I did a remodel of my parents' house in the sims 2 with my dad (SPA/ENG)

¡Hola, gamers! Bienvenidos a un Gameplay algo peculiar. No soy fan de hacer Gameplays con fotos (no digo que no esté bien hacerlo) sino que a mí me resulta más divertido grabar y comentar. Sin embargo, en mi franquesa les puedo decir que me fue imposible grabar en Los Sims, asi que opté por aprovechar el recurso del propio juego de tomar fotos para documentar el proceso.

Hello gamers! Welcome to a somewhat peculiar Gameplay, I'm not a fan of making Gameplays with photos (I'm not saying it's not right to do so) but I find it more fun to record and comment. However, in my frankness I can tell you that it was impossible for me to record in The Sims, so I opted to take advantage of the game's own resource of taking pictures to document the process.

The pictures offered by the videogame aren't very good but at least they're understandable haha, so I apologise in advance for that. I was just commenting with my sister @mairene1 (who also documents The Sims 2 this way) that it probably would have been better to capture with the pc directly (I recently learned that you can do that) but well, this way is how you learn to improve. Without further ado, I'll start with the gameplay

The first thing I have to tell you is that my parents' house (where I live too) is small and whenever we can, my dad and I start making plans of how we would like to enlarge the house. We usually do them on blocks or white sheets of paper, but yesterday it occurred to me that we could do it this time in The Sims and that the process would be more noticeable, so we went to sit in front of the pc.

The first thing we did was to recreate the house as it is, even with the furniture it has now (as close as possible, since logically, in the game I wasn't going to find everything as it exists at home).

As my dad isn't very good with the mouse and doesn't know how to use the tools in the game, I took care of that and he gave me directions. My parents' house is built on a slope compared to the street, so in the game I solved this by placing the base on the grass.

Then we made the walls and delimited the rooms. The back part that has no walls is our backyard and the front part is where the garage would be.

Luego colocamos las puertas, ventanas, techo y muebles. En la primera foto puede verse la sala, y la cocina-comedor, además de parte del baño y la habitación de mi hermana y mía. En la siguiente se ve bien el baño, la habitación de mis padres y la de mi hermana y mía.

Then we put in the doors, windows, ceiling and furniture. In the first photo you can see the living room, the kitchen-dining room, as well as part of the bathroom and my sister's and my bedroom. In the next one you can see the bathroom, my parents' bedroom and my sister's and my bedroom.

Y así quedó la casa de mis padres tal cual es...sin embargo, ahora fue donde comenzó la parte divertida, la remodelación.

And so my parents' house was left just as it is...however, now was where the fun part began, the remodeling.

Para ello, le dije a mi papá que hicieramos un diseño sin tomar en cuenta presupuesto, ya que sería más divertido porque nos permitiría ser más osados. Yo tenía como visión hacer la sala de concepto abierto y de techo alto, mi papá por su parte, quería asegurarse de adecuar los espacios de la forma correcta para tener más amplitud en las habitaciones, asi que nos pusimos manos a la obra.

To do this, I told my dad that we should do a no-budget design as it would be more fun because it would allow us to be more daring. I had a vision of making the living room open concept and with high ceilings, my dad wanted to make sure that the spaces were set up in the right way to have more space in the rooms, so we got to work.

Empezamos trabajando con el patio y la parte del garage. Al patio le pusimos techo y le colocamos paredes y techo al garage, además le colocamos una linda ventana, puerta principal, algunos muebles y plantas.

We started working with the backyard and the garage part. We put a roof on the backyard and put walls and a roof on the garage. We also put a nice window, front door, some furniture and plants.

Empezamos a diseñar la plata de arrriba. Empezamos por la terraza y despues empezamos a hacer el resto. El pasillo de las escaleras desde la sala, con ese concepto abierto era exactamente lo que quería lograr.

We started to design the upper floor. We started with the terrace and then we started to do the rest. The stair hallway from the living room, with that open concept was exactly what I wanted to achieve.

Poco a poco fue tomando forma. Decidimos los colores, materiales, puertas, ventanas, artículos hasta que finalmente quedamos contentos con el resultado.

step by step it took shape. We decided on colours, materials, doors, windows, items until we were finally happy with the result.

La verdad fue muy divertido y entretenido saber exactamente como quedaría la casa remodelándola en el juego, respetando el mismo tamaño, de hecho descubrimos que nos sobra espacio. Con la ampliación obtuvimos una habitación para cada uno, tres baños, una oficina para @mairene1 y yo para trabajar y grabar, sala, comedor, cocina (esta ves separado ambos espacios), terraza, una oficina para mi papá, garage, y una habitación que destinamos a sala de fiestas pero que realmente sobra y no sabemos realmente que hacer con ella.

The truth is, it was really fun and entertaining to know exactly how the house would look like remodelling it in the game, respecting the same size, in fact we discovered that we have plenty of space. With the extension we got a bedroom for each of us, three bathrooms, an office for @mairene1 and me to work and record, living room, dining room, kitchen (this time separated both spaces), terrace, an office for my dad, garage, and a room that we destined to a party room but we don't really know what to do with it.

Características del juego
Juego	Los sims 2 (Todas las expansiones)
Año	2004
Género	Simulación Social
Consola	PC
Sistema Operativo	Windows 7

Game characteristics
Game	The Sims 2 (All expansions)
Release year	2004
Genre	Social Simulation
Console	PC
Operating System	Windows 7

Bueno, gente, esto ha sido todo por el post de hoy. Espero que se hayan divertido. Gracias como siempre a todos los que apoyan mi trabajo y a los nuevos lectores y espectadores, se les quiere mucho y ya nos encontraremos en un nuevo post.

Well, folks, that's it for today's post. I hope you had fun. Thanks as always to all who support my work and to the new readers and viewers, you are very much loved and I'll see you in a new post.

Las imágenes de portada y despedida, las diseñé en el editor Canva. El resto de las imágenes las hice directamente del videojuego. El logo lo hice en la siguiente página:

The cover and farewell images, I designed them in the Canva editor. The rest of the images were made directly from the videogame. I made the logo on the next page:

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