The recent patch by EA for Adventure Awaits has ensured that script mods cannot be used in any capacity with The Sims 4, or else lots won't load. This has proven utterly disastrous for fidelity in using The Sims 4 to gather screenshots moving forward.
How this affects workflow
Dozerfleet Labs
- Any absolutely essential shots still needed will involve isolated characters for the Sims 4 packs that don't yet have artwork.
- Far from the complexity of the handbook for Magic of Movies and Memes Stuff, every handbook made after that for Anarteq: Top of the World will be stripped down to fairly minimal artwork features, and focus will be not on the story plot as much as on the technical specs.
- After the Anarteq: Top of the World Story Pack, there will be no new Sims 4 content.
- House Flipper 2 content will be worked on until six homes have been released for tour, three of them from the Anarteq saga. After this, there will be no new home content. DzMD will effectively shut down all production after this.
If layouts are needed for screenshots that must be shot in a game world, and House Flipper 2 can't support it, The Sims 3 will be used instead. Existing Sims 4 blueprints may still be shot as needed, but no new gameplay support will be pursued. Blueprints will be used primarily for purposes of recreating models in other software.
Dozerfleet Comics
All machinomics whose Sims 4 footage has not yet been shot will have their artflow rerouted to other methods, including Krea.
- Corando's "Don't Lose Hope" will be the final pure machinomic.
- Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry will get a second edition, replacing Sims artwork with AI entries. Data will also be updated to reflect the Sorbet / Volkonir Big Rapids Farewell Tour.
The following machinomics originally set for production in Sims 4 have to now be done with AI instead:
- Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana
- Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance
- Volkonir 2008
- Sorbet
- Blood Over Water
- Blood Over Water 2 (?)
- Path of the Ming-Cho
The following comics will be done with AI automatically, unless a reliable human illustrator can be hired that can do them manually:
- Anarteq: Top of the World: Manga Edition
- Nemara: Ward of the Upper Peninsula
- Ciem: Carnelian Eve
Dozerfleet Literature
- Krea will be used for any illustration absolutely requiring one, in which stock photos owned by Dozerfleet are not available, and included only when illustrations are really essential.
- All non-essential Krea renders will be used only for scenic storyboarding for writing scenes.
- Coloring books will likely be offered on Patreon.
- Novellas will be offered for profit on Patreon in the future.
- Successful Patreon novels / novellas will be offered to Barnes and Noble, or its print affiliates, for consideration for print distribution.
Dozerfleet Records
Krea will be utilized for updating the artwork. All Sims artwork will be retired.
Dozerfleet Studios
No new Sims content released as videos. The trailer for Magic of Movies and Memes has been effectively canceled.
In conclusion
After House Flipper 2, there will be no new game content. After all the remaining Sims 4 content above has been handled, The Sims 4 will effectively be retired from Dozerfleet. The Sims 3 will remain on, along with The Sims 2, for backup when needed. House Flipper 2 will become the default residential home storyboarding tool. Other software for blueprints of homes will also be considered, but no mods for gameplay are going to be made any longer.
Worlds to both entertain and instruct, to clear a path for a the Higher Kingdom, to encourage self-and-world exploration and inquiry, must remain the goal of Dozerfleet. If profitable publications become the means, then that's a bonus.
Troubleshooting software and making mods for dying game franchises has become too much of a distraction from this goal, rather than a boon to it. Therefore, 2026 sees Dozerfleet try to lighten its load.
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