Alice and Kev: homelessness in Sims 3
Alice and Kev is a marvelously well-written story in blog form documenting the lives of two Sims who are homeless: Kev, a father who suffers from mental illness (and who is also a jerk), and his daughter Alice, who is a good person but also rather unlucky.
It’s rather amazing to read, and the screenshots really make it. Go check it out.
Thanks, Raph!
People like doing that kind of things. I guess why games don’t think about a “film mode” with some helping utilities. Games like Morrowind or Gothic, or online games (Warcraft and Lineage) have lots of fans doing little films.
Perhaps the most notable thing is the content of the comments. There are clearly many people who wholeheartedly believe that a game is a completely unacceptable medium for doing this sort of thing, presumably due to the connotations of games being purely for ‘fun’, meaning any serious topic must be considered a parody. If someone had written a short story with the same characters, would the reactions have been as strong?