SimGuruIcarus over at the official The Sims forums has released a post showing Simmers on how they can get their gallery creations curated by Maxis.
If you do not know what Maxis Curated is, well it’s a specific category in The Sims 4’s Gallery that showcases creations that are approved by the Maxis team and many times The Sims official Twitter page will showcase them by tweeting the builds or households. Mostly all Maxis curated builds and households will have a number of downloads and likes.
Here is what SimGuruIcarus had to say on the matter:
Via The Sims Forum
It’s been a while since we last talked about Maxis Faves (also known as Maxis Curation). First we want to start by thanking you all for your amazing contributions to the Gallery. We are deeply in love with the creativity of this wonderful community! Next we would like to shed some light on our procedure, the channels that we commonly use, and the things we consider when reviewing candidates.
Also, as an initial note, you should know that we check and test all items before we curate them. There are several things that we check for, as we want all players to have the best experience with your creations.
– Households
- Be innovative with your outfits. We all enjoy Sims with different looks!
- Households with custom poses will not be curated, unless the Sim or Pet is standing and showing most of the body.
- Celebrities, public figures, or copyrighted fictional characters cannot be curated.
- We love backstories! They are not required, but we really enjoy reading the stories you create, and we believe other players do as well.
– Lots and Rooms
- Lots or rooms created using custom content will also not be considered for Maxis Curation.
- Although we love the incredible things that you do with MOO, not all users are familiar with this cheat. So, when we test these lots/rooms, we do so without enabling any cheats. (Maybe “motherlode”, but don’t tell anyone
). By doing those checks without MOO, sometimes we encounter different issues that prevent us from doing a Maxis Fave:
- Overlapping items can cause visual bugs. Make sure there is no flickering by rotating, moving and zooming the camera.
- Be careful how you arrange your furniture and decoration! We love crowded lots and rooms, but Sims must always be able to interact with every item.
- Sims should also be able to get into every room of the lot, or any other accessible area, like gardens or pools.
- Lots and rooms created using MOO can also cause items to disappear after placing them. Keep that in mind.
- Houses and rooms should appear as they do in the thumbnail. Custom thumbnails will also prevent us from considering your item for curation.
- We do not curate content that resembles or mentions copyrighted content. We are sorry to that gorgeous castle from Frozen.
- We are impressed of how creative you can get when resizing items. That’s fine as long as those items are not missing when placing the room/lot or do not flicker.
- The complexity of the room/lot could be important when considering items for curation. But do not be discouraged! We also love simple rooms or starter lots!
- Price of the room/lot does not factor into our decision.
- We do not always test the item on the same lot or season they were created, but this does not impact the likelihood of selection.
– General
- We do not curate anything that violate our Terms of Service. You can find them here.
- We will only curate original content. Content from other users that has been re-uploaded will not be considered. Please respect your fellow creators.
- Item description and profile gallery page should not contain any offensive or inappropriate content or language.
- We really like holiday-based creations! So do not hesitate to build and share all your themed items when those holidays are near!
- We do not only curate items from established content creators. We also try to highlight newly added items from smaller and unknown creators.
Share with Us!
We are always on the hunt for cool recently uploaded creations in the Gallery, but you can always help by recommending other player’s creations using these threads (that we check daily):
For Lots
For Rooms
