About this Blog
Welcome to the Legacy of the Grey Family. This will be chronicling the trials and tribulations of the Grey family as they move up the rungs of Sunset’s Valley’s society.
(Fair warning: most of these are literal walls of text…)
My Rules
This is overall going to be a fairly standard “Legacy” game, which is a method of play where you focus solely on one family lot over successive generations. Over my years playing Sims, I’ve found this the most satisying way to play, and I’m very excited to see how this work out in Sims 3. (As this version with it’s Story Progression and persistent neighborhood seem particularly well-suited to this style of play.)
Why I’m Doing a Blog
For Sims 2, while I always enjoyed reading other players’ Legacy stories, it was never something I’ve actually attempted before. I found I really got into making use of the Album function in that game – taking lots of pictures to kind of keep track of my Sims’ stories. I found it very easy to do this in-game, and it was nice to be able to look at and reflect on what had happened in the past.
Writing Style
There’s a lot of really good approaches to narrating a Legacy to be found all through this site. I’m starting to find I’m really liking the “journal” approach to this. (Where it’s written in first-person as if the Sim were posting their own Blog about their lives.) This seems so obvious that I wish I’d thought about it before I’d started doing mine - because it makes a lot of sense and I find it really compelling.
Process
Just some notes on my process for writing this Blog.
I’m a big fan of the “standard” format for blogging these Legacies (large screenshots connected by narration – in a vertical format.) I find it clean, concise, and easy to read. I was looking to doing something a little bit different, though. I have a Sequential Art background (which is a fancy of saying “I went to school to learn how to draw comics…) So it feels more natural to me have text and pictures presented in a more integrated manner than alternating text and screenshots.
About Me
Just a little bit about yours truly.
I’m a 30-year-old aspiring artist, currently engaged to a wonderful lady who is currently with the US Coast Guard. (This means we do a lot of moving at the moment, which is always an adventure, and we never really know where we’re going to be going next – even if it often means that I don’t get to see her as often as I’d like.)
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