I was asked to give a little bit more detail about my simmish cultures and heritages of my simmies. I love learning about different cultures and since the world is full of them, here are a few of the current cultures in my hood. There will be more cultures as I delve deeper into my simmies lives and build the corresponding locales for them to visit as well. Feel free to steal/borrow/use these in your games as well. I hope to start adding downloads of the buildings in the future for those who are interested in recreating the locales in their game.
Inherited CulturesThese are cultures that I inherited from other simmers when their sims moved to my hood.
Sokitumi-Nicole Humphrey was originally from Sokitumi, an island nation that had several goddesses including the famed goddess of love, Goddess Lahubutaniya and the god, Anghj. This simmer did an excellant job of fleshing out Sokitumi from native words such as Melihari (hello), government names (Peaceful Regency) and a beautiful background. To hear this simmer discuss Sokitumi it seemed like a magical society untouched by modern spoils. You can check out Nicole's former
blog and Nicole and Lyndon's
conversations for more insight on this culture. I created Sokitumi on one the islands of my tropical subhood which uses the Emerald Isles from
Amber's Journey. Sokitumi is also the only tropical island where the default Maxis tropical vacation clothing makes sense.
Simborough-Sandy Warwick and Jadhira Shazad arrived in Apple Valley after a
Gender Swap with Simborough. Simborough is a FSBS hood and because this simmer is from the UK, that's what I envisioned Simborough as. You should browse through the website and learn more about Simborough's multicultural hood.
Native CulturesThese are cultures that I developed for my simmies based on gameplay options. Most of these are a result of Bon Voyage and not wanting to use the standard vacation hoods that shipped with the game.
Kimikuria: this is my "asian" vacation hood using the Ellis Island from
Amber's Journey. It's loosely based on the east asian countries like Japan, China and Korea. Kimikuria is the land of zen gardens, old wise men, and mahjong . The lots are mostly the oriental series downloaded from wolfsim68 at TSR. The lots that I built use the same exterior wallpaper and roof color so that all the lots are uniform in apprearence. Li Yoo is originally from Kimikuria and the Warwick family spent three simyears there on assignment. The name was chosen based on the "asian" sound of it.
Hacienda Bay: this is the hometown of the Herendez family, starting with Alfonzo and Margurita Herendez (Greymount TS1, Apple Valley TS2) who immigrated from the bay. It is loosely based on the caribbean islands like Puerto Rico with it's british colonial style buildings, lush plants and ocean views. Currently this is only one lot in my "tropical" vacation subhood. I am in the process of rebuilding it since my first version will not "place" on the neighborhood thanks to the fact that it's a beach lot. The goal is to make it one complete island as my tropical subhood is the Emerald Isles from
Amber's Journey. I don't remember exactly how or why I chose this name since it was during TS1 days (2004).
Tiki Isle: this is the hometown of the Kent family, starting with Toby and Veronika Kent (Greymount TS1, Apple Valley TS2) who immigrated from the isle. The isle is loosely based on the caribbean islands of Cayman Islands and Jamaica. The isle features a rich culture in terms of food, dance and "juice" exports. Currently this lot is in the planning stages and will eventually take up an entire island in my tropical subhood (Emerald Isles from Amber's Journey) as well. This name was chosen based on the shipped Tiki sets with the game.
Ozian: this is the birth place of Elphaba Mendenhall, who was born with a rare skin disorder that made her pigment a bright green. For those familar with the
Wizard of Oz and
Wicked, then you will recognize Elphaba as the Wicked Witch of the West. This place doesn't exist in the game yet, but I might consider creating this locale for Anthony and Susie to explore.
Thaindia: this is the hometown of Jadhira Shazad and I'm very excited to be starting the building of this island that is loosely based on the south east asian cultures like Thailand, India, Singapore and the Phillipines. Currently it's a single island set as a "asian" vacation subhood. I've included a sneak peek of one of the structures on the island. This name is basically a combination of Thailand and India :P
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This was very nice. I do a similar thing in my hood. But I haven't really put in much planning. I have though about building an India vacation hood, since I do have the Ramaswami's and I figured that they would like to return and visit their home one day. So you have inspired me to do something about it. Thanks, Starr!
ReplyDeleteWow! You really have some of the most original ideas for your hood. I don't think I would have thought to make up cultures for my Sims (vaguely, in my head, some of the families are associated with real-life cultures) but this is all very creative.
ReplyDeleteI think the main draw for me is the different locales you've created. I'm pretty bored with the Maxis ones but I haven't yet worked up any motivation to build anything else.
Fantastic! I love the names for the different locations and your inspirations leading into cultures. I have different subhoods, and have a few sims I consider "korean" and so my asian vacation hood is in my mind, but I haven't gone into culture at all, other than a few things in my head. And like Carla, it's all real-life, and not creative.
ReplyDeleteSeriously awesome! :D
-Riverdale, no worries, I can't wait to see it in your hood.
ReplyDelete-Carla, thanks ^_^ The maxis terrains were too large for my liking, so my custom subhoods use much smaller terrains. The added bonus is that it takes less time to build.
-Maisie, thank you. I like the simmish/maxis culture and how they exist in their own little world, so I try to build into that as well. Sometimes my names are not creative-like Thainda, othertimes, I just spell things backwards :P