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.

However, this video series covers only the first 5 years, with 5 episodes each lasting 10 minutes. The response will decide whether I make more seasons as I intend following the Mazaloom kingdom onwards. It is in these first years my played houses are involved anyway; House of Saxor, House of Thebe, House of Brixerwood and House von Donnersmalt. I will introduce the main characters in a soon to come post, as the series go online in less than a week - on November 28th!

Sims Medieval is rather tricky to use for movie making though, as I prefer capturing the screen rather than using the built-in video tool. So, this series is made in a different way than anything I did before - it might be hot or not. It made production less time consuming, and works kind of as a documentary format, I think. You'll find out for yourself this coming weekend!

Added: Episode 1