Developer Blog: Designing Character Traits in the Sims 3

[Ricalynn]

Ray Mazza has worked for Maxis for 10 years and he has his own website/blog where he writes interesting articles.

Today's talks all about Designing Character Traits for Sims 3.

http://www.raymazza.com/1/post/2013/05/designing-character-traits-in-the-sims-3.html

[Trip]

Insightful!

I never knew that the community had such a distaste for the unflirty trait, though. I like that trait! I think I've had more unflirty sims than friendly sims.

[Turoskel]

That was very interesting, personally I'm very glad things like clumsy were added in, I'm dreadfully clumsy so it was one of the first traits I picked when creating my self sim, it does little game wise but it makes her more real to me.

And great kisser in the top five, I often pick that, I like the moodlet it gives for one, also as my self sim has repeatedly married a great kisser, Dallas Shallow I notice how it does make them more affectionate, he is also flirty but even so he does like to kiss more than anything, will even meet her at the gate when she comes home just for a kiss, if I have a trait slot that doesn't need a particular skill related one I tend to use great kisser, excitable or neurotic for the extra moodlets you can get.

And Evil sims based on Mr Burns, now I've read that it seems so obvious 

[Zyffyr]

Very interesting.

Of the top 4, my personal favorite is Great Kisser (probably 2/3 of the adult sims I make have it). Always a nice little something to round out a character.

[shaunta]

This was really neat. It's so intresting so see the actual thought process that went into making the trait system. It is something that we all love and enjoy. Thanks fir sharing Ricalynn

[Louise56]

Thanks for the link Rica, it was very interesting. He have a great blog!

[Swirl-Girl]

That was so cool!