Issue 17

By the time I’d turned up at EventCity UK
I had already been awake for five hours.
Fuelled by giddiness and a lovely bacon
bap from a motorway service station, I
and around three hundred other Simmers
were queuing to enter the Simmers
Meetup 2016, the third event organised
by BeyondSims and Rachybop. This year,
the event took us to Manchester, and
there was plenty in store!
I missed last year’s event, but there
were plenty of familiar faces from the
2014 event and Twitter, like one of my
favourites, Simtastic World! It was also
wonderful to meet the lovely Mollie (you
might know her as The English Simmer),
whose vlog will be over the page, as well
as Luke the Plumbob and his amazing
shiny jacket! That’s not to mention the
hilarious Steph0Sims, who it was great to
meet!
The Sims Resource had a presence at this
year’s event, and had machines set up
to play every game - The Sims 1 through
to The Sims 4! Unfortunately, The Sims 1
wouldn’t play ball with Windows 7, but
we all had a wonderful time! They were
holding a lucky dip of sorts, and we all
came away with a free VIP membership
for a week. Find out more about them
here.
The venue was huge, and a wall of Sims
umbrellas kept us from straying where
we shouldn’t have! EA took over a corner
of the hall with their Pods, which allowed
you to play not just The Sims 4 but also
The Sims Freeplay and SimCity BuildIt!
We popped over there with Steph and
Luke, where Steph found the fact that
Freeplay has toddlers and pre-teens hard
to swallow...
@smagofcl 7