@SnuffyBucket
I started with an idea that just wouldn't die
Haha, I know how that feels! Interesting how you wrote it all down and planned things out beforehand, and then do the actual game part. Do you ever hit story beats where your notes want you to do something and there just… isn’t enough in the game to let you do it? Like an action you can’t do, or poses you can’t find, or something like that?
@ThePlumbob
Sounds like your way of doing things and my way of doing things are actually pretty similar, only you have more post-it notes and I have more random coloured cells in excel that I try to play tetris with, and then realize nothing fits in the same chapter. XD
@lone_cat
Screenshotting can be a pain because I have a specific idea in my head how a scene will play out, but sometimes I can't find poses or the game won't cooperate with me.
Aaah that is just the worst. I used to have that all the time with TS3 – maybe I was too ambitious, but the game was just not enough for the kind of story I wanted. TS4 also has its drawbacks, but more things seem possible so far.
Mine’s very similar to Plumbob. I make a rough outline first based on an idea I have in my head, mostly bullet points that describe what should happen. Then I build the scenes and hunt for poses I need. Then picture taking. And that’s where my own story often surprises me. That whole kid chapter with Arthur trying commoner skills wasn’t supposed to be about that at all. But he made such hilarious facial expressions that it just kind of sprang into existence on its own, and then I couldn’t not write it anymore. The tavern brawl, too. It was just supposed to be them talking, but Marcus Flex and Elyan were both in a terrible mood and just GLARING at each other and then I had to do it. xD
I do often hit the roadblock of what I want to show just… not being possible in the game. I still don’t know how to make pretty underwater screenshots. Or how to fling people off a cliff. Or even how to properly place sims outside the boundaries of where EA allows them to walk in the neighbourhood.