Not familiar with the Alice and Kev story? Where have you been, it’s perhaps one of the best blog sites for The Sims 3, and has became an internet phenomenon throughout The Sims Community! It’s a tale of two sims – a daughter and her father living thru a rough time of being homeless.
GameSetWatch picked up an interview with the blog’s creator, Robin Burkinshaw in which he shares his views on the matter as well as how the game effected his actual life:
Perhaps the most remarkable point in the story sees a teenage Alice, who for the first time in her life has a few meagre coins thanks to a dismal part-time job, begins selflessly donating her wage to charity. On the Alice and Kev blog, Burkinshaw discussed how this development – one orchestrated by the character herself – forced him to re-assess his own, real-world actions.
“I said that seeing Alice give away everything when she had nothing made me examine my own life, and that’s true,” he says, looking back. “I can know the underlying logic that led to the game making her wish to give to charity, but seeing the little character I have been caring for give the appearance of acting so selflessly is still enough to make me stop and think about how I’m using my own life.”