What's Coming to OldSunset in October

So guys, how are you? Feel the story! Today we're going to talk about the latest changes to OldSunset. This month flew by! With a recent survey, I found that most people don't go that deep into the story. In other words, the age variations of Citizens of OldSunset have not generated enough interest to be taken advantage of at this time.

And I totally understand that. Only one person shared interacting with the Sims variations that came in the last update (Including Patreon and Members Club Youtube polls). It made me realize that sometimes putting time and effort into a category can end up distracting me from the real effort I should be putting into OldSunset that would make people more excited to participate.

So this month, I kept the variations only for Victor and Gretle Goth who were the Sims that were already pre-routed at the end of last month. This opened up time for me to dig deeper by developing 2 parallel family trees.

In other words, all the ancestors of: Mortimer Goth!

We have Gretle and Victor: Mortimer's paternal grandparents. Gunthers's parents.

And of course, your biography and personal data cannot be left out:

Victor Goth:

• Biography: Victor fulfilled his life's dream, setting down roots in OldSunset and dominating the investment market. Their dedication and hard work ensured future generations a life of luxury and perks! Will his descendants be able to keep the family money?
  
• Traits:
  -Charismatic
  -Workaholic
  -Unflirty
  -Light sleeper
  -Proper
  
• Horoscope: Scorpion
  Favorite color: Black
  Favorite food: Potato and truffle pie
  Favorite music: Electronic
  
• Lifetime Wish: CEO of Megacorporation

Gretle Goth:

• Biography: Gretle is very emotional and extremely flirtatious. With Victor often turning down her romantic initiatives, will she be able to find a balance, especially now that Victor has more time to enjoy life with her in retirement?
  
• Traits:
  -Ambitious
  -Flirty
  -Over-emotional
  -Brooding
  -Unstable
  
• Horoscope: Aquarius
  Favorite color: Gray
  Favorite food: Falafel
  Favorite music: French
  
• Lifetime Wish: Living in luxury

As you may know, Gunther is not an only child. He has a sister who appeared in the narrative of The Sims 3 Supernatural but was already in Mortimer's cemetery in The Sims 2. So these are Gretle and Victor's children:

Frida Goth:

• Biography: Frida tends to believe that everything happens for a reason and that absolutely everything has a solution. However, things are not so simple when it comes to her relationship with Gunther, her brother. That's because Gunther believes that she would do well marrying an important member of the Landgraab family. While Frida values
  
  time alone, morning readings and long hours sitting on the couch reflecting on her existence. There's something that drives her mad is when they try to make decisions for her. Will Frida be able to deal with Gunther's insistence quietly or will she give up everything to build a new story away from her parents and brother?
  
• Traits:
  -Bookworm (Trait acquired due to her mother's melancholy)
  -Mean Spirited (Trait acquired due to emotional disputes with Gunther)
  - Couch Potato (Characteristic acquired as a result of the easy access to things that his family provided)
  -Commitments issues (Characteristic acquired from the parents' relational example)
  -Loner (Characteristic acquired due to the way family members tried to impose a narrative on her life).
  
• Horoscope: Sagittarius
  Favorite color: Lilac
  Favorite food: X-Fillet
  Favorite music: Classical
  
• Lifetime Wish: Master of Mysticism

Gunther Goth:

• Biography: Gunther dedicated his life to perfecting various skills, which took him to unimaginable fields. From university dean to major investor behind the development of Old Town, Gunther believes that everything in life requires commitment and organization. Will your perfectionism and bravery help you achieve better relationships in the future and support your ability to right the wrongs of the past? Or will he take with him all the pain he faced throughout his life to get where he is?
  
• Traits:
  -Absent-minded (Trait acquired due to the mother's instability)
  -Schmoozer (Trait acquired from ability to get father's attention)
  -Born salesperson (Trait acquired by observing the father's business)
  -Brave (Trait acquired as a result of the family culture about taking risks)
  -Mooch (Characteristic acquired as a result of the accumulation of family money)
  
• Horoscope: Virgo
  Favorite color: Black
  Favorite food: Lobster thermidor
  Favorite music: Classical
  
• Lifetime Wish: Renaissance Sims

Both Frida and Gunther were generated using the Genetics tool and subtly tweaked to have their appearance reminiscent of their parallel versions since The Sims 1.

Gunther fell in love with Cornelia, but as we know, Cornelia comes from the Crumplebottom family. Therefore, I passed development to Mortimer's maternal line, developing their respective relatives.

Then we have Simon and Prudence: Mortimer's maternal grandparents. Cornelia's parents.

Simon Crumplebottom:

• Biography: Simon is a born political leader. Their love and dedication were the foundation for the foundation of a democracy at OldSunset. But not everything was easy in his life. It seems that a wave of bad luck follows him in all his initiatives, but despite that, he keeps moving forward. Will Simon be a good father to his daughters and a good husband to his wife now that he is retired from public life?
  
• Traits:
  -Unlucky
  -Neat
  -Nurturing
  -Good
  -Clumsy
  
• Horoscope: Sagittarius
  Favorite color: Gray
  Favorite food: Grilled salmon
  Favorite music: Indie
  
• Lifetime Wish: Leader of the free world

Prudence Crumplebottom:

• Biography: For Prudence, order, art and ecology go hand in hand. During her husband's tenure, Prudence planted more than 2,000 trees, founded an NGO to rescue sea turtles and revitalized the entire central region of OldSunset. Her initiatives boosted business, taking the city to another reality! However, Prudence's real dream is to change lives as a surgeon. Will she accomplish this goal in the short time she has left after so many years of love, dedication and commitment in the political arena?
  
• Traits:
  -Eco-Friendly
  -Artistic
  -Disciplined
  -Childish
  -Never Nude
  
• Horoscope: Libra
  Favorite color: Blue
  Favorite food: Fruit ice cream
  Favorite song: Roots
  
• Lifetime Wish: World-renowned surgeon

Both gave birth to Cornelia and Agnes Crumplebottom. Which are present in their younger versions in the world of Sunset Valley.

Cornelia Crumplebottom:

• Biography: Cornelia accompanied her husband in all the adventures and adventures he proposed. Her relationship with her parents is messy and the personality traits she acquired from this made her neurotic but audacious. The perfect counterpart Gunther needed by her side. Will Cornelia be a good grandmother to her grandchildren or will she spoil them until she can't anymore?
  
• Traits:
  -Party animal (Characteristic acquired due to the political events held by her father)
  -Grumpy (Characteristic acquired due to the discipline and rigidity with which her mother raised her)
  -Commitment issues (Trait derived from the streak of bad luck that Cornelia followed during her father's life)
  -Neurotic (Characteristic claimed to try to prevent as much as possible that things could go wrong in your life. Excessive need for security became neurosis).
  -Daredevil (Characteristic acquired from the need to take the maximum risk not to experience the fears and frustrations that she feared so much).
• Horoscope: Pisces
  Favorite color: Black
  Favorite food: Grude à carbonara
  Favorite music: Electronic
  
• Lifetime Wish: The Perfect Garden

Agnes Crumplebottom:

• Biography: Agnes has quite a past. Despite her successful ancestry, Agnes went through painful experiences in the field of love. The trauma was so great that she can barely see other Sims expressing their feelings without feeling personally offended. Could things be different for Agnes or will she be stuck with the pains of the past?
  
• Traits:
  -Cat Person (Surrounded by Menelaus and Hecuba during her adolescence, Agnes developed a fondness for cats)
  -Mean Spirited (Characteristic acquired as a way to attract attention from parents who were too busy with work)
  -Perceptive (Characteristic acquired by living with the family that faced many ups and downs)
  -Unflirty (Trait acquired by the difficulty of engaging in a long-term relationship without the partner dying)
  -Night Owl (Nightlife for Agnes seems to provide some sort of satisfaction, so she acquired this trait from being too active during the night)
  
• Horoscope: Virgo
  Favorite color: Reddish-brown
  Favorite food: Lobster a Thermidor Vegetarian
  Favorite music: Classical
  
• Lifetime Wish: Intuitive Investigator

Cornelia's look was heavily inspired by her version in The Sims 1 as was Agnes' look. Now we had everything we needed to give life to Mortimer, so Cornelia and Gunther joined in marriage.

While Mortimer is already pre-routed, several tweaks are still needed to get a look worthy of OldSunset. So we'll take a little longer. In the month of October we had some different challenges. We completed the translation of a manual with more than 300 pages in less than 2 weeks (which took me by surprise, I expected it to take much longer) and we redesigned once again the region where Victor and Greta's house is located. Obviously, as I started to develop other family members after the deadline, I didn't have time to develop specific houses for them. Sorry about that.

The region now has a walking trail in the back and several decorations to better integrate the family atmosphere of this area. We added a new house to counterbalance the building style of the neighborhood and completed the entire interior area of the new Goth family home. Inspired by the Gothic style but with old English influences much more present! Remember the Coffins are still not the Coffins we know. So your tastes are still in the process of maturing.

For the interior, it was important to bring versatility and space, since the lot is not that big. Surprisingly, they fit 2 bedrooms and 1 suite on the upper floor that combine perfectly with the living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom and office on the lower floor.

I'm still delighted with how it all came together on a smaller than 25x25 batch. Space is a matter of perspective!

As I mentioned, OldSunset will have its own manual and for that some designs had to be developed. One of the designs that will be available in advance in this month's content includes a biographical page to fill in information about the Sims (.PSD)

A curiosity: I drafted a horizontal concept on paper, but ended up adjusting the idea for a vertical page.

(Still a work in progress and needs to be revisited in the future for design tweaks) But it already gives a good idea of how much space there will be for each area.

I separated a folder with the icons of personality traits and favorites so that it could be easily filled in via Photoshop. In this link you can see a little of the process of creating this page.

While researching visual references for the idea within the game files, I came across some CAS files and designed a new mod to improve the look of the Create a Sim frame and background after the family was created. I'm still trying new things, but it's already forwarded in the mods folder files updated this month.

Plus, we have 133 new textures added to Create a Style Favorites to customize your home, outfits, and whatever else you want! All in shades that match absolutely anything!

Textures ranging from leather, geometric to smoother fabrics or solid colors to use as a base for any upholstery or outfit you prefer!

By the end of the day the updated files will be available for download. We will have 18 Sims with 12 variations of the same Sims (in different age groups). I'm making adjustments to OldSunset's work dynamics from September to now to better understand how to provide greater benefits for those who are playing. So this month we won't have a timeline with stories as we've spent time creating new characters to share the world in OldSunset. But don't worry... The future will hold true treasures of complexity regarding each Sim's particular narrative and experiences!

Thank you for supporting and following our work so far. In a few hours the download will be available!!