SimmedUp Magazine - Issue 13 - Birthday 'Sims' special

Director:TheMomCave
I am so excited, Beni, to be featuring
you and your wonderful Machinima,
Age of Darkness in this special issue of
SimmedUp Magazine. Of course, I
always must start with the usual
question! When did you start playing
The Sims, and what got you started?
Thank you so much for featuring and
interviewing me. It’s exciting.
I got familiar with The Sims 2 back around
2006-2007 when I saw my cousins play it all
the time. It seemed very interesting, but I
preferred watching them play rather than
playing with it myself. Then, I think it was in
2013, so it was actually the very last year of
The Sims 3, when I bought the game for my
sister’s birthday and we both started playing
and have been ever since.
What is your favorite Sims game and
why?
Definitely The Sims 3. It has so much content it
never gets boring in my opinion. I also consider
myself lucky because I didn’t really have
lagging issues with it, which was a huge
problem for most of the players.
What type of game play do you enjoy
the most?
It might come as a shock, considering that my
series is supernatural but the only game play
that excites me is family game play. My first
sim is usually a young adult woman who
struggles at work to achieve her dreams.
When she gets to a certain level in her career,
she starts dating and a couple of weeks later
she’s married with 3 kids. I also love slowly
adjusting the starter homes to the family and
I always stay on the same lot where I started.
Nothing else feels like home.
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I certainly share this with you!
Whenever I start a new save, I like to
start with a single female, no money,
trash apartment. Then, it seems like the
first time she leaves her house she
meets someone and gets pregnant. My
current household has eight kids. Let’s
not talk about what the genealogy of my
personal save looks like!
Why did you start making machinima,
and how long have you been making
them?
I was always into film-making, me, my sister,
and my cousins used to film tons of movies
when we were kids, we filmed news broadcast
spoofs as well, and it was super fun! Then I came
across Miboy1991’s series called INSIDE, and I was
stunned. It was around 2016 and I thought I had
to give it a try. My first ever machinima, The
Hotel, ran for 13 episodes in 2017 but I got
overwhelmed and stopped making it. I was also
not really part of the machinima community
back then, which is completely on me because I
was such a lone wolf around that time. Then
when the pandemic hit last year, I had a ton of
free time so I thought: “Why shouldn’t I give it
another go?” I had plenty of stories planned out
and I went with Age of Darkness. It was very
different when I started it but I am very proud of
what it has become.
I feel like 2020 was the year for creators
to start, or to restart exploring making
content. Most of us had more free time
on our hands than we had ever
experienced before. I believe this was a
big part of the return of the machinima.
Not that it went away completely, but
there was certainly a lull in what and how
many new series were being developed.
What do you love the most about being a