Community Blog: You Chose the Eco Living Theme! Now Pick an Art Style

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The Sims team has released the second part of their “Create a Stuff Pack” campaign. In this round you will vote on your preferredĀ art style for the pack. Click here to vote.

Last week, we announced a brand new project where those of us here at Maxis will work hand in hand with all of you in the community to create a new Stuff Pack that represents playersā€™ desires. After counting votes from Sims players across the world, youā€™ve selected ā€œeco livingā€ as the theme for the upcoming Stuff Pack that weā€™ll be developing together. Today we start the next major step in development, as weā€™re asking you to help select this packā€™s art style.

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If youā€™re just discovering this project today, then welcome! There are many decisions still to be made where your input will help shape what we create. What youā€™ll see in the survey below is what we call a ā€œpack brief.ā€ It starts with our Art Director, who gathers reference images and works with our concept artists to sketch the rough ā€œroom viewsā€ that youā€™ll see. These room views represent a slice of the furniture, dĆ©cor, and clothing we hope to offer within this pack. Itā€™s important that we select an art style before we task our concept artists with creating a full set of content. On a typical Stuff Pack, the Art Director would meet with Producers and Designers and weā€™d come to a decision as a group regarding the art style we want to move forward with. But as with everything on this project, we want your choices to guide us forward.

After we gather the results of this art style vote, our concept artists will start to draw a variety of objects and clothing that fit the art style that youā€™ve selected. The Objects & Clothing Vote, which starts May 18th, is where youā€™ll see the result of our concept artistā€™s work, and youā€™ll choose your favorite objects and pieces of clothing that will be included in this Stuff Pack. As a reminder, hereā€™s the full schedule of upcoming votes. Come back on these dates and make your voice heard!

  • Art Ā Style Vote (April 10th ā€“ April 12th): Select between proposed art Ā styles for the pack, which will guide our concept artists in the objects Ā and clothing they create.
  • Objects Ā & Clothing Vote (May 18th ā€“ May 21st):Ā Browse through the concept Ā art weā€™ve drawn for the pack, and select your top choices to help us Ā determine which objects and pieces of clothing are included.
  • Feature Ā Vote (June 23rd ā€“ June 26th): Select the top gameplay feature(s) you Ā want to have included in the pack.
  • Pack Ā Icon Vote (Fall): Peruse different icons and select the one that will Ā appear in the pack’s box art and within the in-game catalog.
  • Pack Ā Title Vote (Fall): Select a title that best summarizes the pack’s Ā atmosphere and content.

In between votes, youā€™re invited to engage in discussion and respectful debate in SimGuruGrahamā€™s CornerĀ on our official forums. Here you can chat with fellow players, ask questions to the dev team, and discover behind the scenes information regarding the packā€™s progress from the developers.

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FAQ –Ā FORUMSĀ – SURVEYĀ (at the bottom)

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