Hecklerspray Oddities: Alice And Kev
The Sims 3? Bah.
It’s a video game, yeah. And video games are awesome – skull-explodingly, ‘boom-motherfucker-headshot’-yellingly, firebombing alien warlord palace excitingly, cacking-your-pants-when-the-Tank-runs-at-you in Left 4 Dead terrifyingly, utterly utterly brilliant.
When they’re good.
When they’re bad? They’re The Sims. The bleeding Sims. Ferchrissakes, Hecklerspray doesn’t want ORDINARY PEOPLE in our video games. We can see ordinary people when we go outside. And going outside scares us. So, so much.
Anyway: The Sims 3! Rubbish!
Except … except … without The Sims 3, we wouldn’t have ‘Alice And Kev’. Created by design student Robin Burkinshaw, ‘Alice And Kev’ follows the exploits of two of Robin’s creations in the game (you don’t need us to tell you what they’re called, surely). Better than any soap opera, Robin’s daily blog keeps us up to date with these characters, who are both struggling homeless people in a virtual world. Seriously – it’s enthralling, captivating, and sometimes even (whisper it) a bit moving.
Yes. Moving. Don’t mock us.
Hey, nice avatar. It’s great that your teachers let you edit Hecklerspray during school hours.