2023: A Paralives Retrospective

Hi, it’s Alex 🙋‍♂️

It’s already time for the very last Patreon post of the year!! 🎉 We’re gonna take 2 weeks off and come back with our weekly post schedule on Friday, January 12. See you then!

For now, let’s dive into today’s subject: a recap of the year 2023 for Paralives and our goals for the year to come. This post is for Patrons only so please don’t share it, thank you! 🔐

🪑 Progress on the Build Mode Objects in 2023

At the start of 2023, we only had a handful of build mode objects in the game.

Right now, we have around 900 objects. So much progress on that front this year!

👖 The Paramaker Items Created in 2023

The hairstyles created in 2023.

The tops created in 2023.

The bottoms created in 2023.

The full body clothing items created in 2023.

That’s a lot of new hairstyles and clothing items! We’re getting closer and closer to the point where most players could find a lot of stuff they like to dress their Parafolks with. This year, we’ve also added tattoos, body hair, makeup, shoes, skin textures and more!

💿 The Paralives Soundtrack

At the start of the year, we had 4 pieces made for the game’s soundtrack. We now have 11 and we’re getting close to completion! The music will create a creative and cozy mood for the game which I can’t wait for you to experience. Meanwhile, here are some of the tracks that we’ve shared this year: Farewell Froggy, 4am, You Call That Dancing?, Life is Ok and Time Machine.

🌱 New Live Mode Features in 2023

2023 was a big year for Paralives’ live mode! Before that, we had focused a lot on the build mode and Paramaker but this year, we gave a big big push to the simulation aspect of the game:

• Needs
• Death
• Autonomy
• Relationship labels
• Togetherness: Do interactions as a group
• Together Cards
• Jobs and career progression
• Personality stats and traits
• Evolvable personality
• Pathfinding and better character walking animations
• Dirty and broken objects
• Fire (still haven’t shown this one 👀)
• More skills (piano, guitar, painting and more)
• Pick recipes to cook or piano music to play
• Spoken Language: Parli
• Bills
• First version of babies and toddlers
• Many many new interactions and character animations

🎯 2024 Goals

We are almost done with the core gameplay features we wanted to have in the game which is incredibly exciting! Now, we need to improve them to make sure they are fun and that players will have enough content to play with. Our goals for 2024, more precisely:

• 🐜 Fix many bugs in the Paramaker, build mode and live mode
• 🙋‍♀️ To help with the above goal, we have hired a quality assurance tester who will start in January
• 💃 Add a lot more live mode content such as social interactions, jobs and skills
• 🔨 Make sure the build mode feels really nice to play with
• 👕 Add important missing build mode objects as well as Paramaker clothing items, hairstyles and accessories
• 📊 Balance the game’s economy, live mode gameplay systems and progression curve
• 🏃‍♀️ Show more and more of the live mode
• 💌 Keep writing one Patreon post and one social media post each week

📝 As a reminder, you can always follow our monthly progress on the development page of our website and look at our detailed roadmap to know which game features are completed and which are still missing.

That’s it for today’s post. We can’t wait to see you in 2024 because it’s going to be really exciting to share our progress as we get closer and closer to Paralives’ early access release.

Warmest wishes to you and your dear ones!

Cheers,

Alex