Coming very soon: The Bagged Talent!

Get ready for this Winter's great TS4 entertainment: The Bagged Talent!

Simmerville Studio proudly announces the sim version of the popular «The Masked Singer», also known as «Maskorama». This time the contenders are BAGGED, and you are invited to guess and vote through a series of 6 short episodes where they perform various activities to show off their talents!

Contenders:The Enraged, The Duchess, Long Gone, Mester Mellow,
The Knight, The Alien, Happy and The Flirty.

The contenders will reveal their skills (which will vary quite a bit) in Singing, Fitness and Dancing, to mention just a few of the activities during the 6 shows. They will also give clues to who they are. Costumes, voices and clues might be there to confuse you, but their performances will be the right thing - just bagged. The board panel consisting of two well known Mazaloomians will guess their identity, and the audience will probably, too! You are of course welcome to vote on your favorites!

The Moon Lisa painting coming to Mazaloom!

(Year 230, Spring) It's a masterpiece, it's a legend, and it has never before been exhibited in Mazaloom. No wonder National Museum curator Nancy D. Roxenfox (63) is super enthusiastic when announcing the arrival of famous Snorthia painting, «Moon Lisa»!

Famous painting «Moon Lisa» is coming to Mazaloom!

Today she invited a few journalists to her Gloomville office, to share the great news.

King Tarriot addresses equality

(Year 230, Spring) The royal palace has informed the press that there will be a press meeting later this Spring, addressing equality of genders. Now, a press meeting initiated by the royal palace is nothing new, especially not under the current Monarch, in fact there is a short press meeting most Mondays following their 3M (Monday Morning Meeting). But this time it will be addressing a specific subject, which happens to be one of His Royal Majesty King Tarriot's personal heart causes: Equality between genders.

His Majesty did once state that he would never have accepted the position as King of Mazaloom if it was a male only system. To many residents this is an echo from the past, as his grandfather, King Tybe, obviously shared this concern when the royal family was reinstated in Year 150. Back then King Tybe had the constitution adjusted to allow for oldest child to inherit the Crown, regardless of gender.

Adrian Triplets Celebrating YA Birthday!

(Year 230, Spring) There's no doubt the triplets Tamara, Khloe and Clara Adrian will make the single male population of Mazaloom line up, in fact - they probably already are quite popular! Last night they celebrated their young adult birthday at Planet Honey Pop! at Fashion District in San Myshuno.

Triplet's birthday party at Planet Honey Pop!

The 3 sisters had invited their friends to a hangout at the well known karaoke bar.

The Simmerville Show #3

(Year 230, Spring) Fritz Mervil is here with the 3rd issue of The Simmerville Show, recorded at Fun Factory with a live audience! This time the guests discuss high school, royal blood, acting and politics. You will recognize a couple guests even if you don't follow this blog.

The Simmerville Show is a nifty way for me to share stories and builds from my Mazaloom. There's plenty of references to the past, but you won't need any knowledge of my sims universe to watch, neither will there be many links between the shows. Each show lasts about 8-10 minutes.

I hope you'll enjoy :)

Internal Community Stats

 While waiting for the Simmerville Show to air (took a bit longer than planned, but nearly there!), I decided to share some tidbits from my internal stats!

These are facts from my universe that are not linked from neither this blog nor the associated website. It's simply not intended for the public view, but then I thought some of you might be interested in a quick look, anyway!

Airing soon: The Simmerville Show #3

It's been a while, but now the Simmerville Show is back with many guests and a live audience!

Host Fritz Mervil promises an interesting set of guests. And the live audience is as cheering as always!

Fritz Mervil is CEO of Simmerville Studio and is hosting the show.

- We found that the concept works very well with four guests per show - reduced to three if there is a longer out-of-the-house entry. There is a long list of people wanting to guest the show, which makes it a bless to pick a good combination. We want each show to offer something serious, some gossip and some celebrity. Some guests should be practically unknown to the TV audience, but then there will normally be someone who most viewers will love or hate.

This Blog, this Winter

I have tons of plans for both my game and content for this blog. The planned stuff is mostly for my own notes, but also because some of you might like to see how I play and perhaps get inspired to develop your own universe.

Don't hesitate leaving a comment on what you might like to read about! Here's some of those plans:

King Tarriot appoints Rob Wilder as Mazaloom's President

(Year 230, Spring) Following any election it's tradition for the upcoming President to visit the royal palace. The Monarch appoints the President, and the latter presents the new structure of The People Chamber. This week President Rob Wilder (RIGHT party) had audience with His Royal Majesty King Tarriot. Wilder's life partner, Holly Alto, joined him, but aside of greeting the Monarch, she had no related function at the meeting.

Wilder and King Tarriot spent nearly an hour in the king's office. The 21 seats of The People Chamber was shared between the political parties according to the election results, except 2 seats that have been reserved Church of Similius ever since Year 140. Now the 21 persons form the 5 departments - 5 members of the Law & Justice dept., 4 members of each of the other depts.

Educational Format Adjusted

(Year 230, Spring) The new Science & Education department has already proposed their first big case to The People Chamber, and today it was clear that all three chambers did approve on the Education Act.

The adjustments are minor, but will make it easier for everyone to navigate not only between possible school offers, but also through their own study.

The new Science & Education department visits The Showbiz Academy in Del Sol Valley. Left to right: Knox Greenburg, Evergreen Harbor (MIDDLE), Leader Emma Ratchild, Tartosa (RIGHT), Jurton Summerton, Britechester (LEFT) and Bianca Sterner, Crafthole (LEFT).

Last week the Science & Education dept. traveled to meet all Principals to discuss the new format with them, and also to see the many educational institutions.