Sims-Like Life By You Won't Have Death By Illness Due To COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic had a big impact on video games, hitting the development of some so hard that they still haven't launched. One way you might not have expected it to affect a game is devs deciding to omit illness from their project entirely having developed throughout the pandemic. That's what the Life By You team has done, revealing your virtual people will never die from illness.
Shown off for the first time last month, Life By You will be a Sims competitor from Rod Humble's Paradox. Humble has previously worked on The Sims and Second Life, so they know a thing or two about life simulation games. Life By You will aim to be as immersive as possible, but Humble revealed to GLHF (thanks, NME) that the immersion line will be drawn at illnesses.
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“We actually removed all of that due to COVID,” Humble explained. “We had the idea of sickness and death by unfortunate means, but it just didn’t really sit right.” Humble also confirmed Life By You will not include violence, but that nudity and romantic relationships will be fair game. “That’s really more about the emphasis of that kind of storytelling, the important stuff,” Humble said, adding that other games already do violence much better than it would be done in Life By You.
“We’re also [a] life sim, and you can make grandma and your family. We don’t want people to see horrible things happen to grandma.” It's a fair point. There will be a lot of you out there who likely remake people you've lost in life sim games, and losing them to illness again but virtually would probably be pretty upsetting. That said, illness is a very natural part of life, so its omission from a game aiming to be more immersive
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