Comments on: Linked: Creative Blog Fiction, With The Sims 3 http://www.novelr.com/2009/08/13/linked-creative-blog-fiction-with-the-sims-3 Writing, Publishing and The Internet Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:04:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark Barrett http://www.novelr.com/2009/08/13/linked-creative-blog-fiction-with-the-sims-3/comment-page-1#comment-3753 Mark Barrett Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:15:39 +0000 http://www.novelr.com/?p=917#comment-3753 Very early on -- by which I mean more than a decade ago -- Will Wright was intersted in exactly this aspect of what he called him 'software toys'. How would people take his Sims and use them? And what 'stories' (my word) would come out of those experiences? When The Sims first hit the market, Will was shocked by the amount of diary/narrative entries being posted to the The Sims forum, but I really wasn't. This is how interactivity and narrative merge in the user's mind. If you're lucky enough to find someone who has the storytelling tools to take advantage of that convergence, the effects (as you see) can be quite compelling. Very early on — by which I mean more than a decade ago — Will Wright was intersted in exactly this aspect of what he called him ‘software toys’. How would people take his Sims and use them? And what ‘stories’ (my word) would come out of those experiences?

When The Sims first hit the market, Will was shocked by the amount of diary/narrative entries being posted to the The Sims forum, but I really wasn’t. This is how interactivity and narrative merge in the user’s mind. If you’re lucky enough to find someone who has the storytelling tools to take advantage of that convergence, the effects (as you see) can be quite compelling.

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