ACMI Guide: The Sims - Softcover

• From the everyday imagination of Live Mode to the endless creativity of Build Mode, The Sims has become the world’s most successful life simulation and a cultural phenomenon. This book explores how players turned a digital dollhouse into a stage for creativity, identity and storytelling. Featuring interviews with game makers who’ve been there since the beginning and today’s community creators, alongside cultural analysis and a look at artistic interventions, this book reveals how architecture, fashion and fan-made content transformed the game into a platform for self-expression and social commentary. It captures the playful contradictions of a series where players are architects of imagination – shaping, experimenting and discovering what happens when life itself becomes the game.

Pages: 80

Published: 2025

Size (cm): 14.8 x 21

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