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Hey!! Thank you so much for the kind words and for checking in with me!

I’m sorry, that I just disappeared like that. Yeah, I haven't worked on this project for a while. Last year was just very draining on my mental health and it was very hard for me to work much on anything.

Sorry for the late answer! Thank you so much, I’m super glad to hear that!

Oh, yes! Of course!

Been a while! It’s been so hot here, where I live, I almost felt like I’m actually in Strangetown. I didn’t get to work too much on the game during this heat, but here is a bit of what I’ve done!

Now here’s a friendly face, that you might recognize if you ever played The Sims 2 for PSP!

My main focus is still very much to make the game about the PC version of Strangetown, but Mambo Loa here will help the player a little in the very beginning!

Original plan was to use an actual Sims soundtrack, like the one for The Sims 2 DS/GBA.

But unfortunately I can’t just take any music, because GB Studio requires “.mod”-files, which also can only use certain instruments. Here’s a better explanation on how it works exactly. So the music basically has to be specifically made for GB Studio and I’m not skilled enough at the moment to make my own.

That’s why I’ve been using community assets! And they had everything I needed so far! But that also means, of course, that the music won’t be unique to the game and you might hear it in other GB Studio games.

Not a dumb question at all!

Create A Sim

What’s a Sims game without CAS? That’s why I really wanted to implement at least a little player customization into the game! Of course, it’s not much and I actually planned to have a bit more customization similar to this:

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get a menu like that to work correctly yet. So I instead settled for choosing between a few premade looks like you’ve seen in the video above. And after all it’s a game boy game with the player sprite being only 16 x 16 pixels big. So that the CAS wouldn’t be super detailed was foreseeable.

That being said though, there a 2 points I really want to address:

I do plan to add more premade looks! Also the ones you’ve seen in the video were made pretty spontaneous, so they’ll probably change aswell!

I absolutely wish I was able to use the 2nd to darkest color (same color as the background in CAS), for player sprites, but like I explained in another post that’s unfortunately a technical limitation that I can do nothing about. I’m genuinely sorry, if your skin color isn’t represented in the game!

New Font

Not much to say about this one! But I do think the custom font fits the game much more nicely!

It’s based on a font called Glasstown (free download), which in turn is based on the font used in The Urbz (GBA)! And I wouldn’t have found that font without stumbling across this very helpful blog post listing the fonts used in all kinds of different Sims games!

Soundtrack

Yes, you’ve heard that right! It’s music!

I honestly thought at first that the game wouldn’t have any music or sound effects at all, because the process for making those for a GBStudio game is pretty complex (at least for me) and you can’t just use any files, it has to be “.mod”-files using specific instrument sounds set by GBStudio, I think? But thankfully there are these community assets specifically made for GBStudio!

Thank you so much to ...

I do not! One reason - of course - is avoiding possible trouble with EAxis. I am using their copyrighted stuff after all!