Simprov's Wedding Construction Kit for The Sims

Thursday, April 15
Simprov's Wedding Construction Kit for The Sims
with Don Hopkins

The Sims is a game about everyday life, like a virtual dollhouse populated with simulated people. You can build homes, decorate and furnish them, create families of characters, and direct their lives, and tell stories about them. Players can create their own character skins, object graphics and programmed behaviors. Simprov supports improvisational storytelling with The Sims. The "Wedding Construction Kit" is an independently developed set of specially programmed characters and objects, which you can add to the game. You can plug them together like Legos, to build your own dream wedding, or the shotgun wedding from hell. Don Hopkins, one of the original Sims programmers who worked with Will Wright at Maxis, will demonstrate the Wedding Construction Kit, as well as behind-the-scenes tools used to create and program Sims objects, including Transmogrifier, RugOMatic and SimAntics.

Don Hopkins programmed a multi player networked version of SimCity for Unix workstations, and developed The Sims character animation system, user interface, content creation tools, and ported The Sims Online to Linux for Maxis. He also programmed the robots for Will Wright's "Stupid Fun Club" studio, for two one-minute reality TV programs about a Broken Robot and the Robot Waiter.

http://www.TheSimsTransmogrifier.com
http://www.TheSimsTransmogrifier.com/Objects/simprov-scene.jpg
http://www.TheSimsTransmogrifier.com/Objects/simprov-moonlight.jpg
http://www.TheSimsTransmogrifier.com/Objects/simprov-bride.jpg

Location: Blue Bongo Cafe (Little Pedros)
901 E. 1st Street, 90012
One block east of Alameda...
plenty of free safe parking.
Donation :: $5.00 [for our dj's!]
Evening kicks off at 8pm