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We talked with Rose from Rose Sims to get some insight into custom content creation. Come check it out!

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Fan Interview - Rose Sims

MaxoidMoonBelly from The Sims 2 talked with community member Rose of RoseSims2 to give some insight into custom content creation!

MaxoidMoonBelly: How did you first hear of the Sims, and what got you into playing the game at first?

Rose: In fact, I had been a big fan of EA's games for a long time before The Sims came. SimCity was my favorite until I get The Sims 1, when I saw the news about The Sims 1 I was looking forward to get it and then bought one as soon as it on sale in China ,that's really a great game. Once I discovered people can make custom content I fell in love with The Sims.

MaxoidMoonBelly: What is a memory you have of a fun or favorite moment in the game with your Sims?

Rose: There are too many funny things we can find from the game. For myself, I do like watching what the kids are doing in the game, and I also like to make my Sims do some cooking. Sometimes they burn themselves, lol !! As we can make custom content ourselves, I also like put some protagonists from different Cartoons in one family, for me it was really funny when Sailor Moon met Yuna.

MaxoidMoonBelly: What inspired you to start making your own creations?

Rose: At the beginning, I don't know how to make things for The Sims game, so I need to search everywhere to find a thing I wanted, that's really cost me a lot of time and sometimes I can't find anything. Then an idea came into my mind, why don't I make it myself? When I started to make things myself, I found it as funny as play The Sims games so I made more and more things and I think I will make more in future.

MaxoidMoonBelly: What would you say is the biggest challenge to making things for the game?

Rose: I think that is making a suitable 3D model of the thing for the game. If you want to get more details of a thing in the game, you should use much more vertexes when you make it's 3D model, but in fact, the 3D model can't use too many vertexes and faces, otherwise when you put it into the game ,it maybe cause the game to crash.

MaxoidMoonBelly: What programs do you use (modeling and texturing)?

Rose: I use 3D MAX and MilkShape for modeling and Photoshop for Texturing.

MaxoidMoonBelly: Had you any knowledge of these programs before you started making items for The Sims?

Rose: I had learned how to use the 3D MAX and Photoshop when I was in College, but MilkShape was completely new for me.

MaxoidMoonBelly: Where did you go to learn how to do modeling and texturing?

Rose: When I started to make things for The Sims, I spent a lot of time in the Create section of MTS2 to learn how to make things. I should say that the MTS2 is really a good place for both Sims creator and player.

MaxoidMoonBelly: What are the most requested items you get asked to make?

Rose: I have a folder to put all the pictures of the requested items, from the folder most of the requests are fantasy items, most of the roles from famous cartoons. Items from FF series, Sailor series, Naruto etc.

MaxoidMoonBelly: What do you like most about The Sims game?

Rose: I think that it is the freedom, we can create anything we want into the game and then play with our creations. We can even create a story or a film through the game, that's really exciting! I think no other game can support this as better as The Sims done.

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EA Announces The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack

Your Sims Can Now Explore All-New Activities, Hobbies and Cool Careers to Enrich Their Lives

REDWOOD CITY, CA - January 16, 2008 - Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced the newest expansion pack from The Sims™ Label, The Sims™ 2 FreeTime. This expansion pack offers your Sims a full suite of all-new activities and hobbies to enrich their lives. Your Sims can build their skills and enhance friendships by exploring new pursuits based on their personal interests, helping them live life to the fullest.

"Players of The Sims love to bring stories to life by exploring new and wonderful areas of their Sims' existence," said Rod Humble, Head of The Sims Studio. "Now with The Sims 2 FreeTime, your Sims can explore a range of interests to discover new fun and appealing life options and diversions. Realizing these all-new talents adds depth, humor and appreciation for the moments that make life entertaining."

It's all about fun, personal development for your Sims in The Sims 2 FreeTime. Sims can follow their individual interests, whether it's immersing themselves in books, becoming an award-winning foodie, flying a remote-controlled helicopter or playing the violin. Gifted mechanics can repair and then drive their newly-renovated sports cars. Sims can rake in oodles of Simoelons with skillfully crafted pottery or by writing a mesmerizing novel.

Cool careers bring happiness and fulfillment to your Sims and your storytelling opportunities expand. New cool career options await, including oceanography, architecture, and entertainment. Now by honing their talents, your Sims can unlock a secondary aspiration making them even more unique.

KEY FEATURES

• New Gameplay Elements Tied to Hobbies. Your Sims can discover the activities that they're most passionate about! Sims can now participate in contests to win prizes and Simoleons, or they can master interests, practice and improve their skills, and get in "the zone!" Your Sims can enrich their lives by creating items to use or sell, like pottery or cars. These new hobbies can strengthen friendships and uncover secret lots.
• New Lifetime Aspiration Meter. Your Sims can measure the progress of their aspirations over a lifetime and unlock special rewards and interactions!
• Five New Career Tracks and their Reward Objects. Oceanographers can earn a koi pond, entertainers can get their own star of fame, architects can use their own drafting table, dancers can receive a ballet barre and intelligence agents can use an audio augmenter earpiece.
• All New Objects and Outfits. The Sims 2 FreeTime introduces brand new items, including a basketball hoop, pottery wheel, toddler activity table, modular synthesizer, hobby train table and much more. Your Sims can also have new outfits to match their hobbies and activities, including a special outfit that was designed and created by a player of The Sims 2 that will be produced by H&M.

Product Specifications
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Electronic Arts Redwood Shores
Ship Date: US: February 26, 2008
Europe: February 22, 2008
* PC expansion pack*
Category: Simulation/Strategy
ESRB Rating: T for Teen with descriptors of Crude Humor, Sexual Themes, Violence
PEGI Rating: 12+

* Requires The Sims 2, The Sims 2 Special DVD Edition , The Sims 2 Holiday Edition or The Sims 2 Deluxe for PC to play.