Create-a-World Tool Coming in December
November 2, 2009 by Amy Tucker
Filed under Custom Objects, Screenshots, The Sims 3, World Adventures
One of the benchmarks of the Sims franchise has always been custom content.
While Maxis has been good about putting out Stuff Packs full of Maxis created goodies, the fan created custom content has tended to exceed what Maxis delivers both in terms of the amount of content and the subject matter – user created content is usually created to fulfill a direct need/request.
Looks like that’s about to change with the announcement of Maxis’s Create-a-World Tool.
With the Create-a-World Tool, Maxis is putting the creation of towns in your hands and will allow you to make anything that your brain can come up with in terms of layout and typography.
From what I’ve seen, this isn’t going to be one of those tools that everyone will use but then again, not everyone makes custom content – some people just want to play their game.
And you know, that’s fine because there are going to be a lot of highly talented creators out there who are going to swoop down on this tool and wring it out until the tool has nothing left to give and we’re going to be left speechless at the things they come up with. I’ve predicted some amazing towns; you read it here first.
The Beta version will be available as a free download sometime in December and a full install of at least Sims 3 is required to get the program to work. If you also install World Adventures, you will be able to use items from that expansion in your towns and I can only assume that you will be able to pick through elements from any subsequent expansions.
Even if you’ve never created custom content for any of the Sims games, you might as well download the free program when it’s released and see what you can come up with.
You just might surprise yourself.
Image|EA
