My husband recently alerted me to a new blog called Alice and Kev. This unique blog follows the lives of a homeless father and his young daughter...in The Sims 3 computer game.
The blog's front page explains more:
Welcome to the tale of Alice and Kev.
This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes. It's based on the old 'poverty challenge' idea from The Sims 2, but it turned out to be a lot more interesting with The Sims 3's living neighborhood features.
I have attempted to tell my experiences with the minimum of embellishment. Everything I describe in here is something that happened in the game. What's more, a surprising amount of the interesting things in this story were generated by just letting go and watching the Sims' free will and personality traits take over.
The unusual saga is much like a soap opera or telenovela. The free will and personality traits enable Alice and Kev to make choices independent of their creator and their lives are quite a sociology experiment.
To read the ongoing tale, you'll want to start at the beginning.
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