Way back when I started what I didn’t know at the time was called a ‘Let’s Play’ I blogged about my first experience with The Sims 3 and the sim I had created, Ferris Wheele. After three posts I got sidetracked by work and a billion other things. I recently (and finally) completed the LP on Broken Forum, which is hosted by Scott ‘Lum the Mad’ Jennings. BF was revived in January 2012 as a refugee camp of sorts for people who had been banned from Quarter to Three or disagreed with the way the admin ran things there. One of the things Lum did differently on BF was to break up the games discussion more discretely. There are dedicated subforums for PC/console games, MMOs (understandable given Lum’s work in that particular area), traditional (board) gaming and the most recent addition was a Let’s Play section after several requests went out to have the few LPs gathered in one place.
The LPs took off, in no small part to Angie Gallant’s pigeon dating sim LP. This has brought out a veritable flood of people posting their experiences, largely in Japanese dating sims — but you can find everything from Master of Orion 2 to Minecraft, X-Com, Morrowind and even big rig and train simulators (with zombies!) It’s really quite neat and has given BF a distinct flavor to set it apart from Qt3.
I revived my Sims 3 experience and carried it through Ferris Wheele’s entire life. You can read the thread here. I’ll eventually bring it back over here. I’m planning another LP soon and it will also go to Broken Forum first then make its way back here. Have a look in on Ferris’s wacky life.
