The transcripts for
Maxis' latest Hot Date developer's chat are up at the main site now. I'll save you the trouble of going there and condense everything important: there's going to be a seperate downtown area for every neighborhood (woo!); you get downtown via a taxi service, which can handle more than one person at a time; you and your date can race remote control boats as one of your romantic activities; kids must be with an adult to go downtown; there will now be two relationship types--daily and lifetime; there are forty new social interactions, including several different types of hugs and kisses; if your date goes
really well, you can have your date stay over for a...slumber party; all the sofas will have the cuddle couch option; all the stuff is recategorized; the downtown area will have 10 lots; you automatically get sent home from downtown when you get too tired; there will be greatly expanded build mode capacity, including dirt and water tools; marriage is harder to get to now, but when you get married you can nag each other (just like real life); talking capabilities are increased, with more options and 7 new interests to gab about, as well as the ability to gossip; and, finally, the game comes out on November 13 (about five weeks from now--woo!);
Big updates at
Studio Sims--objects and everything! The objects are by Tulip Rain, formerly of Sim Moderne, and some of them have been updated since they were at that site. There's some beautiful rugs by Angel there as well. Be sure to check out the previews in the Extra section--looks like there's a great new bathroom coming our way as well.
GameSpot has added some new screenshots of Hot Date recently--the cuddle couch looks quite cute. I'm also pretty excited about the restaurants. And I'm really looking forward to taking my Sims shopping :)
All the Tiki Set windows have been added to Pride at
7DS.