Before games let players build our dream homes, we had to make do with 3D architecture programs.
In the realm of games, I'd already blasted through 1991's, Sierra Entertainment's bitterly funny social life sim where you started off in a crummy, run-down apartment and worked up to a luxury condo. It offered a basic screen showing your home, replete with hard-earned furniture and electronics, but there was no control over where to place items or modification options.
Unlike SimCity 2000, it was both a literal and figurative close-up of modern life, exemplified by the glitz and futurism of the high-rise format. There was also a much more visceral, emotional connection between the inhabitants pictured on-screen and the environment—for the first time I had to really think about where I was placing restaurants and entertainment amenities, as well as the elevators in the building .
It's funny to think I used to play with interior design software, and now I'm using a videogame to plan out my own homeOne of Mallinson's earliest computer memories were the free CD-ROM demos of home design programs that came with her mother's home decor magazines.
Mallinson, who recently bought her first home, recreated the floor plan in The Sims 4 to play around with renovation ideas."It's funny to think I used to play with interior design software, and now I'm using a videogame to plan out my own home," she says, adding that she constantly thinks about better, more accessible ways to integrate The Sims' core components—architecture and home design—into gameplay.
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