#brightmaple

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Round Seventeen - Amiri II is on my DW!

Jalil and Gloria expand their family as Gloria integrates with her stepkids beautifully, crafting is a priority, and Clover is territorial!

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Hobbies and sub-hobbies

I've been working on implementing a sub-hobby system in my game recently and really enjoying it! I took a look at the different activities available for different hobbies and came up with my list, which I thought I'd share here.

I do have some mods that change the hobby enthusiasm of some objects, or add new ones - I'll link where applicable.

I don't assign these based on any system, just vibes. I usually stick with whatever hobby the game assigns, but I do sometimes change them if it really feels like it doesn't fit to me. The sub-hobbies are intended to be a main focus, but Sims can and will still try other aspects of their overall hobby, and other hobbies altogether sometimes too!

The list is a work in progress but I'm basically happy with it now.

Edited: I found a version of the punching bag that gives fitness enthusiasm instead of sports, and that activity makes more sense to me as a fitness thing, so I moved that sub-hobby over.

Edited x2: Combined a couple gaming subhobbies into "Social Games" and added MyShuno to that category.

Edited x2: Combined sewing and knitting into Fibre Arts under Arts & Crafts hobbies.

Cuisine

Cooking

Baking

Wine & Cocktails

Foodie (restaurants, delivery)

Films & Literature

Reading

Writing (helpful but not necessary to also have this mod)

Movies

Tinkering

Restoring & Repairing (restorable car, general repairs, plus drafting blueprints thanks to a mod)

Woodworking (here and here)

Tinker Toys (RC cars, model trains, toy workbench)

Sports

Soccer

Basketball

Sports Fan (watching sports)

Golf (Execuputter reward object made buyable)

Baseball

Football

Music & Dance

Dancing

Ballet

Piano/Keyboard

Synthesizer

Violin

Singing

Guitar

Bass

Drums

Fitness

Swimming

Lifting & Cardio

Yoga

Boxing (with modded hanging bag from here - unlocked buyable punching bag still gives sports hobby, but it seems more like a fitness thing to me as a solo activity)

Arts & Crafts

Painting

Pottery

Photography (hugely aided by the buyable antique camera and Epi and PF's camera overhaul mod)

Fibre Arts (sewing, knitting with Eisbaer's edit of TonyVeis' 4t2 mod)

Science

Stargazing/Aliens

Biotech (buyable Biotech station and microscopes with science enthusiasm added)

Robotics (this mod makes robotics science related which makes far more sense to me)

Games

Video Games (console, handheld, computer, arcade games)

Board Games (chess, Don't Wake the Llama, mahjong)

Social Games (darts, poker, pool, bowling, MyShuno)

Nature

Entomology (hunting bugs, catching fireflies and butterflies)

Animals (small pets like womrats, birds, koi fish, bird watching)

Gardening (harvestable crops, orchard trees - I play with perfect plants mod so they don't have to maintain flowers and shrubs)

Outdoorsy (fishing, hiking, camping, cloud watching)

Flower Arranging (this mod changes the enthusiasm on the flower bench to nature)

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I've made a very different style of YouTube video from my usual!

I finally buckled down and made a whole video about my gameplay style, which has been gelling slowly over the last couple years. I've discussed it here before and around the community in general, but after seeing a video from another creator discussing their feelings about wants-based gameplay, I finally got the kick in the ass I needed to get this made.

Although the other video was speaking more to wants-based gameplay in let's play content shared on YouTube, I think it's fun and interesting to share our gameplay approaches more generally. I know I've gotten tons of inspiration from reading and watching other people's games, so hopefully this will also be a little bit of inspiration for you if you need it!

(and yes, the narrator Sim is an approximate representation of me!)

Watch here!

(also yes, I had to reupload and relink this within the first hour - video glitches!)

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Veronica is a fortune Sim with the cuisine hobby, so I knew she was going to own a restaurant one day since she was a kid!

As a nod to her family's Italian heritage, she was also the natural choice to finally build the Italian restaurant I'd had on my to do list for ages. I felt really inspired for this one and love how it turned out - I wanted it to feel like the Sims were dining in a wine cellar.

So, this is her restaurant La Cantina Marinara! You can see the speed build video here too. :)

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Neighbourhood plumbbobs, they could never make me hate you

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Anya's new house, a woods witch cottage on the edge of town!

Speed build video is here if you're interested!

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I can't stop taking pictures of HIM!

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Playing some Downtown Heights households, love to see the city!

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Built a fast food restaurant for my Sims! Named it McLlama's (name stolen from @slyndseyy!) and I love how it turned out. Needed somewhere very casual to eat and hang out at, especially for teens.

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I put in new terrain and road defaults :) small facelift for Brightmaple!

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Brightmaple, end of fall, round 17!

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Baby Nathan's nursery!

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I finally built a community lot for weddings and parties in general! I'd actually started to build it a few weeks ago, but lost steam after I did most of the exterior. Then, lucky me, the Party Essentials kit got converted by @tvickiesims and the rest of the talented crew, so I got a lot of inspiration to finish it up!

Since I have buy mode enabled on community lots, I'll be able to change up the colour scheme of the decor depending on the party. There's a couple spots for cute photo ops, I never use the antique camera object but this would be such a cute lot to do it! Hard to place the cameras close enough that it looks realistic but not so close that it gets in the way of the shot. But I think I found a happy medium.

Most of the chairs are on walk around or walk through blocks so I could cram them closer together without routing issues. Only thing I might do after one last look is move down the balloon decorations above the photoshoot area indoors.

See after the jump for tester Sim shots in action!

My tester couple for the wedding just sat themselves down like this autonomously and I thought it was so cute lol.

Had to put an invisible fence in to keep Sims from dancing behind the DJ booth, can't stand that! But problem solved!

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Ronald started up a new business downtown, a noodle shop called Noble Izakaya.

I figured out soon after playing it that the ticket machine wasn't necessary, and that running a business with the BV food stands is super easy and pretty fun!

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Yuki got a new little princess bedroom this round!

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Downtown vibes