# Modeling Individual Personalities in The Sims 3

*Source* · `src-evans-2010-sims-3-personalities` · status: **n/a**

| field | value |
|---|---|
| kind | Talk / video |
| authors | Richard Evans |
| venue | Game Developers Conference 2010, Programming track |
| date | 2010 |
| url | https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012450/Modeling-Individual-Personalities-in-The |
| accessed | 2026-10-24 |

## Notes

Distinct Sim personalities expressed through autonomous behavior; in-game visualization tools used to tune it; a fine-grained, data-driven social system in which non-programmers defined hundreds of interactions and thousands of production rules.

## Backlinks (computed)

**cited by:** [Social exchanges](../mechanic/social-exchanges.md)

## Citation

Richard Evans (2010). *Modeling Individual Personalities in The Sims 3*. Game Developers Conference 2010, Programming track https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012450/Modeling-Individual-Personalities-in-The

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