Cyberpunk - William Gibson style
Sagana:
Mine's a bit different, trying for just barely post-modern, so it's not as interesting-looking as yours is going to be :) I've had a hard time trying to have it 'cyber-y' but not run too far into sci-fi. The idea is supposed to be that there are no plants left for regular peoples, only very very rich people who live "Over" (which I haven't built yet) have any growing things. (and there are plants off somewhere carefully environmentally controlled so everyone doesn't die, but they won't grow normally.) The neighborhood is concrete.
Normal people live in Cyburbia (where I'm playing now) and if they're well-to-do live in an environmentally-controlled area so there are several bubble houses and one of my sims is an architect building "underwater" houses (kind of performance art architecture) so there are a lot of those as well. Everybody else is sorta grunge (but the real grunge area is a place called "Under" which I also haven't built yet) so they live in some factoryish and tiny houses amidst the remains of an unused urban area. No aliens. Robots and modern furniture and the food replicators and like that.
One woman, who is obsessed with flowers, and her brother who doesn't really care but wants to help his sister, are trying to bring back some plants. Meanwhile she arranges plastic flowers. He's managed to acquire a cow plant that thrives despite the environment, so...
I am taking pics so I'll let you know when (if ever) I actually get the blog up. I'm not very good at blogging.
witch:
Yes, I'd be very interested!
There are definite similarities, I chose a desert setting, but that can be cold as well as hot. There will be some sims trying to raise plants (in greenhouses of course) - settler type sims; decaying urban areas and some high tech science labs. I like the under / over concept.
This is a pretty cool link:
http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Content_List:Sci-Fi
sewinglady:
All this talk of aliens and cyberpunk made me miss Neptune Valley...my brightly colored alien skins are all gone with the big download flush when NV got f'd up when I installed seasons... so last night I did it. I've abandoned my cleaned up version of Riverblossom Hills and began a new neighborhood... one with a small radiation problem - The winds would carry radiation from a oopsie at Hanford east, so I picked the lovely 'bedroom community' (the real inhabitants would laugh if I knew I just called it that) of Vaughn Junction...and have started populating it... I think I may try to salvage some of the community lots from Riverblossom Hills. I get so tired of building the same stuff over and over...
Oh yeah, and I'm using Enayla's elf and pixie skins...they aren't as brightly colored, but dang they are so beautiful and even with the facial embellishments, so much more realistic looking... will be interesting to see over the generations which skins dominate...there's always one. In Neptune Valley it was an orange one from Genensims which seemed to pop up with increasing frequency.
cabelle:
Cyberpunk reminds me of the RPG I played in college with my pals. Good times. 8)
miros:
Quote from: eevilcat on 2007 April 10, 06:10:35
Ooh, sounds interesting. I've always thought that Bladerunner came pretty close to visualising William Gibson's world. Or should that be vice-versa as the film was first? A mix of shiny hi-tech and grungy low-tech would probably work best.
Bladerunner was based on Philip K. Dick's short work, "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?" which was published far far earlier than Gibson or any of the other cyberpunk genre.
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