Fidgit has a sweet interview up with MJ Chun, producer for The Sims series, where they speak with her specifically about the latest game in the series.

Topics covered include homosexuality, religion, laundry, inspirations like personal ads and 28 Days Later, plus lots more. Great read.

TC: Okay, well let me ask you about another tricky issue. Something that I think is conspicuously absent from The Sims is something very important in many people's day-to-day lives. That's religion. How come the Sims has never incorporated that?

MC: I almost expected you to say laundry.

TC: Well, then that's my next question.

MC: We get that a lot. "When are you guys going to put in laundry?" We actually talked about laundry. It was like, "You know, to be honest, it's actually not that fun".

TC: Laundry is just kind of dead time, isn't it?

MC: We could a laundry object, but then we'd want to hook it into an entire gameplay experience. Then we're going down that micromanagement path. If you make it just a fun object, you know, "ooh, a laundry machine!" and you get a bonus moodlet, then it's hokey. Do you really want to play The Sims and go, "Socks! I'm gonna do socks tonight!"

TC: Now you're not off the hook for the religion question...

MC: Oh, I know.

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