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My Model Town

Creating a Model Factory Town

Name of the town: Nymphwood

Company Name: Waterways Corp.

Resources available: Flowing water, wood, fertile soil

Elements of the town: Waterways and ocean, surrounded by forest, is in close proximity to a bigger city.

Population: 92

Explanation / Brief History: The town was starting to be populated in 1719 when it was discovered the forests and the rivers to transport the goods out of the town quickly. When it was still a very small community by the water a nymph was supposedly spotted and that is where the name originates from.

Media Fluency Reflection

  1. How was the ease of access in building the town, and what software did you use specifically?

Creating my town was not very hard because I used the Sims 4 which I already knew my way around pretty well, and I could get inspiration for my buildings from the community. The building tools are really easy to use for me and since I already used this program I knew how to build with the wall tools and add decoration, so I had a bit of an advantage.

2. Were you able to apply the skills you learned in the planning stages appropriately to a digital environment?

I think that I was able to use the skills I learned because I had been experimenting with the different build styles and different building or editing tools before I built my town. I had been trying different rooves on houses and rooms until I found a way that I liked and used that in the making of my town.

3. What were the sources you researched that made this an “authentic make-believe” town?

When I was building my town I looked back through the book Lyddie because I thought that it would be an accurate portrayal of a town in that time period. I tried to include all the things that a town would need like a train station, stores, jobs, a post office, and housing. In the book Lyddie those were necessary places for a town to have so that the citizens could live happily.

4. Is there other software online that could have done the job better? Explain.

The software I used was helpful for this project and I think it was a good match, but I also could have used Minecraft for this project because I think that I probably could have been a bit more creative with it. In The Sims there are limited options to what you can build with whereas in Minecraft you can build a lot more freely. If I had to choose which was more suited for this project between Minecraft and The Sims I think that Minecraft would have been better since I could have been more authentic with jobs of the citizens, and a bit more free with the building but I was happy with the final product that I have now.