Premiere: Mazaloom Medieval!

Brand new video series has landed, directly from Simmerville Studio :) This is the story and cast that tell the story of the founders of some of my current TS4 families. In the first season covering 5 weekly episodes you'll follow 5 heroes, and some of them will lead to my Region 12.

This series is created differently from most of my other series. Tech limitations with Sims Medieval forced me to think a new, and hopefully you like the style. There will be a new episode posted every weekend, perhaps the 5th and last episode must wait until I'm back from Christmas vacation, but that will be before end of December anyway. For the first time I actually created most of the episodes *before* releasing anything.

See previous blogpost for an introduction to the cast with links to family trees an more.

I hope you'll enjoy :)

MAZALooM Medieval Cast

The premiere of my brand new video series MAZALooM Medieval is just around the corner. So, I thought it would be a good idea to give you a brief introduction to the cast ;)

Cast and story is actually the origin to many of the families in my current TS4 universe. I had lots of fun trying to match the Sims Medieval looks and limitations with my existing historical facts - that are actually quite many. From my early notes I even knew the DNA of the cast, as well as the birth year of their children etc. Thankfully, I had very restricted notes describing their everyday life except knowing when they got their peerages.

Historical video series coming

It's been quiet on the blog because I've been busy elsewhere, in Mazaloom kingdom to be exact. You might know that I love history and detailed backgrounds for my sims, and although I never played their first decades, I have their full family trees with the main events of their lives. This Fall I grabbed the Sims Medieval game, and I had fun playing out the assumed origin of some of my most noble Houses. And naturally, I had to make a video series based on it all :)

King Baltazar II of Mazaloom

The main royal House of the series was never really given much focus in my game. I don't play royals, only nobilities like dukedoms, baronies and a bunch lords/ladies. House de Froux was top of the bunch back in the early days, and they kept going for a couple generations, before they expired. The throne was taken over by another house and finally ditched as result of the Great Revolution, taking place in Year 118.

My Business - 03 - Photographer

Here is another short video in the "My Business" series! This time you'll meet Photographer Shariff Potterfield from Newcrest. Over the decades he portrayed more than half the population, and now you get to see his underground studio. Please note that this video does not include any Moschino pack features.

Many sims in my Region 12 has jobs or businesses that are not really in-game features, but with money cheat it's easy to pretend and transfer some earnings.

House von Kaching: It's a girl!

(Year 228, Gloomville) House von Kaching announces that yesterday a daughter was born to Lady Merielle and The Hon. Edward. Both child and mother are with good health.

The girl will be named Rosine Beatrice von Kaching, and her proud grandfather, Baron Bud of Gloom, has already been observed strolling in their garden.

Servant Call Bells

(Y228) When a finer household includes Servants, the estate will need more organizing than the regular home. The higher level of society, the more Servants and the better organized home. Still most finer estates have their original Servant Call Bells.

When bell number 2 rings, the Butler at Dresden Farm knows exactly where to go.

Back in the early days high nobility estates like castles and large manors had a system of the traditional Servants Bells. Normally there would be one to six wall mounted bells in or near the kitchen, each connected with a string to one specific location. When the Duchess was in the main living room she could push a small handle - often hidden behind a curtain, to get the Servants' attention. In the kitchen they would see what room in the house to seek, and based on their responsibility within the household, one Servant would walk over to that room.