An amazing amount of you entered the giveaway to win an App Store and iTunes Gift Card, but there can only be two winners!
The winners are:
Kyri & fgib57
check your emails for your prize!
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Thank you all for your kind words on that post, it really means a lot to me! x
4 years ago today I started this blog and wow it has been an incredible journey! I honestly didn’t expect anyone to read this but to date this blog has received over 55 million hits! I would just like to thank all of you for being part of this, if it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t still be here writing this. I also have to thank the wonderful community manager at EA for giving me the confidence that this blog is actually good, making me part of EA GameChangers, inviting me to EA events and allowing me early access to new content to be able to bring you the information as early as possible.
In the future I will be branching out to more games, I will still be playing The Sims Freeplay but there are loads of new games that I want to play and talk about (when I get around to getting a new iPad) so hopefully you will want to read about them!
It is just amazing to see that this blog is read all over the world, in every country in fact!! To say thank you I will be giving away a £10 (or equivalent in your currency) App Store and iTunes Gift Card to two of you wonderful people! (THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!)
To enter all you need to do is comment on this post with the country you currently live in, please include a name or nickname in the name section and a valid email address in the email section (don’t worry your email won’t be made public, I just need it to send you your prize if you win!)
You have until Saturday the 28th October at 10am BST to enter and winners will be announced shortly afterwards THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!
Thank you again and Good Luck!
A new game was released this week called Home Street, I am going to explain the basics of the game and what I think of it so far. 
When you first begin the game you customise your character and then they move into a house that you can also customise as you progress through the game:
The aim of the game is to produce materials on workstations to complete jobs and tasks. You start with the easel workstation to produce paintings and new workstations can be brought from the shopping cart when you level up and unlock them:
Once a material has been produced a pop up of that item will appear, click on it to collect it:
Materials will go into the storeroom which has a capacity of 40 items to start with:
To produce materials you need to use thoughts, you produce these in the thought bubble icon by clicking on the thoughts at the top of the screen, underneath them it tells you how long it takes to produce them. I think they could change this to make it easier to see when an item has been produced:
You do only have space for 40 thoughts which fills up quickly, I hope this won’t be another one of those games where the items you need to upgrade are hard to find!
How do you know what thoughts and materials you need?
Underneath the picture of the item you are making there is a picture or several pictures of the items you need to make that item, for example, cupcakes require 1 fun thought and carrot cake requires 1 fun thought and 1 vegetables. Vegetables aren’t a thought, they are an item you make using the garden bed:
Once you have created materials you can complete jobs (phone symbol) if you have the materials you need click complete to earn your reward, some jobs require thoughts instead of materials:
Producing materials and completing jobs helps you to complete tasks, completing these unlocks places around the town:
Where are these icons located?
So far I like this game, it does remind me of SimCity Build It with the material producing and also the new The Sims Mobile game although I think the controls and graphics are more basic than those games. This game does crash a lot on my poor old iPod so I haven’t been able to play it for long however that’s due to the age of my device and not the game itself but I will definitely be playing it more once I get a new iPad and I will actually be able to play The Sims Mobile when it is released (which disappointingly isn’t compatible with older devices, just so you know!) as well as many other new exciting games!
Have you tried Home Street yet? What do you think?
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