Warning!
Parts of this video may cause motion sickness
in some viewers.
Thanks as always to EA and Firemonkeys for
providing us with early access to this Sims
FreePlay update.
So.
Welcome to Make2 and a walkthrough of the
new Sims FreePlay Augmented Reality feature!
That's right, we can mix sims and real life
just like Pokemon Go.
We can make sims life size, we can physically
walk through their houses, and we can even do co-operative
building.
This is a brand new feature being added to
the game exclusively for certain Apple users.
In the video description below we've listed
all the devices that can run this feature,
but the short version is if you have an Apple
device which has an A9 chip or higher *and*
you're running iOS 12, then you should be
able to play with Sims FreePlay AR.
For Android devices and other kinds of device,
we're really sorry, but as far as we know
this feature is not available for you right
now.
We don't know if the game developers will
be able to give it to you, but we hope it
happens soon.
Yeah, we really do, because it is really cool.
What do you need to do to get AR in Sims FreePlay?
It's being added to the game as part of the
Brilliant Backyards Update -- and we've got
another video about that event on our channel,
so do check it out.
Using one of the required Apple devices, you
just need to download the update when it becomes
available in the App Store.
Then go to your town map, and tap on this
new green icon at the right.
You'll see this screen pop up, and if you
tap the little I icon, you can see the developers
have prepared some quick information about
the features which you can read for yourself.
But if you just want to get stuck in, tap
on the big white box to create a new AR space.
It will ask you to name your build so that
it will remember it later.
Currently with this feature, you can have
up to 5 AR builds in your game.
Then you'll need to aim your device at a good
flat surface.
We recommend something like carpet or patterned
flooring or grass.
The AR feature doesn't do as well on plain
white or black surfaces, so avoid those.
The game may try to help you by showing little
dots.
The more dots you see, the better the location
is.
The AR space comes with a pre-built house
template, and before you place it you can
make it bigger or smaller by pinching or expanding
two fingers.
If you make a mistake about the placement
or you want to change the size, tap on this
icon at the bottom left and the game will
let you change those things.
We recommend letting the house at least fill
up your device's screen, so that you can really
get inside it -- which we'll be showing a
lot of later in this video.
And now you've got your house in real life!
Well, kind of.
You know what we mean.
You can make whatever changes you want to
this house, and you can even delete it completely,
but first we need to talk about some special
aspects of the AR space.
Now, this space basically exists independently
from the rest of your town.
Anything you do to this house is free.
Furniture is free, building is free, making
changes is free.
But there is no inventory here, so you can't
take any items from this house to use on other
houses in your town.
You also can't bring anything here out of
inventory from other houses.
Sims can also do things here for free.
You can skip through actions without spending
any LPs.
But you can't use this space to complete quests
or events or goals.
Basically, everything that happens in AR stays
in AR.
What the developers wanted to create here
is just a cool new part of the game for you
to play in without restrictions, but in the
rest of your game everything will still work
the same as usual.
Now, in Build Mode, everything that you have
previously unlocked in the game will be unlocked
in the AR space.
And as we said, everything is free!
You can place and rotate things exactly the
same way, but the cool thing here is that
you can move around the entire lot, move closer
or further away, and change the angle.
This is a great way of seeing whether the
change you've made is going to be good, without
having to come out of Build Mode.
You can use the sim tracker to bring over
sims with the whistle.
Currently, you can bring up to 6 sims rather
than the usual 10.
Hopefully this limit will increase in future!
You can get right up close to them and see
them in ways you never could have done before.
While sims are here, their needs will stay
at 50% and won't increase or decrease.
They can perform the usual actions, but they
won't get any XP for them.
And like we said before, skipping actions
won't cost any LPs, but it doesn't advance
any quests or events either.
If you want to take the sims out of the AR
space, you can send them home with the sim
tracker or go to another lot and whistle them
out.
You can make your houses really really small.
Here we've put the house in our backyard,
and it's like Honey I Shrunk The Kids!
Blades of grass are as tall as trees to these
sims.
You can go small, but you can also go big
-- really big!
You can get your house to be life size.
Here's that same house on our yard, and I
am walking through it.
Literally walking through the house, walking
up to sims, and spying over their shoulders.
Looking out the window, you can see our yard!
We're standing up in our yard, inside a Sims
FreePlay house.
This is all pretty surreal.
Now note, we're filming this on an iPhone
6S which is the lowest level device available
that can use the AR feature, so that may be
why the footage is kind of jerky.
If you're playing the AR feature on a higher
generation phone or an iPad, it could be a
lot better than this.
By the way, just like for sims, doors will
open automatically for you as soon as you
walk through them.
If you want to build a house of your own,
you can get rid of this pre-built template
by deleting the rooms one by one.
Go into Build Mode, use the Room Select tool,
tap on the room you want to delete, and then
tap the red X.
Random items of furniture can be removed by
using the Move/Sell tool and tapping on the
item, then the red X.
As we said, nothing goes into inventory here.
Tip: if you want to get rid of the planters,
you need to first remove the plants inside,
then the planter boxes themselves.
The AR feature allows you to do cooperative
building with 1 other player.
Both players need to be physically near each
other and have Bluetooth enabled on both of
their devices.
To get into co-op building mode, the player
who owns the house should tap on this icon
at the lower left while in the AR space.
This will let you invite a nearby player to
help modify your house.
At the same time, the other player will need
to tap on the first green AR button from the
town map, then tap on the SEARCH button.
Player A should see the name of Player B's
device pop up on their screen.
Then tap the INVITE button and the game should
give Player B an option to accept the invitation.
Once they accept the invite, they can then
connect to Player A's house.
Remember, only 1 player at a time can connect.
Player B will need to choose a spot on their
game to place Player A's house.
Once the house is placed in Player B's game,
then you're both in co-op building mode!
Anything one player does, the other player
will see at the exact same time.
It is so freaking cool!
This is us building a dining area together.
You can see it from both of our perspectives.
We're each placing chairs around the table
at the same time.
Now this is showing a sim on the lot from
both of our perspectives.
Only Player A who owns the house can bring and control sims,
but Player B can watch whatever the sim is
doing on their own device.
Amazing!
By the way, if you reach your limit of 5 AR
spaces, you can easily delete any of them.
Tap on the green icon from the town map, and
it will show you the list of your AR spaces.
Tap the gear icon on the space you want
to delete.
So that is the new Sims FreePlay AR feature!
We think we are going to have a ton of fun
with this -- well, we're already having a ton of fun with this --
and it's making us think a lot
more seriously about upgrading our phones
finally.
Yeah, it's been 3 long years already.
We know the Sims FreePlay team put a ton of
hard work into this and it's incredibly cool
that a 7 year old game is still adding exciting
new cutting edge features like this.
Yeah, it is really cool.
So hopefully you've enjoyed this video and you're
feeling hype about AR as well.
Please let us know in the comments what you
think and if you're new to our channel,
feel free to subscribe because we've got plenty
more Sims FreePlay on the way.
Thanks for watching.
