The Sims: Project Rene interview – early access, diversity, and tools
pcgamesn.comThe Sims 5 development is finally underway, but the life game has a new name. The Sims: Project Rene is the working title for “the next generation Sims game and creative platform.” In our Project Rene interview, PCGamesN speaks with EA’s executive producer on The Sims, Phill Ring, and The Sims VP of franchise creative Lyndsay Pearson, about what that means for the future of the management game, how their community affects their decision-making process, and (of course) pools.
PCGamesN: First off, what makes you say it’s time for a new Sims? Why right now?
Lyndsay Pearson: As we have said before, with The Sims, there’s an endless amount of possibilities of things that we can do. There were some frontiers we’re really interested in exploring that really just makes sense for us to try and accomplish in a new way. So there’s no time like the present, I guess. It’s always a good time to start the journey. And we’re just really excited about some new innovations that we are going to be able to explore that we haven’t been able to do within The Sims 4. The Sims 4 has an incredible amount of content and stories to be told. But there’s some other things we want to play with.
Phill Ring: I think The Sims has been on an incredible journey, and as we see that the way that the community has really kind of taken to the Sims as a franchise, we see lots and lots of opportunities to continue to give that platform for people to be creative, and to tell their stories. So that’s why we really wanted to kind of change things up and talk about Project Rene as early as we have, because it’s very early in development.
We’ve got some fantastic experiences on The Sims, we’re still very much supporting The Sims 4 and we’ve got a huge number of
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