More randomly-generated goodness – novels!
Random Title Generator (Internet Archive) – I got some great dramatic/fiction titles out of this. Examples – The Unwilling Tales, Ravaged Edge, The Ragged Dreamer, Wanton Winter.
Fantasy Novel Title Generator – Actually I can’t remember at the moment whether Fantasy is an available genre, but whatever. Finally, you can put names to the vaunted God and Illusion Cycle: The Dream of the Children, The Lollian Rogue, The Discord of Adian, and Master and Empire (coming in Summer 2010).
Random Speculative Fiction Title Generator – you gotta hit this one a few times to get some interesting titles. Like Killing of the Worm, Dark Station, Ghost Vendetta, and my personal favourite: Sword Spam!
By the way, I was planning an update to the lot rotation experiment I had going on. I got up to the middle of the seventh round, but I was let down by two things: boredom with the Sims themselves, and a lack of good housing in Riverview. Unfortunately I’m not that great a builder, and the complex decoration in the building options puts me off a little. Also I don’t like massive lots – another reason to wait for the World Builder to come out, I suppose.
So, I’ve wiped Riverview and I’m currently playing one of the random families that decided to sneak in while Story Progression was left on.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Another very helpful set of generators. Thank you!
I have a question for you: in your trawling through the Sims 3 code, did you ever by any chance find where the street names are kept? I was just wondering if it’s even possible to rename them.
Another thing I’m wondering about (asking you because I’m clueless about code), do you think the rabbit holes would be modifiable? Meaning, if I wanted to move the “Attend a Charisma class” option over to the school, would that be do-able? I was just musing that it would be neat to move all the “attend an X class” over to the school so it could be more like a community college.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
It seems to me like the street names are actually the names of the empty lots, because houses now have separate names. When/if the neighborhood editor ever comes out we’ll probably have the ability to name the various “parcels” of land in new towns with our own street names. I don’t know we would be able to edit Sunset Valley/Riverview though. It’s a bit like the Beautiful Vista modifier; it’s not editable with the tools we have at the moment. Which kind of sucks.
As for rabbit holes, it’s definitely possible to change the which skill classes are available where but it would need to be a core mod.
BTW I’m probably just as clueless about code as you ;) I basically Ctrl+F through the extracted core files in .NET Reflector to find what I’m looking for.