Hi everyone, Chloe here for today’s Patreon post! We’ve been hard at work creating our town, and we have many cool things in store. Today, I will be showing a little sneak peek at some shops you’ll be able to find in the plaza of the Old Town.
Sketching Out Ideas
Before starting anything in the game itself, we sketch out our ideas. This allows us to plan the look of our build, the layout, and the new items that will be required to give the shop its identity. It als...
2025-04-25 13:05:03 +0000 UTC
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For today’s Patreon post, Alejandro, Charlotte and Richard will be showcasing some snippets from new features as well as some bugs! This post is for Patrons only, please don’t share any of its content 🤫🔒
Character Randomization
Hi everyone, Alejandro here! I have a simple new feature to show today. We've added a new button that allows players to randomize their character’s visuals. It selects a random character from a big pool of premades with the same Life stage and...
2025-04-18 13:05:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Andrei here, ready to bring more of Paralives’ music to your ears! Right now, there are so many exciting things happening across all aspects of the game, and I’ve been working on some cool surprises that I can’t wait to share with you soon! Today, I’ll be showing you some Paramaker and Build mode music that I composed a while ago, as well as talking about the current state of our soundtrack and the next steps before our Early Access release.
🎥In the video above...
2025-04-11 14:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone, Léa here to bring you an amazing Paramaker update!
Sonia and I recently focused our efforts on adding more customizations for the smaller Parafolks, introduced to you in this post. We worked hard to add new clothes, hairstyles, and facial features, and it’s time to showcase them to you!
Creating Unique Babies and Toddlers
Sonia created all the Parafolks...
2025-04-04 13:35:15 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! Jérémie here, hoping you’re having a delightful Friday! In the last weeks, I’ve been working with Alex on tweaks and improvements to our live mode systems following feedback from our internal playtests. It’s really cool to have people on the team play the live mode and take notes on what they think works well (and doesn’t work as well), and then take the time to iterate and improve!
In this post, I’ll guide you through some of these changes and improvem...
2025-03-28 12:05:07 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone, Lina here for my first Patreon post! 🥳
Today, I would love to show you the animations Alice and I made recently! The theme is: Emotions!✨
You can watch the little showcase Alice made at the top of this Patreon Post. ⬆🎥
We’ve previously shared emotion animations in these two posts here and 2025-03-21 14:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone, Sonia here for a new post!
In today's update, we’re excited to showcase a variety of new hairstyles suitable for all styles and ages. Please note that jobs will be a rabbit hole for early access, so this build is purely for fun and to highlight the new hairstyles! Now sit back, relax, and let’s bleach those ends!
Here’s our amazing team of hairstylists for the day! Would you trust them with your hair?
2025-03-14 13:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi, Anna here!
Today, I’m here to update you on career features and new content I’ve been working on recently.
🔐As usual, today’s post is for Patrons only so please don’t share it, thanks!
🤩 Changes to the Interface for Careers
This interface allows players to track and manage how their career progresses.
Compared to ...
2025-03-07 15:09:56 +0000 UTC
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Hi, it’s Alex!
I’m here to talk about our progress on a crucial part of the game: social interactions! As you may remember, it works through what we call Together Cards which are choices offered to the player to drive the conversation in the desired direction. It was first explained in this post and Jérémie then shared more insights in this 2025-02-28 14:30:06 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone, Chloe here today for the Patreon post! A few weeks ago, we showed you all some exciting content; a first look at our town design and some historical buildings! We are still at work on the town and its facilities, and today, I will show you a little test piece for our industrial neighborhood.
Now, let’s roll!
2025-02-21 14:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
Charlotte, Richard and Alejandro here with today’s Patreon post! Charlotte will show you a peek at how gameplay features are tested followed by a showcase of a few special bugs. Richard will talk about pathfinding with staircases, finishing with Alejandro who will go into chair animations and item slots!
Quality Assurance Testing Process + Bug Showcase
Happy Valentine’s Day! ❣️Today I will give you guys a look behind the scenes at my process wit...
2025-02-14 14:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! Here we are with yet another behind-the-scenes post of the sounds of Paralives! In this post, we are going over some foley sounds (which we also showed in our last post about footstep recordings that you can check out here). This time, we’ll be focusing more on everyday household items! We’ll be checking which items need a sound and how we make them 🎙️
🎥In the above video, ...
2025-02-07 15:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi, it’s Alex!
When Paralives releases in Early Access later this year, your household will move into a carefully crafted town that we’re currently designing. Today, I’m excited to guide you through our creative process for the town's design and Léa will show you the first building we’ve made for it.
🎯 Our Goals with the Design of the Town
As we work more and more on the town, we’ll be able to share sn...
2025-01-31 14:26:23 +0000 UTC
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Happy New Year everyone, Alice here! 🧣🧤🧊⭐
Today, Lina and I would love to show you the animations we made recently! You can watch this little showcase at the top of this Patreon Post. ⬆🎥
🎥 The Animations in the Video
1. Pick Up Toddler From Floor
2. Put Toddler in High Chair
3. Toddler Sitting in High Chair - Idle
4. Toddler Making a Mess with Food
5. Toddler Eating Food in High Chair...
2025-01-24 14:05:01 +0000 UTC
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A (belated) happy new year to everybody! Jérémie here to take a deep dive into what we’re currently doing with the live mode: thinking about the mechanics related to the personality traits your Paras can have, making sure we have enough interesting features and implementing all that into the game! This post will be in two parts, where I’ll first talk about the design side of things and then the technical bits and bobs, so I hope you’ll find something that interests you somewhere in th...
2025-01-17 14:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone, Sonia here for the first post of the year!
Wishing you all a happy new year and all the best for the months ahead. On our side, we have plenty of exciting new things coming our way, as we aim to release Paralives in Early Access later this year!
For this post, we’ll feature a regular office team of Parafolk. Some seem to be struggling to get back into the rhythm of office life. Could it be the monotony of everyday work they didn’t miss, or did last night'...
2025-01-10 14:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi, Alex here!
It’s our 275th Patreon post (wow, we made so many!?) and the last one of the year so I’ll take this opportunity to summarize everything we’ve done and what’s to come in 2025! Please note that we will take a short break from publishing Patreon posts for the Holidays and we will be back on January 10th with our regular weekly posting schedule ⛄❄️
👍 4 Major Events for Paralives in 2024
1️⃣ February 7, 2024:&...
2024-12-20 14:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey there, it’s Alex.
Today’s post will be all about our progress on the live mode and a playtest session we did within the team so let’s get started! This post is for Patrons only so please don’t share it, thanks! 🔐
💌 A Word About the Postcards
A quick word before we get into today’s topic. This week, we’ve signed more than 600 postcards to send to Patrons on the Hero or Legend tier and we can’t wait for yo...
2024-12-13 15:13:31 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! Chloe here with a special Holiday Patreon post!
Today, I’m excited to showcase some new items we recently created so that Paras can celebrate winter festivities. I hope this will get you in a festive spirit! At the end, I also have a little extra content feature for the game’s painting skill. Please do not share this post, this is for patrons only!
Holiday Items
2024-12-06 14:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
This week’s post contains updates from Gab, Alex and Richard. Let’s get started! Note that this Patreon post is for Patrons only so please don’t share it, thank you! 🔒
Get an Exclusive Paralives Postcard Signed by the Team! 💌
Hii ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა Gab here to remind you that it’s that time of the year again! Don’t forget to upgrade your current pledge to Hero or Legend before D...
2024-11-29 14:25:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! We’re back with more audio behind-the-scenes posts! Last time we showcased the creation of one of our newest Build mode tracks “Little Trinkets” in this post right here! Check it out! This time we will go through some very simple yet probably one of the most important characters’ sounds to be added into the game: footsteps! 👣We’ll be talking about the things to con...
2024-11-22 15:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone, Léa here today to showcase some of the strangest objects we have ever created for the game!
Last year, Sonia, Chloé and I were tasked with a special week-long project to spice things up in our catalog by adding unique items (the weirder the better) and you loved it! I’m happy to announce that Chloé and I are back at it again this year. 😎
Like the prev...
2024-11-15 14:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi, it’s Gab!
Did you know that Paralives is entirely funded by fans? It’s a life simulation game made by the community, for the community, and has been able to grow over the years thanks to the incredible support of our Patrons.
Every week, we post exclusive updates on Patreon and our members get to share their input with us and shape the development of the game. Other rewards include having your name in the game’s credits, weekly Q&A with the devs, a signed phy...
2024-11-13 14:46:36 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! Jérémie here with this week’s Patreon post. We got back to working on the live mode now but I wanted to share a few extra build mode features and tweaks we’ve put into the game in the previous months. Everyone has contributed so I’ll mostly take the back seat and leave the team to talk about what they’ve done! As usual, this post is for patrons only, so you know what you should and shouldn’t do with it!
🐞Jérémie...
2024-11-08 14:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone, Alice here! ☀️🍂🧺🍪
Today is a good day to show you what Lina and I have been working on recently: Toddler Animations! To showcase these, I made a short video that you can watch at the top of this Patreon Post. ⬆🎥
🎥 The Animations in the Video
Standing Idle Variation 1
Standing Idle Variation 2
Standing Idle Variation 3
Sit On Floor
Sitti...
2024-11-01 13:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Hellooooooo everyone! The spirit of Sonia has arrived for this spoooooky post! 🎃
Halloween is truly my favorite time of the year and to celebrate that, I have the pleasure of showcasing some very... original items for the Paramaker and Build Mode!
They are guaranteed to leave an unforgettable impression with their unique design or the sense of terror that emanates from them.
<...
2024-10-25 13:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi! It’s Alex 👋
As previously mentioned, the time has come for the game designers and programmers on the team to switch back to working on the live mode, after having brought the build mode to a near complete state! Today’s post will update you on our current tasks regarding simulating the lives of our Parafolks. As usual, this post is for Patrons only so please don’t share it! 🔐
2024-10-18 14:19:34 +0000 UTC
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Hi, it’s Alex!
Over the past 2 months, I’ve been spending many hours a week playing Paralives, uhhh, I mean testing the build mode thoroughly to make sure the experience is smooth. While doing so, I made the classic life simulation game mistake I’ve been making since I was 12 years old: deciding to build something that is just too big and that I’ll never be done furnishing and decorating! Even though it could have been more complete and polished, I...
2024-10-11 13:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! It’s Andrei, ready to talk music 🎶 As the team gets ready to start working on the Live mode and as I finish all the Build mode sounds, I had some extra time to make more music again! In the last post I showed (which you can check here), we saw some of the creation process of the sound effects for the Build mode. And since I’m feeling audacious, I’m going to do the same thing in this post ...
2024-10-04 14:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey there! Chloe here today to showcase some exciting stuff for our Build Mode. I’ve been working hard creating various items to decorate and clutter your houses so you can bring your builds to life and better represent your Paras through their space. I’ll be showcasing a full house build today, focusing on the game’s new clutter and decor items – we will also discuss disabilities in the game. Today’s post is a big one!
A Word on Disabilities in the Game
Ma...
2024-09-27 14:05:01 +0000 UTC
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