The Sims Carnival
Sims Carnival has been officially announced by EA at this years GDC and a Closed Beta has begun, if you head over to the site and register you will be in with a chance of being involved.
What is The Sims Carnival?
The Sims Carnival is a new online community and gaming experience from The Sims that makes game creation and sharing more accessible and fun than ever before.
The introduction of this new creative endeavor from The Sims is designed to convert millions of players into game designers - no programming skills required!
While this is early days and we only have limited information regarding The Sims Carnival this certainly does seem innovative. The chance to develop your own game…without the need for programming skills! I have applied for the Closed Beta, and I really hope to get in and give my thoughts on this. Time will tell whether this turns out good or bad, but I for one want to see how it does turn out.
REDWOOD CITY, CA. — February 21, 2007 — Today, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced an invitation to participate in a special closed beta at The Sims Carnival™, a new online community and gaming experience from The Sims™ studio An innovative online destination, TheSimsCarnival.com empowers members to play, create and share casual games within an online community. This announcement comes out of today’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in a speech presented by the Head of The Sims Studio, Rod Humble.
With the launch of TheSimsCarnival.com, hundreds of games will be available to play and as members create and contribute games this number will grow. The online community is made to be collaborative, so that designing games becomes a fun and shared creative process. To design games, TheSimsCarnival.com provides game creation tools for a range of user skill sets so that millions of players can become game designers with no prior programming abilities necessary. TheSimsCarnival.com will be available to the public online in spring 2008.
“We’re very excited to launch TheSimsCarnival.com, a new and accessible gaming experience that gives players all the tools they need to play, create and share games online with friends,” said Rod Humble, Head of The Sims Studio. “Whether you’re a new player who wants to simply customize a game with a family photo, a gamer who always wanted to make the best platformer or a seasoned expert ready to create the next big game, TheSimsCarnival.com makes game creation and publication easier than ever before.”
To potentially be selected for participation in a closed Beta for TheSimsCarnival.com, create a new account at TheSimsCarnival.com.
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