Sim City Inside The Sims - Russian Doll Effect?

Ant writes "According to Wired News: 'It was bound to happen. First there was SimCity. Then there was The Sims. And then came a series of highly successful expansion packs like Hot Date, Livin' Large, House Party and others. Now comes a fan-made plug-in that allows Sims characters to effectively play SimCity inside The Sims. The Sims franchise has gone meta.'"

Re:The Ultimate Paradox

[Mod Me God]

Perhaps we are Sims in some kid's bedroom but we just don't know it.

I'll take the blue pill.

Dark Life in Second Life

[Critter92]

In a similar way, some Second Life [slashdot.org] users decided that they wanted to be able to play a traditional RPG within Second Life. The result of their creation was Dark Life [secondlife.com], captured in SL's New World Notes [blogs.com]. The Dark Lifers have been quite successful and have drawn many players into their game, including many new users. In addition to the usual creature killing, magic spells, healing and leveling, they have also introduced some very interesting twists on traditional RPG gameplay.

Someone should write a book about that...

[Anonytroll]

...seriously.
What we have here is a game that has been merchandised and capitalised almost to death (how many expansion packs are out again? 4?) and now they have been crossing the borderline from gaming to metagaming. I'm pretty sure a lot of those who metaplay would make interesting vic... patients for modern psychologists.

this has been done before in reverse

[kommakazi]

Anyone else remember the games Streets of Sim City, where you could import your SimCity save files then drive/walk around in the city you made. This game was way ahead of it's time...think VIce City/GTA3 except it game out in 1997 so the graphics weren't quite up to par but the gameplay was quite similar. There was also SimCopter where you got to fly helipoter missions around in SimCities you built and imported.

Re:Ouch!

[theantix]

Even better is the quote at the bottom of your linked page: "Windowcat Designs, Inc.: Do you need help starting a new website, or someone to host your existing site? Check out www.windowcat.com for full-service web site development services and affordable hosting options by familiar folks."

Yes, after seeing an example of their mad HTML skillz I'm dying to pay them to design sites for me. Hell, I know people who design better looking sites than that who are literally colourblind. And I'm not going to touch on "NETSCAPE USERS: This site is best viewed using an IE 6.0+ browser. Click here to get one free". Fucking twits.