Happy Holidays + Money Cheat Results + more!
Added 2020-12-18 18:45:03 +0000 UTCHello there,
This will be our last post of the year as we will take some time off over the next two weeks to come back fresh and ready for the new year! We will be back to our regular weekly post schedule right after that.
Breakdown of the year
So much happened in the last year and it's been incredibly exciting and intense to work on this game with the support from everyone here on Patreon and in the community! If 2019 was the year of the build mode, 2020 was the year of the Parafolks! We started to work on them in January and we revealed Maggie and Sebastian, our first Paras, during the year. We've been hard at work on Paramaker features as well as improving the build mode. 2021 will be the year of the simulation mode and more gameplay elements!
One year ago, we were only 3 on the team and now we're 7! Thanks to the generous contribution from everyone on Patreon, the team has grown and we'll be able to recruit 3 more members soon (we are still actively looking for the best candidates). Also, Sonia just finished her two months internship and we are very happy to welcome her in the team as a full-time 3D artist!
The year 2020 in numbers:
- 5 590 more Patrons (from 3185 to 8775 in a year). We are so grateful!
- 2 900 private messages and emails received (replied to by Christine)
- 1 500 000 messages sent by everyone on Discord
- 29 weekly developer chat sessions on Discord
- 70 000 total hours watched for our Youtube videos
- 17 257 answers to our 3 community surveys
- 100% of our Patrons and community are awesome
- 100% awesomeness level reached by our Discord moderators
- 50 000 members reached on Discord
- 100 000 followers reached on Twitter
- 200 000 subscribers reached on Youtube
- 33 cat pictures shared by Jérémie on our Slack
Don't forget to look at the development page on our website for the full breakdown of the new features we worked on this year: https://www.paralives.com/development
Money Cheat Winner
Thank you for voting in the money cheat poll last week! In addition to the PayDay and Lottery cheats which were already confirmed in that post, here are the final winners that will be added officially to the game:
- Jackpot: Gain a huge amount of money
- MakeItRain: Gain a big amount of money
- PiggyBank: Gain a small amount of money
- PrintMoney X: gain X Paradimes
MakeItRain was the winner but we decided to add more cheats! The final amount that these cheats will grant will be decided later as we tweak the economy of the game.
Maggie Outfit Sketch
I hope you enjoyed yesterday's video about Maggie's holiday outfits! When Léa and Sonia started to work on the clothes for the video, they first made a concept so they could have a good idea of what it would look like before creating it in 3D. Here it is:
Wishes from the team
What a year this has been! The team and I would like to wish you happy holidays and we hope that you will be able to relax and cool down. Here's a few words from everyone on the team:
Jérémie: "I've been blown away by the support of the community during the time I was here in 2020, I can't wait to see what 2021 brings us! I hope you all have great holidays!"
Anna: "Thank you for your geeky enthusiasm for genetics and other fruitful discussions in here and on Discord <3 I'm grateful for what the community has brought to the project during this weird year and looking forward to the next!"
Christine: "After hundreds of great ideas from this community, thousands of new friends and a whole lot of new functionalities, it’s time to jump into 2021. Thank you for your support throughout 2020 and see you next year for more brainstorming!"
Sonia: "Thank you guys for the huge amount of support, positive energy, amazing ideas and funny memes on discord! I sincerly wish you all the best for 2021! <3"
Léa: "I'm beyond thankful for the support and the opportunity that you guys gave us. I which you all happiness and peace for this year to come, take care of yourself and your family! See you soon <3"
Alice: "Thank you so much these amazing last 6 months, the whole Paralives community has been so kind and supportive, I cannot wait to see what 2021 will bring us! Happy holidays to you all, take care of yourself and your loved ones, see you next year! <3"
2021 is looking good for Paralives and it's in great part because of you so thank you and have a wonderful year with love, happiness, success, health and everything you wish!
Alex
Comments
Hello! I've just joined. I've been playing the Sims on and off since it first came out in 2000 when I was 11 years old. I rarely play it now though as it's lost it's magic and feels dated. I still love the life simulation concept so it's great to see another version of that game concept being developed. Really excited for Paralives.
2021-01-02 23:22:48 +0000 UTCHappy new year to everyone! Hoping that 2021 brings everyone some extra happiness to make up for last year!
Julia Samantha
2021-01-01 12:52:41 +0000 UTCHappy holiday
Lucie Baha
2020-12-31 17:38:14 +0000 UTChappy holidays and happy new years in fews hours :)
2020-12-31 16:23:59 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays!
BlueRoseFury
2020-12-30 17:22:25 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays! Enjoy your break!
2020-12-30 17:03:31 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas, everyone!
2020-12-26 03:27:38 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays to the team! You all have done such fantastic work on this game, it's looking better and better with each reveal!
2020-12-26 01:52:37 +0000 UTCThank you to the entire development team for your hard work, passion, and dedication to this community. I am thankful for each of you and wish you all a happy and healthy Holiday season!
Kaitlyn Metro
2020-12-23 16:22:24 +0000 UTCThat is a great idea!
2020-12-21 20:06:28 +0000 UTCwould you guys be interested on asking ex-sims gurus to be apart of your team?
Nadia
2020-12-20 22:35:53 +0000 UTCthank u <3
Luc
2020-12-20 19:18:35 +0000 UTClove it
Luc
2020-12-20 19:13:48 +0000 UTCJoyeux Noël à tous <3<3<3<3<3<3
Mag Gamemagg
2020-12-20 13:46:22 +0000 UTCgreat job guys happy holidays<3
Iris Duan
2020-12-20 03:45:12 +0000 UTCHappy holidays!! Enjoy the break. Everything looks amazing and every update gets me more and more excited. I particularly love the attention to detail and especially that not everything is super perfect and symmetrical, including the way that Maggie stands and moves.
2020-12-19 20:51:53 +0000 UTCGreat job team thank you for listening to us and making the game of our dreams happy holidays
2020-12-19 20:33:04 +0000 UTCFirst off: Happy Holidays, yall! I am as always uber impressed with your work! I'm proud to be a Patreon of y'all and I'm so grateful you share this journey with us and listen to our suggestions. Second, every time a suggestion I made gets used (PiggyBank, in this case) I get SO EXCITED! it means a lot to have a chance to put input suggestions in. Joyeux Noël et j'espère que vous passer une bonne année!
Kitten Walters
2020-12-19 19:56:03 +0000 UTCHappy holidays, ParaTeam ! It's been a crazy year on many fronts, but I'm glad it was overall positive for you and Paralives :) You deserve some R&R ! Make sure you come back from your break ready for an even crazier 2021...
ladyteruki
2020-12-19 19:14:16 +0000 UTCSeasons and weather are confirmed. You can see rain in the cemetary video and snow in last year's Christmas video as well as snowflakes falling outside the window in Holiday Outfits video
Domon0310
2020-12-19 08:59:53 +0000 UTCOne hell of a year to paralives! thank you so much for sharing all of the progression with all of us! :)
2020-12-19 08:17:55 +0000 UTCCongrats Sonia for becoming full-time! Merry Christmas ParaDevs ♥️ Enjoy your winter break ❄️⛄️
Simmons
2020-12-19 01:30:49 +0000 UTCThis is kind of unrelated to this post, but something I'd like to ask... Are you guys considering adding climate and weather to your game? If so, I noticed one thing lacking in the other game, is that they don't have raindrops gliding down on the windows. I think it would be super amazing to have that feature in your game, if you decide to add weather, which I guess I never researched to see if that's something you plan to do. I think one of my favorite things in the world is rainy weather, and watching the rain fall outside with the rain water gliding down over the window. Snow would also be amazing. :)
Elizabeth Gonzales
2020-12-19 01:30:23 +0000 UTCMerry Christmas!! :)
justyourfan
2020-12-19 01:23:39 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays!
Zayne Caspersen
2020-12-19 00:25:53 +0000 UTCThat shock when you find out your suggestion won *clasps heart*
Melon
2020-12-18 23:10:43 +0000 UTCI can't wait to learn more about the gameplay. Happy Holidays 💗
KittyPara
2020-12-18 22:58:56 +0000 UTCI have been following since the beginning, I’m so excited for what the next year brings us. Happy holidays, take the well deserved break!
1luckydandelion
2020-12-18 22:21:50 +0000 UTCMerry christmas! I hope you have a swell time and that we have more awesomeness to look forward to in 2021!
Kiiiwiii
2020-12-18 22:18:25 +0000 UTCHappy holidays to you all and also everyone in the community! I truly love being on Discord just sharing ideas with everyone and I love chatting with the devs there at times too!❤️❤️❤️ Wishing you all the best!
LightDeficient
2020-12-18 21:29:15 +0000 UTCI’m so happy for all that you’ve accomplished this year and I’m so proud of you and proud to be a part of this! Can’t wait for what you have planned for next year 😁 Happy holidays and have a great time off, you deserve it! ❤️
Anna Wendel
2020-12-18 21:10:33 +0000 UTCThank you, team, for your wonderful wishes! I pray a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to each one of you! 🎄🙏🎄 Enjoy your well deserved rest and please stay safe!! 🎄😁🎄 See you next year!!
tey711
2020-12-18 21:04:05 +0000 UTC💖🎄🎁⛄🎅🏾🎊🕎💝
Nyasia Phyall
2020-12-18 20:55:52 +0000 UTCWishing everyone in the paralives development team a wonderful, safe holiday!!! Cannot wait for what new things you guys will add to the game in 2021!
queentowwy
2020-12-18 20:52:00 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays, team!! Hope you all have a wonderful break and I can’t wait for what 2021 will bring for Paralives 😄
Samara Stanleigh
2020-12-18 20:44:25 +0000 UTCNo but there will still be SetMoney for that Happy holidays!
Alex Massé
2020-12-18 20:41:52 +0000 UTCWill printmoney subtract paradimes if we enter a negative number? Happy holidays guys!
Aaron
2020-12-18 20:39:13 +0000 UTCHappy holidays! 🎄
ღPark Nikkiღ
2020-12-18 19:52:36 +0000 UTCSo cute 💗
ღPark Nikkiღ
2020-12-18 19:52:08 +0000 UTClove youuu
sofst
2020-12-18 19:50:11 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays to everyone in the Team. You worked so hard on everything and I’m so excited to see what you guys will show us in 2021. See you in 2 weeks hopefully healthy and happy ❤️
Tini
2020-12-18 19:31:24 +0000 UTCHappy holidays, team! Looking forward to what 2021 will bring.
AmorFati
2020-12-18 19:25:13 +0000 UTCHappy happy holidays to the Paralives team! Following the development of this game has been one of the few joys for me in 2020, and I cannot wait to see how it progresses even further in 2021! This community is amazing and I'm so glad to be a part of it. See you all next year!
Bespectacled_Beans
2020-12-18 19:21:10 +0000 UTCThank you Alex and paralives team for always being so transparent and open with us. We really appreciate all that you all have done and I am so happy that Sonia has completed her internship and is back on the team!! 2020 was and still is rough but the updates you gave us made it tolerable. I cant wait for what's in stores for 2021 with Paralives! Happy Holidays to everyone!! ❤❤❤
Diamond Nicole
2020-12-18 19:18:41 +0000 UTCHappy holidays 🎉 I hope you all will have a wonderful winter time with your family and friends enjoy the next couple weeks ☺️ see you guys next year❤️🥰
luana maria
2020-12-18 19:16:35 +0000 UTCAhhh!! I love it here!!💕💕 Amazing setup up for the money cheats and I'm so glad PrintMoney made it 🤣🤣 Ready for an awesome new year with all of you!! 😁🥰
HimbroSimp
2020-12-18 19:16:34 +0000 UTCAhhh I'm so honored MakeItRain won!! I've been playing sims for over a decade, and I really care about this project, so to have contributed a small detail makes me really happy <3
norree
2020-12-18 19:06:30 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays to everyone on the Paralives team and everyone here in the comments! Happy New Year to everyone as well! (I voted for PrintMoney so I'm happy to see it'll be a cheat too!)
Dizzardy
2020-12-18 19:05:14 +0000 UTCParalives - or Alex Massé, as the patreon is called, was the very first patreon I pledged to! Since then, I’ve pledged to some seriously fantastic cc creators for sims 4, but as my money have been a bit tight from time to time, I’ve canceled some of those pledges again. One patreon page has been of limits to cancel, and that is you guys. I would never cancel my pledge, (it’s not the highest tier, but it is what I can do for now) because no one deserves the support more than you, for the insane amount of hard work you put into this game! Merry christmas and happy new year to all of you! Take a well deserved break, and see you next year! 😍😍
Barbara
2020-12-18 19:04:49 +0000 UTCHappy holidays! And I'd like to say that I love the name for the game's currency - Paradimes.
Victoria Franklin
2020-12-18 19:02:22 +0000 UTCThank you for everything, rest well guys! :)
Aleksandra Gołębiewska
2020-12-18 19:01:04 +0000 UTCHave a great Christmas holiday! Everything is looking amazing so far. Can't wait to see what 2021 brings 💜💙💚❤
2020-12-18 18:58:49 +0000 UTCI wish you all an amazing holiday! Let's hope 2021 will be a better year for the world.
2020-12-18 18:57:41 +0000 UTCThis is awesome! Enjoy the hard earned vacation and take care everyone ❤️
2020-12-18 18:56:34 +0000 UTCThanks for your hard work on this game and to you being so dedicated to including the community with the development as well! We appreciate all of you! Have a happy holiday season :)
It'sMike64
2020-12-18 18:55:11 +0000 UTCLove you guys!!! Happy Holidays everyone!! 🎄🎄🎄✨❇🎇🎆
2020-12-18 18:54:44 +0000 UTCHappy holidays!!!!
Mo Des
2020-12-18 18:54:41 +0000 UTCYou guys rock, and deserve all of the good stuff that is happening to you ❤️🥰🎉
Berta López
2020-12-18 18:53:59 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays guys! Thanks so much for your hard work! 🎉🎊
Kunato
2020-12-18 18:50:53 +0000 UTCI suggested MakeItRain, how exciting! Happy holidays to all of you!!
2020-12-18 18:50:00 +0000 UTCThank you guys for making the simulation communities dream game! Im so proud of the whole team and all you have done from the start onward! Have Happy Holidays all of you!
Aaron J Levesque
2020-12-18 18:49:56 +0000 UTCSaw the notification pop up right as I was rewatching the Maggie holiday video for the 17th time😂😍. Love you all. Can’t wait !
Amanda Shafer
2020-12-18 18:49:13 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays! Thank you all for working so hard to bring Paralives to life!! ❤
KittlynM
2020-12-18 18:48:50 +0000 UTCSo proud and happy!! Thankyou awesome devs! 🥰♥️🎄 love you all and have a amazing Christmas as you deserve!! 🎅🏻🎁✨
Becky
2020-12-18 18:48:16 +0000 UTCHappy Christmas! And I wish you the best in the new year! So excited for when the game releases, it’ll be amazing!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Lauren
2020-12-18 18:48:02 +0000 UTCThank you!! And Happy Holidays to everyone!!
2020-12-18 18:47:47 +0000 UTCSO PROUD OF YOU GUYS !!
Nadia
2020-12-18 18:47:34 +0000 UTCHappy Holidays to you all ❤️🎄
Julio Saliba
2020-12-18 18:46:41 +0000 UTCEnjoy the holidays guys! Love you!
Christophe Zajac
2020-12-18 18:46:36 +0000 UTC
