The Grim Reaper and the 'Neat' Trait

My Sim decided to have a party to further his charisma skills.  Regardless of the fact that he turned in early and had a guest croak through lack of food, the party turned out 'epic', possibly due to his 'legendary host' reward.

I watched the Grim Reaper as he 'took' this unlucky and stupid Sim (I say stupid because there was a buffet table full of food so his demise was totally unnecessary), and then the Reaper done something that I've not seen before.  He picked up 'yesterdays' newspaper and placed it in the trash.  He then decided to make the bed:

And proceeded to clean out the toilet:

However, the toilet blocked and he then disappeared.  Typical!

My conclusion to this is that the Grim Reaper probably has the neat trait.   Either that, or he just has a sense of humour.  Unfortunately, he hasn't been back since so my Sim hasn't had a chance to chat with him to find out.

Has this ever happened to you?  Please comment below if you have a similar story!

Cheers!

~Minicart :-)

Autumn Sweaters for Girls

My Autumn Sweater for Girls was published yesterday over at The Sims Resource:

Again, I had great fun creating these, placing a wool effect on the multiplier first.  I then designed the images in Photoshop and placed a carpet effect overlay on them to make them look softer.  I created the ribbons for the balloons with the action script that I purchased from Atomic Cupcake:

I then placed the images on the clothing as an overlay which of course means that these images are non-recolourable.

If you would like this item in your game, you may download from the link below:

Download Autumn Sweater for Girls!

Cheers!

~Minicart :-)

The Sims 3 University??

I just finished watching the replay of The Sims 3 Seasons - Maxis Live Chat over on Origin as I unfortunately missed the live chat yesterday.

Just like a lot of other people, my first taste of The Sims was playing Sim City.  I remember playing this with my son on his Sega Mega Drive, I believe.  We had great fun building the city and watching the disasters as they struck.  When Maxis announced the new Sim City, I was very interested in how this would look, seeing as that computer graphics have come a long way since the original.  What did worry me was the feature of playing with others within the game.  I prefer to play alone, especially with my Sims.  However, when I heard on this chat that you have a choice of playing either with others or alone, seeing the gameplay and graphics, I'm now hooked, to say the least!

The Sims 3 Seasons looks fantastic in Moonlight Falls and now our Sims get to Woo-Hoo in leaf piles.....

Curtis done an awesome job asking questions on our behalf and I'm really looking forward to seeing his next video telling us about his trip.

Ryan Vaughan announced the new Sims magazine which unfortunately is only available on iPod and Android tablets so if you, like me, don't have these, you won't be able to get the magazine.  I for one would love to see a 'real' magazine that you can purchase off the shelf in stores.  I would certainly subscribe to that!

If you've seen this chat, you will have noticed that three 'guru's came on towards the end dressed in 70's, 80's and 90's clothes, giving the game away about the next stuff pack which is, yep, 70's, 80's and 90's clothing.  This is great news for us creators because it looks like there may be a few new meshes in there somewhere. There will also be lots of new hairstyles and clothing too.

After the announcement of the stuff pack by Sarah, Ryan recapped on the chat and then something weird happened.  Two people came on stage, one dressed in a cap and gown and the other dressed as some type of animal.  Ryan then told Lucy that maybe those guys belong back in University......

WHAT!!! UNIVERSITY!!!!!

I thought, OMG!!  Is this a hint of the next EP????

So I popped over to The Sims 3 website and found this:

The Sims 3 University

Okay, okay, it's just a 404 page but the page IS there.

I hope so - I just LOVED Uni for The Sims 2!!

Let me know what you guys think - just place your comments in the section below!

Cheers!

~Minicart :-)