{"id":124,"date":"2004-10-06T23:46:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T21:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=124"},"modified":"2004-10-06T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T21:54:13","slug":"the-story-is-true-telling-stories-with-sims-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/10\/06\/the-story-is-true-telling-stories-with-sims-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The story is true: Telling Stories with Sims 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eladhari.blogspot.com\/\">Mirjam Eliadhari<\/a> presents her Sims 2 story about the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesims2.ea.com\/exchange\/story_detail.php?asset_id=2567\">Katt family here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, it really does work.  In Mirjam&#8217;s recounting (making-it-into-a-story), it very much becomes some kind of daytime soap &#8211; people snapping in and out of love, high drama, and so on. And I guess that soaps just were one of the not-so-talked-about inspirations behind Sims.<\/p>\n<p>The other big inspiration &#8211; at GDC Europe 2002, someone proposed that reality TV was one of the things that had paved way for the Sims. And if you think about it, it does look a lot like Big Brother. <\/p>\n<p>Steven Johnson writes about how he recreated his family in Sims 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenberlinjohnson.com\/movabletype\/archives\/000197.html\">only to have &#8220;himself&#8221; burn to death in an instant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t supposed to be my thing, but I find Sims 2 quite appealing (I would really like to play it instead of having to work now &#8211; and much more so than the previous incarnations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s official: Will Wright is the new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C9mile_Zola\">Emile Zola<\/a> <em>and<\/em> the new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aaron_Spelling\">Aaron Spelling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirjam Eliadhari presents her Sims 2 story about the Katt family here. And yes, it really does work. In Mirjam&#8217;s recounting (making-it-into-a-story), it very much becomes some kind of daytime soap &#8211; people snapping in and out of love, high drama, and so on. And I guess that soaps just were one of the not-so-talked-about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/10\/06\/the-story-is-true-telling-stories-with-sims-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The story is true: Telling Stories with Sims 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}