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Did Graham say the next part was starting in September?
IngeJones
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• Pack Title Vote (September 13th – September 15th): Select a title that best summarizes the pack's atmosphere and content.
Those are the last two vote dates Inge.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
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@SimGuruGraham Do some SPs take much longer to plan and make than others? Just curious why sometimes we get several SPs in one quarter and sometimes we only get 1
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I look forward to seeing what comes next in the process!
(From Reading Graham's Post)
^This is the result of me spending a bunch of time in buff creation modding...
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/915385/welcome-project-info-survey-winners-helpful-links/p1
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
> Well we have to do it in the order the team have to agree it with their partners. This is part of the learning process, maybe they always have to have the icon ready for an earlier deadline than the name?
When quarter teasers come out they usually have the icon in them but they don't have the name.
This ones just taking so long because its a PR stunt. Graham already has said that it takes like a day or two for them to decide these things.
-Cars Update
-Spiral/Diagonal Stairs Update
-Hotel Pack
-Romance Pack (possibly combined with Hotel Pack)
-Bands Pack
-Royalty Pack
-Fashion Design Pack
-Fairies Pack
-Werewolf Pack
-France-inspired World
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Not in particular. You can think of pack development in two major chunks... there's Pre-Production, and Production. Please keep in mind that what I'm describing below is specific to Stuff Pack development. Not all of these practices scale up well to larger packs, so adjustments are made in the way they develop things.
Pre-Production is when we're creating all of our concept art, sending mimic objects and CAS assets to be built by external partners, writing designs, and holding meetings to review those designs and our planned implementation. The start time of this phase of the project fluctuates a bit from pack to pack depending on the timeline of those aforementioned partners. Because most of this work doesn't impact the same people that are implementing features in-game, we're able to do pre-production for an upcoming pack at the same time that we're in production on a different pack.
Production is when the various disciplines actually start to work on building the features for the pack in-game, all the way through to going gold - aka, approving our final build candidate. Our production timeline is rigid, and has essentially been the same length since the first Sims 4 Stuff Pack. On rare occasions we'll run into complex issues late in development that necessitate adding time to allow us to make additional bug fixes on the new features included in the pack. Thankfully this doesn't typically impact the ship date of a Stuff Pack, as there's usually a cushion of time between going gold and shipping the game, which we can compact to get us the extra time we need. When this occurs it does have a ripple effect on dates for the next pack though, as we obviously can't move on until we've finished the previous one.
As to the original question... why do some SPs come out so soon after each other, and others have long gaps between them... Quite simply, some Stuff Packs go gold months in advance of their ship date. Kids Room Stuff was the largest gap between finishing a pack and when it actually shipped. We were actually already in production for Vintage Glamour by the time Kids Room shipped. Other Stuff Packs have literally gone gold the week before the pack was released. Our SP team is capable of building four Stuff Packs a year, but our actual release dates are determined by other factors that take our entire pack lineup into consideration. I should reiterate that Stuff Packs are the only type of pack we do this with - Game Packs and Expansion Packs are scheduled such that they ship soon after they're finished.
The toddler sp has to come first and possibly another sp next quarter.
Only 4 a year?
It reminds me of doing plays, and the productions that wouldn't "gel" until opening night.
And thanks for another behind the scenes look into the process!
I think it must have been, I remember a tweet from Graham where he was leaving the building really late one night and various allusions to working really hard.
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Toddler stuff pack?
As we have been given them free I think one of the next packs should have "live in" nurses and nurseries so that those who find them a nuisance can get rid of them for the day, plus prams to wheel them around in.
@SimGuruGraham can you show the 3 new hair styles that come with this pack? (Even if it's concept art)