Welcome to the Build-n-Share Weekly Challenge!

The Build-n-Share challenges will be posted every other Wednesday and run for two weeks. Results will be posted approximately one week after all entries have been submitted in the Winner's Circle thread.

The benefits
First place will be awarded at all levels. If there are at least eight entries in a category, up to four places will also be announced.
Challenges also create an opportunity for community on the forum site. We get to know one another’s names, share news, builds, and positive words. This is a chance to get your name out there, and hopefully make a few friends along the way.

What makes this challenge different from all the other ones I've seen?
We have been hosting this weekly challenge since the first week the game was released. We have many levels of builders in our community and welcome th em all. This group is truly a product of all its great members!

Within the first few challenges, our group was recognized by the gurus that be, who have helped the weekly challenges gain even more popularity be stickying both Build-n-Share threads. Since then, we have had at least one featured creation almost every week, and our list of featured members continues to grow.

With 3 successful collaborative neighborhoods (Gnomelandia, Summer of Love, and NYC) completed, Build-n-Share hopes to bring more creative challenges and new neighborhood ideas to the community with the help of our dedicated participants who willingly contribute and help each week to make sure each challenge runs smoothly.

The rules
All entries must be original work. Any competitor who submits another builder’s work will be disqualified and banned from any future Build-n-Share challenge. These competitors will also be removed from the Builders' Boulevard related websites if they have chosen to join (membership to the site and the Yahoo! group are not required to enter a Build-n-Share challenge).

Please announce your official lot posting using the entry form below. Make sure to leave the "Official Entry" label big. If you need to reformat it, you can do this by highlighting the desired text and then selecting "Big" in the font box above. This will help us see the entries in a sea of posts with no pics to guide us.

Entries must be submitted by the deadline, 7 p.m. Wednesday evening (eastern time, USA).

Your media should include a variety of screenshots to best showcase your entry. Please include at least one clear shot of the main floorplan of the build. If your build has multiple floors, please take a screenshot of each floor.

A description of the five major level categories

Beginner--I have a little experience, but I'm still figuring a lot of things out. I would not call myself an official "builder" at this point.

Beginner/Intermediate--I have a little more experience, but I'm just not sure yet about that leap up to "intermediate."

Intermediate--I have been building for awhile. I know the basics and maybe a little more. I enjoy building, but it is not my primary focus with the game.

Intermediate-Advanced--I'm getting pretty comfortable, but I want just a little more practice before entering on the top level.

Advanced--I know the Sims, and the Sims knows me. My name is familiar to a lot of veteran players, and I've competed in and won some building challenges and maybe even been recognized in a community showcase or two. I know most of the cheats AND I know how to use them.

Official Build-n-Share Animated Siggy
Want to represent Build-n-Share in your signature? Here is our official signature. Just copy and paste [*img]http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab105/anjubee/bns_fad

e.gif?t=1251688153[/img] into the signature section under "preferences" and delete the *.

Build-n-Share Archives
Big thanks to Freynas for putting this together!
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/198045.page

Two additional opportunities
Love to build? Come join us at http://www.buildersboulevard.com . The site offers an additional forum for advertising lots, share tips and tricks, and participate in collaborative neighborhood projects!

We also have a Yahoo! Group for builders. It can be accessed at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/buildersboulevard/ . You do not have to be a member to enter. This group will be used primarily as an announcement center and for some of our more complex polls, and possibly, databases.

Challenge Specifics
Today we begin two-week challenges. Today's challenge will end on Wednesday, August 11 at 7 p.m. Eastern time.

Did you ever play Mad Libs as a kid? I know they were quite popular when I was growing up, and I've had the idea to write a challenge like this for awhile. I hope you'll like it.

If you have never played Mad Libs before, here's how it works. You'll be asked to fill in at random some words. For example, an adjective. You just say whatever adjective comes to mind first. You'll do this for a bunch of questions. Then, after you've filled it all out, you get to see a story. The story has blanks in it. And in those blanks are your answers. Sometimes they are quite silly. Below is an example just using a sentence or two.

The questions:

1. Girl's name
2. Color
3. Adjective to describe personality
4. Number
5. Noun

My answers:
1. Girl's name--Renee
2. Color--Green
3. Adjective--silly
4. Number--100
5. Noun--Bananas

The story:
One day, 1. will live in a 2., 3. house and have 4. 5.

The story with my answers:
One day, Renee will live in a green, silly house and have 100 bananas.

Kind of silly, but I think this could be quite fun...
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So here is your "homework" for tonight. Please copy the "My Sim Libs Form" that is below into a new post and fill it out. Paste it into your reply on this forum. The story link is a few posts below. But please don't read it until you've filled out your form!!!.

My Sim Libs Form:
1. A number 2-7
2. A word that can be used to describe someone's personality
3. Last name
4. A number 20-100
5. A number 2-7
6. An adjective
7. A number 20-100
8. A number 20-100
9. A number 2-7
10. A number 2-7
11. A number 5-20
12. A color
13. An adjective
14. A color
15. A room of the house
16. A number 2-7
17. A color
18. Your favorite inexpensive Sims item
19. A number 20-100
20. An adjective
21. An action verb
22. An adjective to describe personality
23. An adjective

Please include the following info in your post:

Official Entry

Name:

Link to the posted asset (link to lot):

Link to media (required for judging):

Optional Challenges entered?:

Constructive Criticism?:

Experience level:

Lot Name:

Lot address, size, and final cost:

Details and Rational:

Credit to any simmers for custom content you used:

To make it more searchable, we would highly appreciate it if you include Build-n-Share in the description of the lot.

Judges and Keepers of the Thread

Your official judges are Tota, Robodl95, Robb, and KitKat7147.

Freynas is the official organizational guru collecting entrants' names, levels, links, and results!

Judges will post their results in the winner's circle thread: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/47204.page

Look for results typically a week after the deadline.

Big thanks to our judges and helpers!

Screenshots: Tips and Tricks

Because judging will now be based on screenshots, we figured this would be a good time to go over some tips and tricks in taking good screenshots to help showcase your lovely builds.

1) Camera Man Mode— This is a must in taking good shots! You will have to be in live mode to do this, but just hit "TAB" to enter this mode. Once you are in this mode, you can use the mouse to freely control the angles and use "W, A, S, D" buttons to move forward, backwards, and side to side. "Z" zooms in, "X" zooms out. "Q" moves up and "E" moves down. "C" to capture the shot.

2) Find the perfect angle—With photography, it is all about finding the right angle. Spend some time in camera man mode to find the perfect angle. Get down to a sim's point of view to take the best shots of rooms.

3) Walls up— Most people play with walls cut away, but when you are taking pictures of your lot, try to keep your walls up to make your shots look more realistic.

4) No grids— Unless you need to show the grid for a specific purpose, make sure no build/buy grid is visible when you take your pictures. You can avoid this by taking pictures in live mode or by hitting the terrain paint button in build mode.

5) More is better—Weird, huh? But in this case, we want to make sure judges have enough shots to fairly judge your lot. Be sure to show off each room with at least one picture. Also, please include an overhead shot of the floorplan for each level.

Ok, those are the basics! If you want to further your simatography skills, we highly recommend you visit http://simatography.webs.com for more tips and tricks and to see some excellent shots taken by professional simatographers!

Please try to keep this thread as photo free as possible and either create a story, a slide show, a separate thread, or use the stickied photo thread to post shots of your lots!

Official Entry List


Beginner

Angelnga169
Link to the posted asset: http://www.4shared.com/file/tDf1aRnR/Sims_Libs_build_bns_60-61_
.html
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=244169
Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2833061
Constructive Criticism?:yes...

Leebeejeebee
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=246221
Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2868267
Constructive Criticism?: Yes please, as much of it as possible!

PollySim
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://s686.photobucket.com/albums/vv227/PollyMT2009/BnS%20Sim%
20LIbs%20complete/?action=view¤t=8b20ca21.pbw
Optional Challenges entered?: no
Constructive Criticism?: Please

Princess_Natasha
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://s745.photobucket.com/albums/xx92/_Natasha_Sim_/BNS%2060%
20and%2061%20Mendoza%20Family%20Story%20and%20House/?albumview
=slideshow
Optional Challenges entered?: yes
Constructive Criticism?: Yes



Beginner - Intermediate

arasd3313
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=247473
http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=247482
Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2890213
Constructive Criticism?: yes please!!

Bluuin
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2837394
Link to media: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqg9W9skWys
Optional Challenges entered: Family http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2837399
Constructive Criticism?:Yes

jeaniniiiieeee
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2890523
Link to media: http://neaner12sims3bnschallenges.wordpress.com/
Optional Challenges entered?: yes
Constructive Criticism?: yes

JoubertCG
Link to the posted asset: http://www.joubertcg.com/buildnshare.html
Link to media: http://www.joubertcg.com/buildnshare.html
Optional Challenges entered?: Yes, with the house
Constructive Criticism?:Yes

Lewisj12
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=246319
Optional Challenges entered?: see media
Constructive Criticism?: Yes please

mgolden27
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2824510
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=243751
Optional Challenges entered?: see media
Constructive Criticism?: I'd love to hear it.

SerithRei
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2836826
Link to media: http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l120/wireintheblood/Build-n-S
hare/?action=view¤t=de523e6e.pbw#!oZZ12QQcurrentZZhttp%3
A%2F%2Fs94.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fl120%2Fwireintheblood%2F
Build-n-Share%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3DScreenshot-2076.j
pg%26
Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2836828
Constructive Criticism?: Yes please.

SillyCailey
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/246501.page#3143299

Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2889799
Constructive Criticism?: Yes please.

sjsimmy02
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2855432
Link to media: http://picasaweb.google.com/105715252482949955464/BuildNShare60
61SimLibs?feat=directlink#
Optional Challenges entered?: Yes, http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2847598
Constructive Criticism?: Yes

xxmccxx
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2872486
Link to media: http://creationsbyios.blogspot.com/2010/07/bns60.html
Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2872477
Constructive Criticism?: Yes Please



Intermediate

ciane
Link to the posted asset: na
Link to media: http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f65/ciane/new/Happy%20Home/?a
lbumview=slideshow
Optional Challenges entered?: http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f65/ciane/new/Happy%20Home/th
e%20family%20in%20the%20house/?albumview=slideshow
Constructive Criticism?: No.

golden_glow
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2839685
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/201472.page
Optional Challenges entered?: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/28/201472.page
Constructive Criticism?: Yes

zachofblades
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2855968
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=245484
Optional Challenges entered?: No
Constructive Criticism?: Yes please



Intermediate - Advanced

Adler 900
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2851583
Link to media: http://www.sims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=245332 http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=245826
Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2865569
Constructive Criticism?: yep

Anartistica
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2864212
Link to media: http://picasaweb.google.com/annheinis/InsaneHouseBnS6061?authke
y=Gv1sRgCJT_kM_H9bG_Gw#5502229619363839298
Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2864213
Constructive Criticism?: Yes!

ciaracaff
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/255/173456.page#307
2543
Optional Challenges entered?: yes see media
Constructive Criticism?: Yes

Kiarane
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=246959
Optional Challenges entered?: Nope
Constructive Criticism?:Yep

Mumsy
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2876345
Link to media:
Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2876467
Constructive Criticism?: Absolutely

Scoiattolo
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/15/205052.page#3118
314
Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=245814
Constructive Criticism?: yes

Tamlyn
Link to the posted asset:
Link to media: http://tamlynsims.livejournal.com/9803.html
Optional Challenges entered?: see media
Constructive Criticism?: Please.



Advanced

Anjubee
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2834313
Link to media: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/242887.page
Optional Challenges entered?: Nope
Constructive Criticism?: Sure

garbuckle3000
Link to the posted asset: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=2829829
Link to media: http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b294/kbahrbarrie/Oceanspray/?
albumview=slideshow
Optional Challenges entered?: http://www.4shared.com/file/Ru4AMtN0/Antisim.html
Constructive Criticism?: Of course

Results


Beginner - Judge: Robodl95 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/1185/47204.page#324
1156
1st place: Leebeejeebee
Optional Challenge Winner: Angelnga169


Beginner - Intermediate - Judge: Scoiattolo http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/1185/47204.page#324
1156
1st place: SerithRei
2nd place: Tie! SillyCailey and xxmccxx
3rd place: mgolden27
Optional Challenge Winner: SillyCailey


Intermediate - Judge: tristarin http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/1215/47204.page
1st place: ZachofBlades
Optional Challenge Winner: It’s a tie! Golden_Glow and Ciane


Intermediate - Advanced - Judge: Tota http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/1215/47204.page
1st place: Anartistica
2nd place: Scoiattolo
3rd place: it's a tie: Kiarane and ciaracaff
Optional Challenge Winner: Anartistica



Advanced - Judge: KittKat7147 http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/1260/47204.page
1st place: Gabuckle3000

Please refer to the Challenge Specifics post and copy and paste the "My Sim Libs Form" filled out with your answers into a new post on this thread.

My Sims Libs:

1. 3
2. mercurial
3. Quillico
4. 39
5. 2
6. frothy
7. 33
8. 89
9. 2
10. 7
11. 9
12. purple
13. small
14. aqua
15. kitchen
16. 5
17. green
18. towel rack
19. 73
20. comfortable
21. throw
22. friendly
23. languid

Is this right?

LOL I never played this game and never heard about it! This sounds fun! At least I learned 2 more words out of this challenge: frothy and languid LOL Thanks Scoiattolo!!!
I'll see what I can come up with!

You're good to go, Scoiattolo. Thanks for creating a model for us.

Always glad to have people learning new words. Just can't leave that day job behind, I suppose! hee hee

Addict

No CHEATING! DO NOT Click on this link until you have filled out your form, please.

I know it's tempting to peek, but you will have a lot more fun (and likely, a bigger challenge!) if you don't look first.

http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=242405

The optional challenge this week is to create your family. When you submit, please put in your notes the basic constraints you had (eg. number of rooms, number of boys, size of budget).

My Sim Libs Form:

1. A number 2-7: 3
2. A word that can be used to describe someone's personality: friendly
3. Last name: Marques
4. A number 20-100: 80
5. A number 2-7: 2
6. An adjective: serene
7. A number 20-100: 85
8. A number 20-100: 90
9. A number 2-7: 3
10. A number 2-7: 4
11. A number 5-20: 5
12. A color: Black
13. An adjective: elegant
14. A color: white
15. A room of the house: bedroom
16. A number 2-7: 4
17. A color: dark red
18. Your favorite inexpensive Sims item: lamp
19. A number 20-100: 95
20. An adjective: cozy
21. An action verb: thrive
22. An adjective to describe personality: artistic
23. An adjective: good

I hope I don't end up with a house with 95 bedrooms LOL

Can I click the link now? I am nervous!