The basic idea? You get to simulate people. You create virtual people and send them through virtual lives. It looked like fun.
Then, it hit me. Wouldn’t that be the ultimate escape for people who don’t have a life of their own? I mean, you’re pretty much God. You get to mess with other people’s lives.
The more I thought about it, the more I thought it was kinda sick. . . what do you think?
– Sylence
“Excuse me, are you reading Torah and eating crayons?”
Sylence, I guess it depends on the way you look at it. My son Billy loves Sim Town, he has to practice what makes a town work. Evening out where business may be, and how to keep pollution down. It seems like it isn’t a mindless exercise, it takes logic, and patience too, to see what works, and what doesn’t. Have fun!!
Judy
“Subconsciously there are many people you hate.” “Consciously,sir, consciously.” Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. “I hate them consciously.”
Actually, I think Maxis did come out with a SimAfterlife game a few years ago, although I never played it.
“I don’t just want you to feel envy. I want you to suffer, I want you to bleed, I want you to die a little bit each day. And I want you to thank me for it.” – What “Let’s just be friends” really means
Lucasarts came out with a Sim-type game called Afterlife, which is basically Sim City set in heaven and hell (you manage both at the same time.) Not nearly as good as most of Maxis’s Sim games, but it was okay.
Mr. Armageddon
“Just when you thought you had all the answers, I went and changed the questions!”–Roddy Piper