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The Sims 4 – 30 Screens from GDC (Alpha Software)

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Take a look at some of the screens of The Sims 4 Alpha. These screens were shown on Game Developer Conference for ”Concurrent Interactions in The Sims 4” presentation.

In real life, people often do several things at the same time, but games typically limit agents to performing actions sequentially. For The Sims 4, we developed a system for authoring interactions that allows simulated people (called Sims) to express multiple concurrent behaviors. Interactions are largely data-driven and are defined in terms of constraints, which specify the state a Sim must be in to perform the interaction. Constraints are used to test whether interactions are compatible, and to drive decisions that Sims make about whether, how and where to perform an interaction. This system allows Sims in The Sims 4 to convincingly eat, watch TV, chat with other Sims, express emotion, and perform many more behaviors simultaneously. We believe that this powerful and simple technique could be applied to a similar effect in your game too.

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Source: Rincon Del Simmer

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BR€NT
BR€NT
10 years ago

Thanks so much! I really look forward to playing The Sims 4!

Jaguwar
Jaguwar
10 years ago

All of a sudden I’m interested in TS4 again. This was a pretty big lack in previous iterations of the game, I’m glad to see an attempt to break new ground in this direction. Nice work team TS4!

Trevor
Trevor
10 years ago
Reply to  Jaguwar

Oh MY GOD U DIDNT LIKE SIMS 4 BEFORE OH MY GOSH IM TELLING LOL

Trevor
Trevor
10 years ago

Englishspeakingsim NEW CHEAT TO MAKE SIMS SPEAK ENGLISH

Trevornosey
Trevornosey
10 years ago
Reply to  Trevor

WHY U GOT SAME NAME AS ME

Trevor
Trevor
10 years ago
Reply to  Trevornosey

Well i was on here first oh oops im the owner of these 2 lol 😛 ?:-) :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:

trevornosey
trevornosey
10 years ago

hELLO GUYS 😀