How Personalities are Defined in Paralives

Hello! Alex here for a new Patreon post that I’ve been looking forward to!

The personality of each of your Parafolks is what will make them feel unique and human. It will also make your game sessions quite different depending on the choices you have made for the personality. Let’s dive into that! 🔒 This post is for Patrons only so please don’t share it, thank you!

👩‍🏫 The Basics

• 👩‍💼 In the Paramaker, you select various aspects of your personality
• 🎮 While playing, you level up your personality to evolve it with new traits and perks
• 💥 Personality traits have big impacts on the gameplay

🧠 The Personality Elements

Here’s the personality for a character named Rachel that I’ve just created:

Now, let me break down for you the various sections of the personalities in Paralives:

Stats

👉 Place points in these stats:

1. Physique: How well your character does regarding physical strength, agility and general health
2. Mind: How good your character is at things like problem solving, logic and mathematics
3. Creativity: The ability of your Parafolks to create
4. Charisma: This is for all things related to communication and leadership

By default, there will be one point in each stat and you will be able to spend 3 additional points in any stats you like. However, you can remove a point in a stat to set it to 0. Doing so, you will gain 1 extra point to place in another stat but your character will become disadvantaged in that stat. For instance, having zero points in Charisma might make social encounters more challenging.

Vibe

This is the general impression your Parafolk gives. Each vibe will come with perks and particularities that will affect the gameplay in various ways.

👉 Pick one:

• Grumpy
• Overjoyed
• Gloomy
• Energic
• Serious
• Anxious
• Jester
• Peaceful

*More vibes may be added and this list is subject to change

Social Perk

Depending on the social perk you choose for your character, it will allow them to do better in certain social situations.

👉 Pick one:

• Good at being alone
• Good at making friends
• Good at take caring care of others
• Good at romantic relationships
• Good with family

*More social perks may be added and the list is subject to change

Talent

Talents are linked to the skills that we have in Paralives. Any Parafolk can work on any skill in the game but if a character is talented in a skill category, it will come with perks that will help them progress in the associated skills.

👉 Pick one:

• Music
• Fitness
• Science
• Technology
• Food
• Visual arts
• Jack of all trades
• Good at nothing

*More talents may be added and this list is subject to change

Lifestyles

Lifestyles are simpler traits to further customize your characters. They guide the decisions your characters will make when performing interactions autonomously.

👉 Pick as many as you want:

• Vegetarian
• Sleeping habits: early bird, night owl or standard
• Cleaning habits: sloppy, neat or standard

*More lifestyles may be added later

🌟 Evolving your Personality

In Paralives, the personality isn’t static. As you play, your Parafolks will be able to level up their personality and select interesting upgrades to evolve their base personality.

Playing with your characters will progressively increase their personality level.

When your Parafolk gains a personality level, you will be able to upgrade an element of their personality. These upgrades will be powerful perks that will help your character in their everyday life.

Tell us what you think about all this in the comments below! We’re looking forward to sharing more examples of the many many interesting things you will be able to experience while playing based on the personalities of your different Parafolks.

Have a great weekend!

Alex

Edit - February 7, 2024: This post is now public, feel free to share it!