Talk:SimsVille/GA1

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Nominator: Vrxces (talk · contribs) 08:24, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Cambalachero (talk · contribs) 19:58, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

File:Simsville-comeingsoon.png Y, non-free file with rationale. However, the rationale "To show an important phase of the game" sounds a bit vague and may be improved. Y Completely forgot about these. Yes, they're a bit sloppy. I've added in a rationale.
File:Simsville-unknown.png Y, but has a similar issue. Y

Do we know the engine the game would have used? Comment: The game used a new custom engine that was later used in SimCity 4. The engine doesn't seem to have a name, as it was built specifically for the game. As such, available sources don't have a name for the engine.
Do we know the names of the director, producer, designer, programmer, and artist? The game may have been cancelled, but they still worked on it. Comment: Sadly not, other than one interview with the executive producer, which I've added. Only Will Wright and the EA marketing people talked about the cancellation after it happened. We can probably guess some from blogs, like Ocean Quigley being the art director, but there's no direct primary or reliable sources saying so.
"...is a cancelled simulation video game game..." Y
"The game was conceived as a hybrid between the gameplay of The Sims and SimCity." You should explain the gameplay things being merged, do not take it for granted that the reader knows those other video games. But not too much: just that SimCity is a city builder and the Sims a family/household simulator. Y

Seems fine. Reference 1 says to be from 2006 and talks about it as an upcoming game, but ends saying "...it's expected to ship early in 2002", so I guess the 2006 date is a mistake from Gamespot and not something that may be fixed here. Comment: This is a known issue with GameSpot's archiving of articles, which were all attributed with that date. Some people put "Date mislabeled" in the citation to flag this, so I've done that. The URLs don't have the original articles on the Internet Archive.

Change the link of simulation video game to the more specific Life simulation game. Y
Reference 9 (IGN) is a dead link Y
"SimsVille was developed from the ground-up using entirely new code." That's usually to be expected from new games. You should consider the context of the reference: that the game might seem to be reusing code from the failed project of making SimCity 3000 3D, but it actually isn't. Comment: Good point, we should clarify we mean the engine here. I think that can be fairly implied from the sources.