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.

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Believe it or not, Spring isn’t that far away I know that some of you are just itching to get your Sims into something short and sassy.

Phoenix42793 has been gone from Mod the Sims2 for a while but she’s come back with a bang with this great outfit in six colors.

Click here to download for your own game.

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I downloaded the furnished version of the house since it had tons of really cool custom content and played the house for quite a while.  I decided that the house just wasn’t doing it for me since I really wanted an ocean view and I had put the house about as far from the ocean as possible.

I moved myself out of the house and into a cool townhouse next to the beach.

Then, I remembered that I wanted a video of the custom house so that I could post it on here for you guys.  BUT, since I moved “myself” out of the house, all of the custom content was sold so the house is empty.  You still get a good idea of just how cool the house is.  Watch the video [featuring the Sims 3 theme] and then download the house for your own game.

I think you’ll like it.

Click here to download.

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While the fact that your furry family members can get off of their butts and earn a wage is cool, some of the careers can get a bit stale after a while.

So, I present to you the Time Travelling Career for your pets!

It’s a custom career so it won’t override any of the exhisting base careers and looks to be a lot of fun.

Hope it adds a bit of pizazz to your game.

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I just love this house.  The lot is wonderful.  TONS of custom content.  TONS really great rooms and NO expansion packs required.  Brighten11 does great work and this is definitely a lot that you don’t want to miss.

Click here to download this really great house.

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Oh, the gingerbread house.  A bastion of the Christmas holiday.

Usually you put the things together and then eat them piece by piece.  But with this gingerbread house, you live in it.

Dig the candy cane light poles?  I think they’re pretty cool.  The whole place is 100% livable and there is plenty of room to add a driveway – gotta have a driveway if you want a BMW with a big bow on it.

Click here to get this really original house for your neighborhood.

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Some look good and some make your Sim look like some kind of alien [but in a very bad way].  Shady does a really great job of creating believable eyes to further customize the look of your Sim.

The eyes come in 12 different realistic colors and “sparkle” just like real eyes.  Since the eyes are the windows to the soul, I think that it’s really important that this custom content be done right.

Click here to get your own set of “sparkling eyes”.

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Are you looking for awesome Maxis created custom content for cheap?

Look no further than the Sims Cash Card.

The card can be purchased from Walmart and 7-Eleven [anyone else find that odd?] and come in 10 dollar increments which will buy you 1k SimPoints at the Sims 2 Store.

Right now tons of things are 75% off and new holiday items are being added.

You can also redeem the cards to download a new Sims game.

I haven’t seen them around our local Walmarts yet but they are available so keep looking.

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This is a pretty cool addition to just about any game…especially if you lack the Bon Voyage expansion.

The house is a two bedroom, one bath jobber with a private beach.

Click here to download your very own beach house.

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For dinner tonight: Stuffed Bell Peppers!

This is the last part of my four day yummy grouping of posts.  These guys really do look good enough to eat and like the other offerings, your sims have to have the ability to make lobster to cook these babies.

Click here to download this great new dish.

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