Why make berry sims?Ī sentiment I see expressed in the non-berry simming community often is “Why?” The short answer is: “Why not?” Her Splash of Color legacy story was a seminal work in the Berry community which spawned an entire separate Rainbowcy challenge based on it, which many berry simmers made their own stories based on. Though Berry recently retired from the simming community as a whole, for years she was the mother of Berry simming, and honestly, to me and to many others, she still is. The term was originally coined and popularized by a simmer known as Berry. They are also generally named after their color – think “Strawberry Shortcake” characters and you’re on the right track, but add in unnaturally-colored genetics. “Berry sims” is a term used to refer to a specific style of sims known for colorful skin, hair, and eye colors along with clothing that matches.

I see a lot of confusion and interest in the regular simming community regarding our sweet little segment, so I thought it might be fun to whip up a little beginner’s guide to berry simming, as well as answer some frequently-asked questions.

I hope to answer many of these questions and more in the following post. How do you find all of the clothing that matches the hair colors and skin colors and eye colors? And probably mostly you’ll be wondering what compels people to sim in this style. To a regular simmer playing non-berry, or vanilla, sims, it may be confusing how to even go about simming in this particular style. You’ve seen them on your Tumblr dashboards, colorful, “eye-searing,” sims with candy/fruit/flower/etc names and carefully selected color schemes. I think that’s all the background a non-simmer would need to at least begin to piece together what I’m talking about, but seriously, don’t be upset if you don’t understand. Often these legacies will add on other rules to the generic 10-generation rule, one specific type I reference in this post is the “rainbowcy,” where each generation is meant to represent a different color. I go into more detail below on what kind of style that is, but it’s basically become its own little subculture on the Tumblr “simblr” community (portmanteau of “Sims” and “Tumblr,” referring the wider community of Tumblr blogs devoted to documenting the lives of their sims mainly through screenshots and written stories.) One type of story, the “legacy,” is generally when a simmer takes one sim and then chronicles their entire lives and the lives of their descendants for ten generations. Are you ready for yet another super niche post? I feel like this one requires a bit of preamble for the regular, non-simmer viewer of this blog before I jump into it, though perhaps I’m being a bit optimistic to suspect any non-simmers will be interested in a post like this.īerry simming is a term used to describe a certain style of playing The Sims.

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