Building! Building! Building! and More Building!

I discovered the most awesome website.  Living Sims is an online magazine, about of course Sims.  It's set up just like any other home and garden styled magazine, complete with editor's page and monthly columns.  I have to admit, it's easily become my favorite place to visit.   There are so many unique interior and exterior home designs, I find that it really inspires my palette.

Summerset Bay Storming! (Brain-Storming)

I don't have really any pictures to share.  I have mostly been playing MC the last couple of days.  After spending four hours staring at grid lines and smoothing them out to make sure all the pathing was correct,  I was burnt out on creating my world.  It didn't help either that I had severe designers block regarding on several areas of my neighborhood.   However, I may have been playing MC and not Sims, I was brainstorming.   That is mainly what's been going on.

Routing, Routing, Routing!

Well, Summerset Bay is actually looking like a real neighborhood. I know I have said this before, I mean it this time, really!  The whole farmland, countryside is pretty much complete.  There are tree lined fields, barns with grain silos, and even pastures spread about.   I've also created a small woodland in the middle of one area.  Actually, I built the woodland area, something like, four times.

Farmland

So now it definitely looks like a real Sim world.  Blobby landscapes,  paint splotched hills, and haphazard road layouts are all coming together to form in my opinion a really beautiful world.   I've spent most of the last few days putting the little farm areas together.   I absolutely love how they have turned out.

More Lots!

As you can see I've been rather busy.  Summerset Bay is finally starting to look like a neighborhood.  Figuring out a road layout, especially for the residential areas was far more difficult than I thought it was going to be.  I didn't want anything too square and rigid. Instead, I was looking for a more natural look.  When you try so hard to be natural it never comes out looking natural.   Finally, I took a break and when I came back things flowed so much better.

Into the Rabbit Hole!

 As promised here are some pics of my town square.   These are all rabbit hole lots.  I haven't even begun to contemplate creating community lots such as the gym and library.  Those will come in good time I imagine.  At this moment, I've been having fun creating a bustling quaint city neighborhood.

Summerset's Town Square

This week went by quickly.  I mentioned before that I play other games, well one of those other games is Minecraft. If you haven't heard of it, I really recommend checking it out. Minecraft is a beta released sandbox game with a bit of adventure thrown in for fun.  Since they are in beta we get regular updates and a new one came out this week.  So, that took up part of the week.