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3 years ago"Oldeseadogge;c-18128520" wrote:
Am really enjoying this thread! Reading the posts brings back lots of memories: the games, the machines we played them on, life in general. I first found the Sims while it was still in development in the course of researching an economics paper. How EA came to be the subject is a long and sad story but the game concept was revolutionary, intrigued me, so I kept following it. Pounced on it as soon as it was released and have been simming ever since.
The Sims has some history in higher education! TS1's game engine was lent to several universities so that computer science students could practice programming new game objects. Here is a fascinating instruction guide by Will Wright:
https://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/papers/files/programming_objects_in_the_sims.pdf