SimGuruGraham has just announced that the winner of the “Create a Stuff Pack” vote is Eco Living! This stuff pack will focus on content like laundry, home technology, and solar energy. The next vote starts April 10th, and that vote will determine the art style for this theme. Information on the packs that didn’t win can be found here.

After a vote spanning four days, eco living has emerged as the winning theme! We’ve compiled the results from all of the various regions players around the world voted from, and here’s the order each theme placed in…

1. Eco Living

2. Starter Home

3. Dangerous

4. Wedding

5. Arcade

With a winner selected, we can all look forward to the next important step of development, and to focus discussion here on the forum towards eco living.

So, just what is next? Well, on April 10th we’ll kick off another big vote to determine the art style for our eco living theme. Eco living means different things to different people, and I’m excited for all of you to share your vision. I’d suggest that we all think of eco living as a starting point for where this pack could go, rather than using the theme as a box that we constrain our ideas within.

As you saw in the theme vote, there are a number of potential directions we could take. Will laundry be the primary feature? Will green technology that responsibly enhances our home life play a significant role? Or, will we focus on living in ways that are in tune with nature and living off the land? For now, these are excellent discussions to have within this forum. Eventually we will have to narrow the pack down from our broad theme to a very specific direction. Going forward, your votes will help solidify the answers to these questions.

If you’re curious to learn more about what happens to the themes that didn’t win, I invite you to click here and read my other thread on that subject.