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Playing House

by Frank Carney · 08/20/2007 (4:57 am) · 4 comments

I am a grown man and I am playing house! I recently picked up the PC version of Morrowind. I had been confined to the Xbox version and wanted to run all the cool mods others have made. Well, some of my favorite mods involve getting empty houses and putting furniture, plants, and people in them. No, I am not using the editor for this. Other modders have made mods for doing all of this inside the game. I spent hours setting up a small apartment with large closets, a fireplace, chandeliers, mannequins to show off armor I had collected, a bed, table, chairs, plants, etc. With the Better Bodies mod I could also add a hot chick to the apartment.

What is wrong with me!? Well, it made me realize that I am not all that interested in conquering the world in games anymore. I want to build MY place, world, etc. Also, I don't want to use an editor either. The Morrowind editor is clunky, old, and buggy. I want an in game editor that I can do everything (well, most everything) the game allows.

So, I am doing just that. I am creating an in game editor that will let me forge my own world. I will be able to put potted plants anywhere, even on my head.

"GIVE ME SOME CANDY! I AM CRAZY, I'VE GOT A PLANT ON MY HEAD!"
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Torque Owner Shane Cloutier
#1
08/20/2007 (6:21 am)
Have you looked at the ps3 game called Little Big People, its all about that. After you play through the little challenges that come with the game you have one hell of an editor , some of the videos show them modifying thier chars with it. I think after the whole sims explosion alot of game developers have found there is a really large market out there for like you put it "playing house".

Torque Owner Simon Love
#2
08/20/2007 (2:31 pm)
Little big planet you mean?

Torque Owner Dustin Sims
#3
08/21/2007 (1:37 am)
Quote:
"GIVE ME SOME CANDY! I AM CRAZY, I'VE GOT A PLANT ON MY HEAD!"

I definately get where your coming from...

" I'M CRAZY KEYBOARD CHIN.... NOW GIVE ME THE CANDY!!!! "

Torque Owner Frank Carney
#4
08/21/2007 (2:57 am)
Shane,
I haven't seen that. Of course I live a sheltered life with no PS3 or 360. When I see it in the stores I will have to check it out. Is it a modern game setting? I think mine will be more medieval, but once I get the engine up and running it could be any genre. Oh, although the Sims looks interesting, there has just been something about it I don't like. It could be that I want to make a game that is not online, because I would like a playground that is safe for little kids. The internet is not exactly a place I want to turn my kids loose just yet.

Dustin,
Yeah, I didn't get the quote just right, but you know who I am talkin' about. I just watched the new version of The Longest Yard. So I am feeling a bit CRAZY!!!