SJ Longthorne

I’m saying this as someone who has maxed the character limit for a bunch of MMOs I didn’t care for and who stops playing Sims at the ‘now play it’ part

It works out pretty well sometimes. Partner: *starts Dark Souls AGAIN* Me: so can I create your character or

We are planning to add an in depth character creator to our platform at some point, so I'm curious: is it just about creating characters that makes it fun for you, or would you like something to be done with those characters? Be it with or without your input?

For me it’s straight up just the opportunity to exercise creativity and create a person. The more I can tweak, the closer I can get them to my vision...

As someone who gave up art a long time ago, I basically use character creation tools in games as ways to realise the characters in the stories I write. And the gameplay almost always dissatisfies me because it doesn’t match the story in my head. So bit of a specific case there.

If it’s just creating how a character looks, then it’s enough for me just to make them. That in itself is a day well spent, where I have the tools to exercise a skill I loved but never learned and still have it look great.

However, if there are personality tools in there (like in the Sims) then I become eager to see how those will manifest in practice. Unfortunately this doesn’t feel particularly meaningful or satisfying in the Sims though and I soon churn out.

For instance, one thing I like to do in Sims is make my people, set them free into the world, let time pass and check in later to see how their traits manifested in terms of relationships/careers, etc. Usually it’s not very exciting though. I wish it was.