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HISTORICAL FACTS: Rod humble - The Untold Story

Inzoi's delay into 2025 has officially dashed all hope of this being the year of the Sims killers… what the hell happened?

The Sims continues to hold a monopoly over the genre despite everyone very much wanting the opposite.

Just 2 weeks before its early access release, Life By You is delayed again, this time without a new date

Just 2 weeks before its early access release, Life By You is delayed again, this time without a new date

The Sims-style life sim from Paradox Tectonic is no longer launching in June.

The director of Sims competitor Life By You says players can monetize their future mods: "You don't owe us a dime"

The director of Sims competitor Life By You says players can monetize their future mods: "You don't owe us a dime"

Rod Humble is happy for Life By You players to make mods

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The director of upcoming Sims competitor Life By You says life sims are "the most complex RPGs ever written"

Rod Humble also thinks it's an "inclusive game genre"

Life By You director says modders are welcome to monetize creations however they want: 'Go for it—you don't need our permission'

Rod Humble describes Life By You not just as a game but as a toolset for creators.

People who don't play life sims might not understand that they're 'the most complex RPGs ever written,' says Life by You director

But they're inclusive and easy to pick up, which is why their popularity keeps growing, Rod Humble says.

Sims competitor Life By You delayed to June to refine gameplay and 'add more life' to character faces

Paradox Tectonic outlines a list of improvements and player feedback it wants to spend time addressing.

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Can Paradox beat The Sims at its own game with Life By You?

Can Paradox beat The Sims at its own game with Life By You?

Touted as the "most moddable life sim" ever, Paradox talks to Edge Magazine about turning regular human experiences into a thriving digital playground

Life By You might become The Sims 4's biggest competition, but it was partially inspired by a very different game

Life By You might become The Sims 4's biggest competition, but it was partially inspired by a very different game

Eventually, everything comes back to chess

Playing God: Rod Humble on building the radical new simulator Life By You

Playing God: Rod Humble on building the radical new simulator Life By You

The game allows players to control every aspect of their character, and NPCs won’t forget how you treated them. Its developer reveals the details of his ‘metaphysical’ approach

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Pro-nudity The Sims 4 competitor Life by You delayed to 2024

Pro-nudity The Sims 4 competitor Life by You delayed to 2024

The developers need more time for visual improvements, new features, modding improvements, and more

Life By You, Paradox's open-world Sims-like game, is delayed to 2024

Life By You, Paradox's open-world Sims-like game, is delayed to 2024

Early access was supposed to begin in September of this year, but has been pushed into March of the next one.

The next generation of The Sims will finally have some much-needed competition

The next generation of The Sims will finally have some much-needed competition

The long-dominant life sim will finally get some competition in its next generation.

Life By You is the kick up the butt The Sims needs to be great again

Life By You is the kick up the butt The Sims needs to be great again

The Sims franchise has had 23 years to run the life simulation show - and I say enough is enough.

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Unlike The Sims, Life by You is absolutely pro-nudity

Life by You has nudity because the devs are European

Life by You will let you turn The Sims' wildest community challenges into quests with rewards

The 100-baby challenge is inevitably making a comeback

Sims competitor Life by You allows you to create custom careers and jobs for your characters

The life sim will also offer careers in retail, hairdressing, finance, and more

Former Sims lead says men would lie about how they played during focus groups: 'Actually, what you did is you redecorated that bathroom'

Rod Humble's new life sim takes careful account of the observation that people don't always want others knowing what they do in life sims.

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Sims competitor Life by You doesn't have loading screens because its NPCs are "accurately modeled every second of every year"

Paradox wanted to give players a completely open-world experience

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Life by You is challenging The Sims 4 by tempting its modders

The open-world life sim will let you change basically anything about the world by uploading files of new dialogue or just changing up the code yourself.

Life By You says yes to sex mods and privacy, no to gender roles

We spoke to former Sims boss Rod Humble about his new life sim, which sounds like a platform more than a game.

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