A fascinating read. As a gay kid/teenager growing up in an extremely homophobic country, playing The Sims and having the ability to create a character in my likeness was very comfortinghttps://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-kiss-that-changed-video-games …
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Ven Popov Retweeted Phil Salvador
This is an old article, but I found it through this fascinating post, which details the internal debates concerning sexuality options during The Sims developmenthttps://twitter.com/ItsTheShadsy/status/1151868012707962881 …
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Phil Salvador @ItsTheShadsySims developer Don Hopkins released a bunch of design documents from The Sims, including this one from August 1998 with his notes about romance: https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSims/ It's incredible to see the internal discussion about romance in The Sims written out so strongly like this pic.twitter.com/Ix7fQKnanwShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 3 likesShow this thread -
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This looks like a really fascinating history to the game and I'm glad to see how many of us enjoyed this game in so many ways.
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I had all but forgotten about this aspect of it, but reading the article and the internal memos brought back memories :)
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So ahead of its time in some ways. 
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