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SimAnimals

Venture into the wild forest in SimAnimals (DS)! Use your stylus and mic to care for animals and solve challenges.

release: January 27, 2009platforms: Nintendo DS
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SimAnimals

Overview

Game information

First release January 27, 2009
Platforms
Nintendo DS
Developer
Maxis

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Gameplay highlights

Key Features

Engage with wild animals

Touch, move, and play with a forest full of animals including bears, squirrels, foxes, badgers, and owls! To journey deeper into the forest, you need to fulfill these animals’ basic needs. Earn your animals’ trust, and they’ll play with you; be mean to them, and they will fear you.

Explore the vast forest and make it your own

Explore the vast forest and make it your own

Embark on new adventures when you unlock forest areas including woodlands, swamps, or castle ruins. Move and pick up everything in your forest. Some plants grow better near water, and certain animals are healthier when close to particular food sources. The happier your animals and plants, the more places you’ll have to explore and discover new objects and animals!

Solve challenges

Solve challenges

The animals need YOU in order to live happily in the forest. Help them gain access to food, move into your forest, clean polluted areas, and much more.

Survival of the fittest!

Find out who the troublemakers and the good guys are, and make sure they all get along … or not!

Discover secrets in the wild

Discover secrets in the wild

More lies in the forest than what meets the eye. Uncover one-of-a-kind objects and animals, some with special abilities, by completing tasks.

Touch everything in the world and more (Nintendo DS™ only)

Touch everything in the world and more (Nintendo DS™ only)

Interact directly with the animals in their environment using your stylus, while your Nintendo DS microphone lets you become the wind. Blow into the mic to gather fruit from trees, spread blossoms, and to see what else happens!

Presentation

About this game

Venture into the wild world of animals like never before. Embrace all the adventure, fun, and mischief that await you in the vast forest. Feed a bear what he craves. Pick up a rabbit or hedgehog, and bring him to his friends. Discover what other creatures lurk in the wild. You have the power to reach out and touch, pick up and move everything in the forest from squirrels and foxes to trees and flowers. Make your wild animals happy and maintain a forest that lets them flourish as you venture further into the forest than you've ever been before! Engage wild animals, experience life in the forest, and let your creativity run wild in SimAnimals™.

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Credits

247Development credits
1Publishers
0SIMusics artists

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PRODUCTION TEAM 3 credits

Executive Producer

1

Producer

1

Assistant Producer

1
DEVELOPMENT TEAM 5 credits

Senior Director of Product Development

1

Development Director

1

Associate Development Manager

1

Development Testers

2
DESIGN TEAM 2 credits

Creative Director

1

Designer

1
ENGINEERING TEAM 7 credits

Technical Director

1

Engineers

5

Engineering Intern

1
ART TEAM 9 credits

Art Director

1

Lead Artist

1

Artists

5

Additional Animation and Art

2
AUDIO 13 credits

Audio Director

1

Audio Specialist

2

Voice Actors

5

Music Composed and Programmed by

1

SimAnimals Theme — Composer

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SimAnimals Theme — Producer

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External Voice Recording Studios

2
THE SIMS LABEL MANAGEMENT 16 credits

President, The Sims Label

1

SVP / Head of Sims Studio

1

VP, COO, The Sims Label

1

VP, Worldwide Marketing

1

Senior Product Manager

2

Product Manager

2

Director of European Marketing

1

Director, European Product Marketing

1

Senior Regional Product Manager

1

Director of PR, The Sims Label

1

Director of Market Research

1

Administrative Assistant

1

Senior Project Manager

1

Senior Writer

1
Quality Assurance & Testing 21 credits

Director of QA, WW

1

Director of QA, NA

1

Sr. QA Manager

1

QA Manager

1

QA Project Lead

1

QA Assistant Leads

2

QA Testers

5

QA Shared Services Manager

1

QA Compliance Leads

4

QA Compliance Testers

2

QA Hardware Support

1

QA Administrative Assistant

1
VMC - Hyderabad, India 87 credits

Sr. QA Leads

2

QA Lead

1

QA Senior Tester

1

QA Testers

5

EA Certification

78
LOCALIZATION TEAM — Europe 40 credits

International Project Manager

1

Lead Integration Engineer

1

LT Project Manager

2

LT Team Leads

8

LT Testers

11

LOC Coordinator

7

Translators

10
LOCALIZATION TEAM — Asia 19 credits

International Project Manager

1

Localization Producers

2

Localization Testing

13

Asia Mastering

3
Special Thanks 25 credits

Special Thanks

25

Publishing

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