Snowflake Day is retitled Winterfest in The Sims 4: Seasons, and it involves decorating, opening gifts, partaking in a grand meal, and receiving a visit from Father Winter, this installment’s equivalent of Santa Claus. Each sim will automatically receive presents, and they will all gather round to open them in a random order. Players can instruct their sims to throw a gift-giving party over the phone. Sims will receive a day off from work and possibly a holiday bonus. In The Sims 3: Seasons, Snowflake Day is given a name, but Santa is notably absent. He will arrive at the party around 23:00 and start using noise makers around midnight, after which, he will transform into Toddler New Year. Like Santa, he cannot be added to a household, but he can be interacted with. Similarly, a new character called Father Time will appear if a sim throws a New Year’s Bash. This Santa can be interacted with, but he will not appear in the relationship panel, and adding him to a household will cause corruption. Santa serves a similar function in this game, leaving presents if there are Santa cookies and a Christmas tree on the lot. Santa reappears as “Santa Klaus” in The Sims 2: Holiday Party Pack and later The Sims 2: Happy Holiday Stuff, a more inclusive pack containing items and NPCs related to Christmas as well as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Years Eve. Sims cannot interact with him, but he will leave a present for every sim in the household, though only one will contain an actual gift. Santa will appear if a plate of cookies is left near a Christmas tree and a fireplace.

Though the holiday wasn’t named before that installment, the first references to winter festivities came about in The Sims: Livin’ Large, in which Santa Claus was featured as an NPC. In a previous post, I discussed the gameplay mechanics and history of seasons, which lead me to briefly mention Snowflake Day, officially titled as such in The Sims 3: Seasons. Onto the fun stuff! As I’m sure you’re aware, Christmas was a week ago, so the topic of the day shall be the holiday season as it relates to The Sims franchise. I know Tumblr is a bit of a mess right now, so I’m also working on creating a Wordpress blog as a back up so that I can follow the community wherever it goes. I have a lot of fun stuff lined up for my followers, including both my usual posts, new resource pages, and hopefully more interviews.

Never mind that because I come bearing news: starting with Wednesday January 9th, Plumbob Post will return to having updates twice a week. As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve had a lot of upheavals in the past few months, but thankfully, all of that is settling down with the new year.

You may have noticed that it’s been a while since you’ve heard from me.

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