Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Why a Sims game took seven years to add a pregnancy story arc

For years, having a baby in mobile life simulation game The Sims FreePlay was nothing more than a big blue button: press it, and a baby would magically appear. According to associate producer Joshua Birse, players constantly begged for a more in-depth experience that captured what it’s actually like to go through a pregnancy. But every time the studio got requests, Birse says, it would shut them down by saying it was “never” going to develop the feature. In 2018, things changed.

Since its inception in the year 2000, The Sims has been one of the top-selling video game franchises in the world. “It’s the ultimate dollhouse,” says Gita Jackson, a Sims expert who is embedded in the community. (Disclaimer: Jackson is a former colleague.) “It’s...

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