MySims Wiki:About

Welcome to MySims Wiki! We are a community dedicated to offering help, documentation, and resources for the MySims series!

What is MySims?

Lookin-like-luigi — A commotion amongst Sims

MySims is a video game series created by Electronic Arts, as a spin-off to their The Sims life simulation franchise. Despite the series' popularity in places such as North America and Europe, there were concerns about its success overseas in [East] Asian countries, primarily Japan. The decision was made to bring The Sims to Nintendo hardware to better appeal to these regions, and as a result the project became focused on approachability and cuteness, subsequently becoming a kid-friendly experience.

In a 2008 Eurogamer interview with Erik B. Zwerling, a producer on the MySims PC port^[1], touched upon the subject; "MySims was originally created in order to come up with a game that would be successful on consoles, particularly Nintendo consoles, as well as in territories where The Sims wasn't as popular. That was particularly Japan and Asia, where the Sims was seen as being too western [...] The goal was to come up with something that would be more attractive to those consoles and those territories. MySims was the outcome of that. Other franchises like Mario and Sonic aren't necessarily kids' games - they have all-age appeal - but they have some of those Asian, Japanese tendencies."^[2]

Character designer Emmy Toyonaga echoes this statement in Official Nintendo Magazine: "Well, Mario and other Nintendo characters are pretty short and stubby, so these characters kind of came naturally."^[3]

What's MySims About?

MySims games typically see you taking control of a Sim living life in a dilapidated land, and using new creative abilities bestowed upon you in order to restore and rejuvenate the world you live in. Abilities could be the power to use the essence of various materials, being in possession of a royal magic wand, or even the quick-wit of a Special Agent. Other games see you take control of a racer, a pilot, or even a simple festival-goer.

What Games are There?

MySims, MySims Kingdom, MySims Party, MySims Racing, MySims Agents, MySims SkyHeroes, and soon, MySims: Cozy Bundle! All except Cozy Bundle have DS releases, in addition to their standard Wii release. MySims was also released as a port for PC, and a derivative game was made for mobile.

Can I Help the Wiki?

Yes, you can! This wiki needs all the help in can get! But first, here are some important pointers.

Creating an Account

Mobile-login-markup — Locating the mobile login

Creating an account is an essential step. It lets us know who you are, and lets you keep track of all your edits! Visitors who do not make an account, but make edits to the wiki, will be signified by either an IP address or an anonymous moniker. Look at the Fandom bar on the left-side of the screen on desktop, or the top-right of the screen on mobile, and locate the user icon. Click on it to register a new account, or log back into an existing one.

Note: The wiki is not currently optimized for mobile viewing/editing. It is best experienced on a computer.

Editing a Page

Wiki-editing-demo — Locating the edit function

Dropdown-edit-tab — Locating the extra functions tab

Editing pages is an important part of visiting the wiki. It keeps the wiki in tip-top shape! It is also how you edit other non-article pages, such as your profile and templates. Locate the edit button at the top-right of a page and click it to enter the editor. Most pages will have the visual editor by default; if you want the source editor, click the ellipses (...) and locate the option to edit in source mode. There's also options for the talk page, history, and various other actions for the page.

Keep in mind when editing to keep your writing looking fresh; don't spam and keep things in good grammar as best as possible. An example of poor editing would be:

"lol i f********in think rhonda r hav crush on travis and he lyk her bak cuz they follow each other lots!!!!!111"

First of all, hello 2010!! My flip-phone just called, they want their texts back!!

Can we see why this is not great wiki material? The grammar is far from proper, the punctuation is off-the-walls, there's hints of vulgarity, and the content is irrelevant. Rhonda and Travis can definitely interact in-game, but nothing further is canonically implied and thus is not suitable to place in an article. Articles on the wiki are most often intended as factual information or guides, and this doesn't exactly fit the bill. Capisce?

But there's more than just presentation of language! There's a whole 'nother world of typing out there: wikitext and magic words!

Text Formatting on the Wiki

Wikitext is the main markup language of Fandom and other wikis, and magic words are part of that language.

Let's say you want to link to another wiki page, but don't want the whole url taking up space. Surprise: there's a shortcut for that! Simply locate the page you want, copy the url text after "/wiki/", and place it between a set of twin square-brackets. For example:

[[Poppy]]

...brings me to Poppy's article! But now you may be looking at what I just typed, and are thinking "How did they just add an apostrophe-s?? That's not in the article name." Well, there's even more to it! After the first twin square-brackets and page name, place a vertical bar. After the vertical bar, type the text you want to act as a link. For example:

[[Poppy|Poppy's]] article!

Ta-da! Be mindful of your text placement: left is the link, right is the text. Mixing up the order will cause somehing like this:

Poppy article!

Wuh oh! This is trying to bring us to the page "Poppy's" instead of "Poppy"! If the page doesn't exist, the link will typically be red; this is an easy indicator that something got messed up along the way....or a chance for you to make a much-desired page!

Some quick tips are as follows:

<b>This makes text bold!</b>

<i>This makes text italic!</i>

<u>This underlines text!</u>

<s>This strikes a line through text!</s>

<small>This makes text small...</small>

<big>This makes text BIG!!</big>

<h1>This makes a Header 1</h1>

=And so does this!=

<h2>This makes a Header 2</h2>

==And so does this!==

<h3>This makes a Header 3</h3>

===And so does this!===

<!-- This makes text invisible on the page! Typically used for notes or hiding content without deleting it. -->

And some quick tips on links:

[[MySims (Series)|This links to the MySims series article!!]]

[[w:c:sims:Bella Goth|This links to Bella's page on The Sims wiki!]]

[[wikipedia:MySims|This links to MySims' Wikipedia article!]]


[https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/mysims-cozy-bundle This links to EA's Cozy Bundle page!! Only single square-brackets format me. I also use a space instead of a vertical bar!]

<ref>Placing a link between these tags makes a reference!</ref>

You should also add {{reflist}} at the bottom of your page when using ref tags.

To see further info on wiki editing, go to this page. You could also visit the Stubs page, articles that need more info added. Also check out Special:SpecialPages for a bunch of stuff that need help!

Wrapping Up

If you still need any further help, please contact the admins SailorSkeleton or Summm1 for any questions! Or, if you're feeling a bit too shy, post a message in the community and we'll get to it whenever possible!

If you ever should need it, for whatever reason, you can create an automatic signature using 4 tildes:

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This will create the following (but with your own username):

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Have fun!