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alice and kev is really interesting. Using Sims 3 the writer has creative a narrative blog about two homeless sims, they live on a park bench surviving of freebies.
The writer is Robin Burkinshaw, a student of Games Design from the UK.

This is how he describes the blog and what it was trying to do

This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes. It’s based on the old ‘poverty challenge’ idea from The Sims 2, but it turned out to be a lot more interesting with The Sims 3’s living neighborhood features.

I have attempted to tell my experiences with the minimum of embellishment. Everything I describe in here is something that happened in the game. What’s more, a surprising amount of the interesting things in this story were generated by just letting go and watching the Sims’ free will and personality traits take over.

In creating a hopeless father and a loser daughter Robin has actually set the scene for a compelling story. I was hooked after just a couple of posts. It is interesting that blogs don’t lent themselves to stories though, Robin has had to create an upfront link to his first post so people can get to the beginning of the story, otherwise the danger is you read the end before the beginning!!

Brilliant idea and it also shows how far The Sims has come since it first hit the scene.