The Sims Carnival Series

Do you remember The Sims Carnival, the online website that allowed users to create their own online games with ease?  Well, not many of you do because it did not quite do that well.  It did have a good run, but its time is up – it shall be ending its service on January 16, 2011.  If you did happen to have any games on the website, it is not too late to download them to your harddrive!

Dear The Sims Carnival player,

We are writing to inform you that The Sims Carnival website will not be available after January 16, 2011 as we are concluding the service to focus on future games.  We’ve all enjoyed the game creation tools and the fun games on The Sims Carnival.

Beginning January 17, 2011, content will not be accessible including created or modified content as well as embedded links to games on The Sims Carnival. However, you can download custom game files and the Game Creator before the service ends if you’d like to play locally.

We thank you for playing with us on The Sims Carnival. We hope you’ve enjoyed the site as much as we have and that we’ll see you again in another great EA game!

Thank you,
The Sims Carnival Team

The Sims Carnival, a website dedicated for the average joe to be able to create their own games has opened up to the public.  While it is still it the beta stages, everyone can now create an account and start creating games with ease!

While I did get the chance to be a beta-tester, I was never able to create a game as I just couldn’t get the hang of it.  Perhaps it has changed a little more as that was 4 months ago.  But regardless, if you always wanted to make your own games, check out The Sims Carnival and give it a shot!

GUILDFORD, UK — June 17, 2008 — The Sims™, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) Label, today announced that TheSimsCarnival.com is now in Open Beta and available online at http://www.TheSimsCarnival.com with added content, features and new game creation options. This games destination website has hundreds of games of all kinds and creators are adding more everyday. There is bound to be a game that you love — and if not, you can make it! Since its inception in February, 2008, TheSimsCarnival.com has built an active online community where nearly 1 in 4 visitors during Closed Beta have created and published their own games. The tools provided at the site empower players to become game creators at any programming skill level, from novice to Flash developers.

 

With hundreds of unique and cool games to play, there is a game for everybody — you won’t find this selection of games anywhere else. Making games is so easy at TheSimsCarnival.com, so you will see new and unique games and experiences to enjoy everyday. Come and check them out!

 

Three tools — The Wizard, The Swapper and The Game Creator — are your assistants in game design. The Wizard leads you through the process of creating a game step-by-step with intuitive and fun options designed to help you make the coolest game. The Swapper let’s you customize existing games – or newly made games from The Wizard – with your own selection of images, so personalizing a game is at your fingertips. With The Game Creator, and it’s easy to use library of images, animations and sounds, everyone can create cool games.

You can also upload games created in Adobe® Flash® that can be viewed, played and shared with TheSimsCarnival.com community. Flash developers interested in uploading their games to the site should go to http://wwww.TheSimsCarnival.com/portal/upload/flashgame and follow the instructions to get your game up. Flash developers will be able to retain branding and links back to their developer site, providing another way to get exposure and traffic for their games. Those interested in learning more about our programs specifically targeted for Flash developers should send an email to SimLeaderAlpha@ea.com.

 

At TheSimsCarnival.com, create playlists of your favorite games so you can stitch together all your favorite games into one experience, send a game by email or embed a game on social networking sites or on your personal blog. Games are now truly a social experience and one that can be shared and enjoyed by others.

Visit TheSimsCarnival.com today to play, create and share games of all kinds!

 

The Sims franchise celebrates an impressive over 100 million units sold since its launch in February 2000. Now translated into 22 different languages in 60 different countries, The Sims has quickly become a universal gaming and cultural phenomenon. For the latest information about The Sims and to check out the hottest creations for The Sims 2 made by our community members, please visit www.thesims2.com. To stay up-to-date on The Sims 3 news and information, check out www.thesims3.com.

 

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA SPORTS Freestyle TM and POGOTM. In fiscal 2008, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.67 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA’s homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.

EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle, POGO, The Sims, and The Sims Carnival are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Gametrailers.com has a preview for The Sims Carnival, an online community dedicated to bring you user-created flash games.  No word on when it will kick off (it is still in beta), but this should indicate it will be sometime very soon.

I did become a beta tester for The Sims Carnival, however, it was right before my grandmother passed so I didn’t really do anything. Beta is still going on, but I don’t have any idea on what game would be cool to create!

That’s where The Sims Carnival’s second, much more complete game-making method comes in: the standalone, downloadable Game Creator application. Essentially a user-friendly skin for daunting Flash programming, the interface is simple: You drag in graphics, assign them behaviors from pull-down menus in snap-together modules (“While holding the Up Arrow key, move Up!”), and hook them together in if-then ladders of logic. Modules exist for most behaviors you’d seek in a game — Rotate, Follow, Animate, Collision, Physics responses — so that you never have to type a line of code. Simple tools exist to stretch images or edit their collision boxes (complete with a Photoshop-like pen to add or subtract nodes), and a single Play button lets you preview it instantly. Finished works can be uploaded to the Sims Carnival website in a few clicks for others to rate and comment on, and — once Carnival is launched for real — games can be embedded on whatever Web page you wish.

1up preview for The Sims Carnival