Sign up for The Sims Carnival

By Tom Bramwell Published 18 February, 2008

Make some games. Details at GDC.

While Will Wright and friends work their way through the final bits of Spore, EA's Sims team is busy touching up something called The Sims Carnival, an online community built around game-creation and sharing, and is inviting people to sign up for a closed beta.

Rod Humble, head of the Sims studio, will be explaining all in a Game Developers Conference session called "The Emergent Gamer" on Thursday in San Francisco. According to EA, he will "discuss the rise of a new kind of game creator, and what this trend means to games as an art form" as he clues us all in.

But you don't have to wait for Rod - you can sign up for a closed beta now at TheSimsCarnival.com. The full thing will allow you to "create games from scratch", "build a community around your own game creations", embed your favourites in a blog or social networking site, and of course swap things with friends.

It's certainly all go at EA on the Sims front, with Humble confirming last week that The Sims 3 is in development, EA having revealed that a couple of new MySims games are also underway and that SimCity Creator and SimAnimals are due out this year.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (2) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • dazzer05 #1 4 years ago

    Signed up. Says there is limited spaces so you better hurry if you want one. Fear this could be a bit rubbish but you never know

  • Drakron #2 4 years ago

    Hell no, I am part of the Sims Community and I have to wish to stand even more of the pseudo-artists, prima donas and drama queens that populate the community.