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To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don

To address your question about examples of younger kids making Sims objects:

I wrote a tool called The Sims Transmogrifier, that enables players to create their own Sims objects. It required the use of a program like Photoshop, and while that's too hard for younger kids to master, it's given older kids the incentive to learn Photoshop and other image editing tools, which is a good thing to know.

To open up Sims object creation to a wider audience, I made another simple tool called "RugOMatic", which provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface tfor creating rugs with descriptive text. The text, which you can read in the game, makes them more like picture postcards, suitable for storytelling and describing the pictures. Many of the RugOMatic users are kids, and more than half of them are female!

For Halloween a while ago, I made another online tool that was even easier to use and more accessible to kids: "Halloween Tombstones for The Sims". You can simply upload an optional picture, and type in the name of the deceased and their eulogy, and it instantly makes you a personalized Sims Tombstone that you can download and play with in the game. Lots of people have made their own tombstones: currently there are more than 2200 public tombstones in the cemetary, some by kids, some serious, some funny, some disturbing, some about pets, some about family members, some about celebrities, some about fictional characters, some about politicians (Bush tops the list!), some mean, some heartwarming, and most of them emotionally compelling.

I used the idea of tombstones precisely because they had a lot of emotional baggage, and people can take it in any direction they want.

-Don