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Posted by Thomas|TSR on Jun 1, 2009• TSR goes open source!

We are happy to report that our Workshop tool is progressing nicely. Much of the necessary research has been completed and we have begun the process of putting it all together and to make some magic happen. In an effort to speed things up and make sure the community gets to see custom objects in the game sooner rather then later, we have decided to make the backend part of this project open source. Together with the likes of Delphy, Inge_Jones, Peter L Jones, Echo, jfade and Karybdis (to name a few, others to follow) we will pool our knowledge together and solve the challenges ahead of us as a collaborating team. More updates to follow :)

Edit to clarify: The Open Source team are working on the code that will allow us and other websites to develop software to support Sims 3 Custom Content. They aren't working on the TSR Workshop directly, they are working on the generic libraries that as Open Source, anybody can use. /Steve

Edit no 2: Those names mentioned above was a list of modders supporting open source in the past. All have acknowledged their participation in Sims 3 and this project with the exception of Mootilda and Atavera (thus their names are removed). We're sorry for the confusion!

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On Jun 1, 2009 MoMama wrote:
This is excellent news! I'm more excited by the day!
On Jun 2, 2009 riccinumbers wrote:
Oh Thank God, custom content to be made, I love when we can work together!
On Jun 2, 2009 CD43 wrote:
This is awesome news!
On Jun 2, 2009 PenelopeT wrote:
Great job! I hope everyone appreciates your hard work and willingness to share with the rest of the Sim community. That's really classy of you guys.
On Jun 2, 2009 DOT wrote:
sweet~
On Jun 2, 2009 DiamondSim wrote:
This is most excellent news! I am also getting more excited every day! Thanks a billion, you guys!  
On Jun 2, 2009 SIMcredible! wrote:
I am glad and very happy to know that things are going fine Thanks to you all guys and your hard work the community sure will always have the best of creativity with sims games!
On Jun 2, 2009 twin2162 wrote:
Whoo!! keep it up. All us are excited to hear the news that its coming together nicly. Thank you for all your hard work, Its greatly appreciated!!
On Jun 2, 2009 TabbyLou wrote:
Some very impressive "likes" you have there to collaborate with. On pins & needles waiting for the tool!
On Jun 2, 2009 skystars5 wrote:
*Swoons over major names collaborating*  Thank you all! 
On Jun 2, 2009 openhousejack wrote:
cool
On Jun 2, 2009 tdyannd wrote:
Sweet! I can't wait!
On Jun 2, 2009 Elut wrote:
Great news
On Jun 2, 2009 evi wrote:
Great! I can't wait
On Jun 2, 2009 Vanilla Sim wrote:
Wonderful news!!
On Jun 2, 2009 Pinecat wrote:
Perfect!
On Jun 2, 2009 francien wrote:
Best news ever, and so great that you all are working together on this, that shows another side of a great community and that is great!! Good luck with the progress
On Jun 2, 2009 _kriss wrote:
This is great news!
On Jun 3, 2009 liberty wrote:
This is good news. If we work together we will make it happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On Jun 3, 2009 dymand1968 wrote:
I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!  Please, please, please hurry!!!!!! 
On Jun 3, 2009 Jennifer_R wrote:
This is the coolest!   Can't wait to test it out. Thanks for all your hard work!
On Jun 3, 2009 simgirl675 wrote:
this is great guys I can't wait on till the 5th june(uk release date) the sims 3 will be on it's way to me so excited yay!!!
On Jun 3, 2009 Grammy_Moon wrote:
Good luck everyone!
On Jun 3, 2009 WandaJBowen wrote:
Thank for all the hard work your doing to make this tool for us. I hope it will be easy to use.
On Jun 4, 2009 qvisn wrote:
All those top guys, bringing us more treasures. Thank you.
On Jun 4, 2009 Kadan wrote:
Can't wait!!
On Jun 4, 2009 ctrbl46 wrote:
Whoohoo, yeah......I am very glad things are working very nicely for the Sims3, espcecially since I have unstialled all of the Sims2 and is now only playing the Sims3....  Whoo,hoo, thanks for all your hard work and diligently working at it....
On Jun 4, 2009 Cerulean Talon wrote:
I'm extremely excited to get started creating for Sims 3. I can hardly wait! Any idea how much longer it will take? Thanks, Ceri
On Jun 4, 2009 baileydogger wrote:
Thank u guys so much! That is a lot of hard work by a lot of dedicated & talented people.Got the sims3 the day it came out!Awesome!The only complaint is not being able to move the cursor to the edge of the screen and the screen moving!UGH!Oh well nothing is perfect!It is awesome! Kendra
On Jun 4, 2009 dymand1968 wrote:
It won't come soon enough....They didn't give us many objects, walls, floors etc. to choose from.  I'm very disappointed with EA   .  For the price they charged there should have been more, a lot more.  But I do thank you for making it possible for us to have custom content.  For this I applaud you!!!!!  Thank you TSR!!!!!       
On Jun 4, 2009 wannaretire wrote:
This will make me very happy if I decide to buy "3",  the price is a lot, and by the time they start putting out expansion packs a person has way to much invested in a game, especially when you are on a limited income.
On Jun 4, 2009 MotoD wrote:
Great!
On Jun 4, 2009 KDLANG0 wrote:
I can´t wait to see what you guys come up with! Got the Sims 3 and I´m just so disappointed with their content! (They look so cheap!)
On Jun 4, 2009 mrsfoxichik wrote:
Thanks guys, can't wait to see what you come up with. Only got sims3 running on my computer now, so it'll be nice to start filling it up with your wonderful creations! . . . . You're all brilliant!
On Jun 7, 2009 larrydot wrote:
I too was dissappinted in the content of the game . I need more clothes, hair, objects, patterns, and shoes!!! I can't wait to see what the talented artists come up with to improve my sims homes and lives. Thank you all so much!

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