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What do you use to tell stories for your Sims?
What do you use to tell stories for your Sims? 121 votes
The Sims 3 scrapbooks (only custom memories get included, no auto memories)
The Sims 4 screenshot manager (still wish for better organization and picture arrangement like a real storyboard)
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Personal website or blog (great for written stories)
Social media website, such as YouTube or Twitter or Facebook (great for written or video stories)
The "story" is all written in my head.
All of the above
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*sigh*
As for movie-making software, I also like Windows Movie Maker. It's simple to use, intuitive, ton of features, and best of all, FREE. However, Windows Movie Maker is an outdated piece of software, and my current computer doesn't come with it. So, I have learned to use the next best thing on the market: VideoPad Video Editor. The FREE version does wonders for me already, and it is possible to upgrade it to the full paid version.
Example: https://youtu.be/AS915imcm9A
Beyond that... Back in the day I messed with Sims 2 photo albums. It wasn't super serious (I tried to recreate Meerkat Manor with Sims, because that was a child's thought process) and nothing I would be willing to show then, much less now. In 3 I wanted to set up a world down to the tiniest details with CAW so I actually took the time to write it all out in a text document, kind of like I would a story, with everything down to the resident families.
I was a lot more into grander pretenses when I was younger, but if I was truly inspired I would do similar with writing things down now. The only problem is that I am not so inspired with 4 as a tool. If I have some sort of grand fantasy I would rather write it instead of forcing it into the Sims, so I need to have some inspiration from the game itself. While I do have enough to play, it isn't enough to do things in addition.
Just some ideas.
Too Good at Goodbyes forum thread
Too Good at Goodbyes blog
wndy10010TS2 on youtube. But please if you watch any of my left overs, make sure to watch in a small viewer as TS2 and TS3 doesn't look good with today's Youtube humongous viewer size. Makes things pixelated but used to look great on the old Youtube viewer. I need to clean up that channel but I used to have dozens and dozens from all three games posted but have a limit now.
For keeping track of the story as I play, I take a ton of screenshots and keep them in folders numbered by season (like seasons of a TV show). Whenever a storyline completes or reaches a good stopping point, I'll start a new folder/season and continue from there.
Actually I use folders in Windows to store my screen shots. Each story gets its own folder (or set of folders, since I only keep up to 999 images in a single folder, and some stories have been going on long enough to need multiple folders).
I use the image name to number the images in chronological order and to give them a short caption that fits the story. So an image name might look like "237-Ari is upset at Mandy".
For most of the stories, that's as far as it goes. The rest of the story is in my head.
But in a few cases, I write the story and use the screenshots to illustrate it. I use Text Maker for that, but that's just a writing program like MS Word. If I want to share with people I make PDFs of the chapters to email to them, because at this point in time, I'm not putting my stories online.
Back in TS2 days, I used the in-game story photo album feature. Mostly just for myself, but I did post a couple to the Exchange for contests and for a collaborative story written by members of my forum.