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.

The Gerosha Chronicles now has its own coloring book!

Click the above image to learn more.

Assembled in only a week, The Gerosha Chronicles: Assorted Heroes and Villains Coloring Book is a mostly-AI-generated coloring book that lets you imagine different characters and scenes from The Gerosha Chronicles, or color those scenes in for yourself! It's made in the same vein as any Marvel or DC coloring book.

Comic afficionados who love coloring, especially tweens, teens, and young adults, may have a blast with this vivid comic book world. Feel free to check it out for yourself.

New Straggele game available now

The Straggele work for Krampus in The Horrorday Gang, part of The Gerosha Chronicles. Just in time for the holidays, these dark and scary counterparts to the typical "Santa's elves" you see everywhere in December now have a game, where you can guesstimate what your codename would be if you were one of them.

Done in the spirit of those "What's your elf name?" type silly games on Facebook, but with a dark twist.

You can download the game in hi-res here.

Tales of Extirpon Story Pack for The Sims 3 complete

Click the image of Extirpon above to visit the download page.

This completes the 2020 collection for Sims 3 downloads for DzMD. Future ones are in consideration for release at an unspecified time in the future, possibly 2021 some time.

A Sims 4 version of the Tales of Extirpon subfranchise of The Gerosha Chronicles is pending for release in 2021, in a version that will go into a lot more detail with the biographies of each character.

Other Sims 4 works pending for that year include a Centipede and Fire Saga pack series, an Anarteq-themed pack, Camelorum Adventures, Volkonir, and more.

This concludes Dozerfleet Labs project releases for 2020. Stay tuned for 2021, when more projects are set for release to the Labs division of Dozerfleet Productions! In the mean time, the main Dozerfleet blog is your go-to for information about releases or re-releases of Dozerfleet content from all the other divisions.

Stay awesome, and keep clearing the path!

Some reshuffling by necessity

Until Sacrificial returns from his hiatus, the Extreme Violence mod for The Sims 4 will remain partially broken, along with Akihana's loading screens - which broke with the patch for Journey to Batuu.

Several career items for the Batuu world don't mesh with Extreme Violence, nor do the combinations bode well for neighborhood loading, nor for compliance with the MC Command Center.

Until these items are in place, The Sims 4 will be too broken to use for modding for Dozerfleet Labs. This means that the remaining Swappernetters story packs will have to wait until Sacrificial returns to updating Extreme Violence, before Blood Over Water can be produced. Likewise, this affects all remaining Sims 4 story packs.

In the interim of waiting for these repairs, The Sims 3: Tales of Extirpon is going to see its story pack repaired on this blog. All other projects not terminally dependent on The Sims 4 will likewise proceed, until the mods for that game are repaired. Details on those other projects on the main blog.

Approaching Deadlines and Sims uploads

After the Sims 3 section of DzMD is finished, which will be soon, focus in the Sims 4 section will become centered around Into the Future Conversions and the ad for Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff.

With those out of the way, Camelorum Adventures will get its uploads handled quickly. There won't be any Sims 3 releases for Camelorum, unless there is sufficient popular demand.

From there, focus will shift to Sodality: Adaptation. With that pack out of the way, however, focus will then shift away from DzMD for a time. The remaining packs will still be developed and released; but not quickly.

Instead, the non-DzMD sections of Dozerfleet Labs will have their old sections rushed into publication and release. Dozerfleet Comics / Literature will take center stage from there, and Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil will be rushed for release.

In mid-July, Blood Over Water is to begin "filming" (screenshots taken with the game on both PC and PS4.) This will continue until the entire story has been converted. Once finished, it will then be sent over to Mod the Sims, for hosting approval. It will be made public. Wiki articles will be updated to reflect changes. And then, writing will commence on Ciem: Inferno and Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo.

Once these novels are ready for beta read, the Horrorday Gang will have their submissions uploaded. The Centipede and Fire and Anarteq CC packs will then be added to DzMD. Swappernetters will eventually follow, as will any remaining Gerosha packs.

Volkonir may not get all its content released until next year, as scheduling permits. Once Inferno and Soo are out, and Kahoopiliana is also out, emphasis will switch to writing Sniperbadger and Ash Cloud. Followed by Tropic Mercenary and Ciem: Caldera. The goal is to finish the Legacy volume first, then write the Legends volume, then the Orient volume. Origins and Sodality would be written concurrently. Swappernetters would be written after nearly everything else is cleared out, followed by Ciem: Tomorrow. Then, with no main Gerosha continuity left to write, Volkonir and Camelorum can get official literature written and (hopefully) published.

Ideally, most of this can be done by 2025.