feel that they cannot make themselves or have sims that look like them in this game, yet they still lock their content away and expect people not just in the SIMS community, but in the POC community to pay through the nose for it.  The fact that this is STILL going on, two freaking years after she made this post, and that both NON POC creators and POC creators are engaging in this behavior is honestly disappointing and shameful. I believe black/POC creators should be supported, BUT they should be supported without depriving their OWN community of representation and access. And frankly, if you’re a NON POC creator and you’re specifically targeting this group to make money off of them with paywalls, I have only one thing to say to you:

Better Beard & Goatee - 500 Follower Gift

I am back with some new Growing Together mesh edits as a thank you to everyone who has shared my content and welcomed me to this lovely community!

This time I have taken on the challenge of reshaping the beard that came with the pack and making a few changes that I feel improve the overall look.

Details, downloads, and TOU under the cut.

Cairo Hair

Base game compatible

Custom catalog thumbnail

24 Maxis swatches

Hat compatible

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One Sock On by @varsas converted to infants!

COLLECTOR’S CRAFTSMAN

Nestled into the Del Sol hillside, this sprawling estate has grown over the course of multiple generations’ renovations from a humble bungalow to a full on Craftsmansion. Today it is home to a wealthy curator of fine art and artifacts and their family’s extensive personal collection. 

Lot details:

Lot Type: Residential (4 bed, 4.5 bath)

Price: §238,196

Size: 50x40

Location: Ward Den, Del Sol Valley

I’ve used from all packs freely here — Seasons, Snowy Escape, and Jungle Adventure are used heavily throughout 

Simmify Music Nook Part 2

Hi! I'm very excited about this random collection of items. Simmify Music Nook Part 2's centerpiece is the new upright piano which comes in a range of swatches. I started building the set around it, and I ended up creating some of my most favorite items to date.

Read more about the objects and find the in-game preview below!

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