Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2024 23:47:49 GMT
I think this one is going to be a lot of fun.
From Wikipedia:
Here's a video advertisement which gives you a picture of what the website looked like.
We're dealing with potentially thousands of lost homemade games from this website. The site is accessible from the Wayback Machine, but I can't get any of the games to load. Is there a way to get any of these up and running?
From Wikipedia:
From the studio that created The Sims and SimCity, SimsCarnival.com was an online community centered on playing, creating and sharing games with a vibrant ecosystem of players and creators.
The online community was supported by a suite of game creation tools, audio and graphic asset packs, a YouTube-style website with a leaderboard and other social features, plenty of first-party games, ongoing content releases, community support, and countless user-generated games across many genres (e.g. sports, puzzles, adventure games, racing games, tower defense games, and Angry Birds-style games).
Three game creation tools—The Wizard, The Swapper and The Game Creators—assisted the players with game design. The Wizard led players through the process of creating a game step-by-step with intuitive options designed to help them create their own game (e.g., make their own Tower Defense game) with a library of game genres to choose from. The Swapper let players customize existing games – or newly made games from The Wizard — with their own selection of images, aiding in game personalization. With The Game Creator, and its library of images, animations and sounds, individuals could create a game from scratch or dive deep into customizing another player's creation.
Intended as a game about games, the mission of SimsCarnival.com was to democratize the art of game creation. Because the games were "open source", players could take someone else's creation, give the original creators attributions and customize the games as they see fit (e.g., apply different graphics and storyline).
SimsCarnival.com debuted at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) in February 2008 with a keynote speech by the studio head of The Sims. The service ceased in January 2011.
The online community was supported by a suite of game creation tools, audio and graphic asset packs, a YouTube-style website with a leaderboard and other social features, plenty of first-party games, ongoing content releases, community support, and countless user-generated games across many genres (e.g. sports, puzzles, adventure games, racing games, tower defense games, and Angry Birds-style games).
Three game creation tools—The Wizard, The Swapper and The Game Creators—assisted the players with game design. The Wizard led players through the process of creating a game step-by-step with intuitive options designed to help them create their own game (e.g., make their own Tower Defense game) with a library of game genres to choose from. The Swapper let players customize existing games – or newly made games from The Wizard — with their own selection of images, aiding in game personalization. With The Game Creator, and its library of images, animations and sounds, individuals could create a game from scratch or dive deep into customizing another player's creation.
Intended as a game about games, the mission of SimsCarnival.com was to democratize the art of game creation. Because the games were "open source", players could take someone else's creation, give the original creators attributions and customize the games as they see fit (e.g., apply different graphics and storyline).
SimsCarnival.com debuted at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) in February 2008 with a keynote speech by the studio head of The Sims. The service ceased in January 2011.
Here's a video advertisement which gives you a picture of what the website looked like.
We're dealing with potentially thousands of lost homemade games from this website. The site is accessible from the Wayback Machine, but I can't get any of the games to load. Is there a way to get any of these up and running?
