GasBandit
Staff member
I'm sure most of you remember past efforts in experimental social modeling of halforumites in a closed environment by Gusto and.. I forget who did the first one and the thread didn't make the transition. Well, I need a project to keep me busy after hours these days, so I thought I might try my hand at it.
However, I won't be using The Sims. Instead, I'll be using a lesser known Japanese social sim title called Artificial Academy. Instead of housemates, the Halforumites will be classmates in a Japanese High School.
"Hold on there a sec, you!" you say, "I can google with the best of them, that's a hentai game!" Yes, it is, BUT! First of all, for the purposes of this run of Halforums Academy we will be eschewing all pornographic content. As I control the simulation, I will not be engaging in so-called "ecchi" behavior, nor will I be using any such content in the updates. Even stripped of the "sex" parts of the game, Artificial Academy has a surprisingly robust system of social simulation, where the uncontrolled characters in the game interact with each other, make friends, enemies, love triangles and jockey for social standing just as actual highschoolers do. The game makes each NPC act in accordance with their personality and configured preferential tastes, and can serve as just as much a "social fishbowl" as the sims with the same amount of harmless salaciousness - nothing more offensive than regular old sim "Woohoo" type activity at most, albeit possibly in the gym storage room instead of the privacy of one's own home.
Characters can study together, eat lunch together, practice sports together and on teams. They can gossip about others, pick fights, console or annoy, and generally do all the things sims would do in a high school environment. Additionally, the game keeps a ranked scoreboard on Scholastics, Athleticism and Popularity as well as ranking other miscellaneous occurrences of note.
(don't worry about the moonrunes, I've got an english translated version, these are just example images I googled up)
Anyway, I'm gauging interest in participation in this project. To make it worthwhile, I'd say I'd need at least 8 or 10 volunteers (and hopefully a near even mix of males and females), and class size is limited to 25 max.
Characters are highly configurable and individualized in both appearance and personality, but I'll go over that more in depth if there's enough interest.
Map of the school area:
So.. anybody want in on this?
Edit: The List of "I'm In!"
Male:
blotsfan
stienman
bhamv3
Gusto
Cheesy1
AshburnerX
filmfanatic
Shakey
Frank
LordRendar
Bones
Terrik
Espy
Jay
Officer_Charon
MindDetective
Klew
Tinwhistler
Just Me
BananaHands
ThatNickGuy
RavenPoe
Female:
LittleKagsin
Dei
Dirona
Waiting List:
Shawnancy
However, I won't be using The Sims. Instead, I'll be using a lesser known Japanese social sim title called Artificial Academy. Instead of housemates, the Halforumites will be classmates in a Japanese High School.
"Hold on there a sec, you!" you say, "I can google with the best of them, that's a hentai game!" Yes, it is, BUT! First of all, for the purposes of this run of Halforums Academy we will be eschewing all pornographic content. As I control the simulation, I will not be engaging in so-called "ecchi" behavior, nor will I be using any such content in the updates. Even stripped of the "sex" parts of the game, Artificial Academy has a surprisingly robust system of social simulation, where the uncontrolled characters in the game interact with each other, make friends, enemies, love triangles and jockey for social standing just as actual highschoolers do. The game makes each NPC act in accordance with their personality and configured preferential tastes, and can serve as just as much a "social fishbowl" as the sims with the same amount of harmless salaciousness - nothing more offensive than regular old sim "Woohoo" type activity at most, albeit possibly in the gym storage room instead of the privacy of one's own home.
Characters can study together, eat lunch together, practice sports together and on teams. They can gossip about others, pick fights, console or annoy, and generally do all the things sims would do in a high school environment. Additionally, the game keeps a ranked scoreboard on Scholastics, Athleticism and Popularity as well as ranking other miscellaneous occurrences of note.
(don't worry about the moonrunes, I've got an english translated version, these are just example images I googled up)
Anyway, I'm gauging interest in participation in this project. To make it worthwhile, I'd say I'd need at least 8 or 10 volunteers (and hopefully a near even mix of males and females), and class size is limited to 25 max.
Characters are highly configurable and individualized in both appearance and personality, but I'll go over that more in depth if there's enough interest.
Map of the school area:
So.. anybody want in on this?
Edit: The List of "I'm In!"
Male:
blotsfan
stienman
bhamv3
Gusto
Cheesy1
AshburnerX
filmfanatic
Shakey
Frank
LordRendar
Bones
Terrik
Espy
Jay
Officer_Charon
MindDetective
Klew
Tinwhistler
Just Me
BananaHands
ThatNickGuy
RavenPoe
Female:
LittleKagsin
Dei
Dirona
Waiting List:
Shawnancy
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