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Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Book posters for sale?

In keeping with the scaling back of Sims content projects for next year, and eventual abandonment of that platform, Dozerfleet is considering opening up a shop for high-quality prints of posters for various Dozerfleet projects. Staff is still trying to get all the details sorted, but it might open some time in 2024. Most of these high-quality posters that will be related to the books that are in the works would be 16" x 20".

More details on this are located on this post on DeviantArt.

Templates in stock as of December 5th, 2023

The Tale of Plum Bixie

  • Zize Choi in the Fields

Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo

  • Jissika Sundue on the Streets of Sault Ste Marie
  • Anarteq in the Frozen Wild

Ciem: Ash Cloud

  • Unmasked Ciem, Lamenting the Rubble of Cincinnati

Phaemer Village Peacekeepers

  • Time Capsule
  • The Socratic

The Horrorday Gang

  • Jerry the Psycho Reindeer
  • Perchta

Templates in the works

Ciem: Inferno

  • Ciem: Inferno

Templates being considered for the future

Lohtz

  • Captain Lohtz
  • Kamohoalii
  • Ukuponipo

Experiments and Offspring

  • The Phexo Quartet
  • Molarity

The Battle for Gerosha

  • Stan and Shalia Flippo in Downtown Boonville
  • Mitch Brandel
  • Jeanette the Bunny
  • Fantisk Hebbleskin w/ Sgt. Luddin

Of Emeralds and Sapphires

  • Emeraldon and the Sapphire King, Flying Together, as Young Boys

Sorbet

  • Hadley inside Mancino's

They Call Him...Black Rat

  • Black Rat and Extirwraith vs. the Squid Monster

Little Shanghai Hornet

  • Stung Hornet

Mukade: Reinvention

  • Mukade vs. Milp

The Gray Champion: Freedom's Apparition

  • Gray Champion
  • Eqquibus

The Gray Champion: Chillingworth's Revenge

  • Gray Champion, Hea Pang, and Mapacha del Feugo
  • Chillingworth (Miles Charleston)

The Gray Champion: Shaken Dust

  • Gray Champion
  • Hea Pang and Tina Murane
  • Brackett and Hibbins

Pilltar

  • Pilltar
  • Seth Lambrelli
  • Stephanie Barrin
  • Scott Morrisson

Pilltar 2

  • Pilltar and Strawberry
  • Lady Screwworm

Pilltar 3

  • Pilltar
  • Strawberry
  • Stagtar
  • Ron and Stephanie

Cherinob

  • Cherinob
  • Kritchobol
  • Riptchokal
  • Levio
  • Maurice
  • Filforth
  • Gabriel
  • Michael
  • Boris Heminski

Cherinob 2

  • Cherinob
  • Krystal Travin
  • Belay
  • Astirnah

Cherinob 3

  • Cherinob
  • Soetera
  • Radjuatt
  • Kamohoalii
  • Pele

Navyrope

  • Navyrope
  • Tiffany Sterlie
  • Clarence Felick

Navyrope  2

  • Navyrope 2

The Horrorday Gang

  • Krampus
  • Rob Strainer
  • Tomte
  • Luftmaedchen
  • Luca the Snowmobster

Extirpon

  • Extirpon
  • Nematode

Extirpon 2

  • Extirpon (Negative Battery)
  • Extirpon (Positive Battery)
  • Spoliat
  • Pam Marcones

Extirpon 3

  • Extircar
  • Extirpon with Madeline and Tiffany Casey

Ciem: Ash Cloud

  • Masked Ciem in battle in Cincinnati
  • Eric Korsicht
  • Bruce Almin
  • Goatgruff vs. Anitos in Madison Juvenile

Ciem: Caldera

  • Ciem: Caldera

Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo

  • Anarteq Beneath the International Bridge
  • Nemara on Whitefish Island
  • Wishpon in Michigan

Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary

  • Anarteq
  • Nemara
  • Kamohoalii
  • Glasserwaffen
  • Haikili and Kamapua'a

Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin

  • Anarteq
  • Li'Ban
  • Famorians

Phaemer Village Peacekeepers

  • Keet Kabo
  • Jackal Semicolon
  • Bolte Chipotle
  • Chancellor Avori
  • Tremia Vempule
  • Major Gosmerid

Sodality

  • Ciem of Seattle
  • The Sodality of Gerosha
  • The Sodality of Gerosha
  • Musaran

Swappernetters

  • Twirlflame Trio
  • Frontlinters
  • Chrome Kite
  • Sodality Western Militia
  • Hea Pang in Prison

Centipede + 49

  • Centipede + 49

Ciem Tomorrow

  • Ciem Tomorrow

If these Gerosha prints go over well, then Camelorum Adventures and Volkonir prints may be happening too. The style for these posters is watercolor, due to the fact that it blows up better, and generally yields better results with the AI bases for the images as opposed to photos.

Novel front covers can use photo art; but photo-realism isn't recommended with the AI that Dozerfleet currently uses for application toward anything higher in resolution than 1920 x 1080 HD video. 4K video, and any poster larger than 24" x 36", is out of the question.

Some items removed from the slate

The AI revolution has taken its toll. With that, very few Sims projects remain in production at Dozerfleet.

Of the comics / short story books with Sims illustration, the following remain:

  • Corando's "Don't Lose Hope"
  • Blood Over Water
  • Sorbet
  • Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana
  • Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance
  • Volkonir 2008
  • Path of the Ming-Cho

Of the DzMD Sims 4 packs for download, only a few projects remain:

  • Centipede and Fire Saga Story Pack
  • Anarteq Saga Story Pack
  • Sodality: Adaptation Story Pack

The Sodality: Determination Story Pack is being merged with the Adaptation Story Pack, as has what would have been the Mukade: Reinvention story pack. The Tales of Extirpon and Gray Champion: Modern Legends packs are going to be truncated and merged with Swappernetters.

The following have been removed from the DzMD roster without merger or replacement:

  • Cherinob Saga Story Pack
  • Exploits of a Navy Rope Story Pack
  • Experiments and Offspring Story Pack
  • The Battle for Gerosha Story Pack
  • The Gray Champion: Modern Legends Story Pack
  • Tales of Extirpon Story Pack
  • Volkonir Story Pack
  • Camelorum Adventures Story Pack

There also will be no Ciem Tomorrow story pack.

Following the seven packs still slated, no new Sims 4 pack content will be created for download via Dozerfleet Labs and DzMD. The completion of the eight comics listed above will also mean that, home build interiors notwithstanding, there will likely be no new Sims content of any kind in the future from Dozerfleet Labs.

While Dozerfleet is slowly getting out of the machinomics / machinima / Sims modding business, and won't be getting Sims 5 nor doing much with Sims in the future, that's not to say that there aren't other games on the horizon that look promising. For those who can't get enough of life simulation, InZoi looks promising. For those more concerned with CAD software for buildings, House Flipper 2 may be the way to go.