I CARE AND THAT IS ENOUGH.

[napoleonherself]

So basically all I do with my free time these days is play Sims 2! Because I loves it. And I have begun to play a legacy, because that's something I've wanted to do ever since I read about it years ago, but it's impossible in Sims 1 because genetics basically don't exist.

Nobody who is likely to read this will particularly care about my hastily-scribbled descriptions of the events in a half-decade-old game. I DON'T CARE. I'munna keep going until I get bored.

So here is my founder:

Her name is Titania, I made her in CAS, and she is going to have, like, a billion descendants.

MORE TO FOLLOW YO.

Comments

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

what that game needs is one icon that you can click on, and bring up the last family you played with. Instead of starting the game, skipping the movie, clicking on your town, clicking on your family, wait wait wait.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, yes, that would be amazing. I hate having to load the neighborhood list and then the neighborhood every dang time. Sometimes I'm not sure who I want to play first, so it makes sense; but lately I've only been playing my legacy family, so that's a bunch of useless extra clicks. If there's one thing they harp on at my work, it's the evils of useless clicks. (And grammar tips. If there's two things they harp on, they're useless clicks and grammar tips. And making software pretty. If there's three things... I'll come in again. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4svo6sVGxg))

One thing that is doable is making the opening movies never appear, though -- http://www.modthesims.info/article.php?t=92314

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

where do you work, where they concentrate on UI? It's one of my many many interests.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

http://epic.com -- we make electronic medical record software. The Epic that makes games is another Epic.

Our CEO likes to go on at the monthly all-staff meetings about how important it is to make our software "cute" and "sexy". The needless-click thing is one of the specific topics that gets mentioned fairly regularly.

I'm not saying we actually *do* awesome UI things, mind, but we do at least have a million UI-related guidelines to follow even if people don't actually follow them all the time.