#simsville

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Who at EA had a thing for Dominatrixes

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Bella Goth covers Computer Gaming World (August 2001)

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🌿 Welcome to Willowridge!

After some time in the making, our new map Willowridge is finally available for download! Willowridge is a small town where time seems to have stopped — surrounded by gentle hills, hand-drawn streets, and a nostalgic atmosphere that invites you to slow down and enjoy every detail. Deeply inspired by Simsville, The Urbz, and SimCity, Willowridge features idyllic buildings that are sure to charm you!

Are you ready to discover who you’ll become in Willowridge? 🌅

📥 Get it now and embrace the calm rhythm of this new journey.

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📺💿🏺The Lost Media of The Sims

[simsvillepodcast]

🎧 Episode 1: Bowling for Newbies

Sul Sul! Welcome to the very first episode of SimsVille — where townies stir chaos, businesses open overnight, and expansion packs somehow keep multiplying.

🎳 This week in SimsVille: The Newbie Family is opening a bowling alley downtown (what could possibly go wrong with that much cosmic bowling energy?). The town is buzzing, the plumbobs are glowing, and we might have a brand-new sponsor… 👀

📦 Plus: We take a closer look at the 18th expansion pack for The Sims 4: ✨ Businesses & Hobbies ✨ From side hustles to full-blown chaos, we’re breaking down everything it brings to the game.

➡️ Listen to the episode here: SimsVille LinkTree

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PC Powerplay - February 2001 SimsVille

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Okay so, if you listen to me at all you know that I've been talking about the unreleased Simsville for a while. For those who don't know, it's a smaller scale simcity with a focus on small town life and The Sims within your town.

Okay hear me out here, I think it WAS released and the game that it became was Simcity Societies. HEAR ME OUT!

So I started playing this game again a few days ago and I was wondering why it's so much different than the other simcity games. You don't zone lots. You put down EVERY commerical and EVERY residential lot yourself. Then I realized, that was a feature in the unreleased Simsville game. Once I noticed that I couldn't stop noticing things.

There's a focus on the lives of sims. You see the cars they drive and you track the members of families. Which was a feature in simsville.

There's a video put out by one of the simsville devs which shows a feature where you can click on a building and use arrows to see every other building of the same time. That's a feature in societies.

The buildable area is VERY small. Smaller than even Simcity 2013.

Then there are things that I didn't see in Simsville which seem very strange for a Simcity game to have but would make sense in the scale of a game like Simsville. There is a focus on the Sims themselves. You can track specific kinds of sims and see things like "Hippies created" or "deaths related to illness" in statistics menu.

Then there are smaller things. The only roads available in simcity societies are smaller roads and dirt roads which are all we see for Simsville. The way that objects are categorized looks similar to Simsville as well.

This is the only simcity game that I can think of that allows you to put down specific things like this. Even though they aren't the same objects it allows for similar 'detail' placement. I can't think of a normal Simcity game that lets you put down a single swingset as an object.

I think that Simcity Societies is just a retooled Simsville with a feature of creating a town with 'european' or 'authoritarian' buildings to create different kinds of town versus simsville's originally planned small town America vibe, even though Simcity Societies has plenty of that left over too.

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