What do you use to tell stories for your Sims?

i literally just use my head for the stories hahaha

For the longest time I would just have stories for legacy's in my head and would normally make family trees for them. But recently I've been posting the story of my Legacy family on Instagram. I suppose it's not quite a written story, but it is the story of family throughout several generations. (so far 3 and a half)

"waterywatermelon;d-991104" wrote:

"Oldeseadogge;c-17917163" wrote:
As a writer, I find the TS2 albums indispensable for story telling. It transforms routine simming into what amounts to a graphic novel, something that can be explored, developed, and gone back to. Back in the days of the TS2 website those stories - text and pictures - could be shared with the greater simmer community. That part of the site amounted to an online writer's group where we shared and commented on one another's' work, possible because we had a concrete means of doing so. It turns a game into an art form.

I am with you on that one Oldseadogge.

I no longer make stories for the Sims. With the Sims 2 it was easy take a picture make an album and add your blog to it; upload to the Sims 2 forum where we could share our stories with the Sims 2 community.

I made many Sims 2 type tutorials for game playing but I feel the effort with the Sims 3 and the Sims 4 is not worth my time. It would distract from "fun" and not add to it.

mods and screenshots

I plan my stories as I play according to who my Sims are attracted to. I play Sims 2 mostly.

> @Simmingal said:
> i store it in my head and separate screenshot folders until i come and type it up on forum post maybe
>
> though that becomes kind of complicated once you've been playing the story for long time and haven't wrote anything up :smile:

Haha it’s funny because the same thing happens to me with my blog. I usually take pics, edit, post them in my drafts/queue and write the way later. Sometimes I’m so ahead that I don’t even know what to caption the pictures anymore :D

I defs miss the old TS2 exchange with options to upload stories in the form of photo albums along with sims and lots. It also housed the forums. I'm old though! :)

I mostly take photos in whatever method the game allows, and the “story” is usually in my head as I take some general photos. I don’t share my stories much, though.

Have finally found a way to tell TS4 stories in the TS2 way. It's more cumbersome as it involves an outside game display, but does the same job with the benefit of not needing the game to see/read the story. The basics are:
Set up a story folder per household
Play game and take your shots, keeping story elements in mind
After playing, move the shot files into the relevant folder(s)
rename files so you don't have the date-time issues that can't handle AM vs PM and change of year. I start with 001 and go from there
using your graphics programme (I use the provided Windows Paint for simplicity), add a blank space for captions and the text function for writing them. Voila! you have your stories.

This has revolutionized TS4 for me, moving it out of boring into usually fun.

i store it in my head and separate screenshot folders until i come and type it up on forum post maybe

though that becomes kind of complicated once you've been playing the story for long time and haven't wrote anything up :sweat_smile: