Editing The Sims (video game) (section)

===Modding scene===
''The Sims'' is credited with opening up modding to a new demographic, making it easy enough for "casual modders" to modify the game.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Laukkanen |first=Tero |url=https://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/65431/951-44-6448-6.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=Modding scenes – Introduction to user-created content in computer gaming  |publisher=University of Tampere |year=2005 |isbn=978-951-44-6448-5 |page=4 |format=PDF |issn=1458-9974 |access-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128211333/https://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/65431/951-44-6448-6.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |archive-date=November 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>  ''The Sims'' was designed in a way that it would be easy to add user-created content (also known as custom content or "CC") to the game,<ref name="tampub.uta.fi">{{Cite book |last=Laukkanen |first=Tero |url=https://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/65431/951-44-6448-6.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=Modding scenes – Introduction to user-created content in computer gaming |publisher=University of Tampere |year=2005 |isbn=978-951-44-6448-5 |page=68 |format=PDF |issn=1458-9974 |access-date=November 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128211333/https://tampub.uta.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/65431/951-44-6448-6.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |archive-date=November 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> with Will Wright stating in an interview that he wanted to put the player in the design role.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pearce |first=Celia |year=2002 |title=Sims, BattleBots, Cellular Automata, God and Go. |url=http://gamestudies.org/0102/pearce/ |url-status=live |journal=Game Studies |volume=2 |issue=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421094445/http://www.gamestudies.org/0102/pearce/ |archive-date=April 21, 2018 |access-date=November 28, 2018}}</ref> Websites for downloading CCs and mods include The Sims Resource and [[Mod The Sims]]. Maxis released [[Mod (video gaming)|modding]] tools for ''The Sims'' before the game itself, resulting in a suite of fan-created mods being available at launch.<ref name="tampub.uta.fi" />