The Apple Dumpling Gang for The Sims 2

The Apple Dumpling Gang Character Pack is a set of two Sims2Pack files made for The Sims 2 in late 2005 by what would become later known as Dozerfleet Labs.

Description
Inspired by some shirt patterns for creating cowboy Sims in The Sims 2, this package sought to make Theodore and Amos from Disney's classic film into Sims. The old Utterly Sims description read as follows:

Those disastrous excuses for outlaws from the Disney classic are back!

Theodore (Don Knotts) and Amos (Tim Curry) are now available as Sims for you.

Package contents

 * Amos Tucker
 * d5a86f89_130514b5 (face preset)
 * Amos outfit recolor


 * Theodore Ogelvie
 * d5a86f89_26ea55a1 (face preset)
 * Theodore shirt recolor
 * Theodore hat recolor

Abandoned contents
The following Sims were going to be included, but were dropped from the final package:


 * Russel Donovan
 * Dusty Clydesdale
 * Bobby Bradley
 * Clovis Bradley
 * Celia Bradley

Requirements
The entire set was made to be base game-compatible, as there were no Young Adult Sims included. Set in the Old West, the university system in the University expansion pack was not a concept. Therefore, no University content was used.

Development
For the reasons mentioned above, this pack was pursued for development for what would later become known as DzMD. At this time, the Dozerfleet founder's modding skills were still very minimal. All outfit recolors and face sculpting were done in The Sims 2 Body Shop. Recoloring was done with Photoshop Elements. The initial release for Mod the Sims was completed around Friday, December 9th of 2005 - one week before finals week for the CITP 110 class held in the fall of 2005 at Lansing Community College.

Around this same time, work on this project collided headfirst with time needed for completion of the LCC Federal Credit Union ATM, a VBA assignment near the end of the CITP 110 class. This advancement was also made around the same time that Ciem 3: Curse of the Millipede was being compiled into a WebCD bundle, along with Star Flops: Curse of the Medium Side, Lo-Mun's Cooking Adventure, When Bikes Argue 2, and Corando's "Don't Lose Hope" Music Video.

Distribution
This pack had a shelf life on Mod the Sims lasting from 2005 until about 2008. It was later redistributed on Tumblr under the Utterly Sims banner in September of 2014, before being removed once again. The pack was reuploaded to Blogger under the Dozerfleet Labs blog around June of 2020, with the files hosted on MediaFire.