Hey there!
I hope you're doing well and that you had a nice week. Today, I wanted to show you some of the floor plans I made in Paralives.
Floor Plans Showcase
Placing walls in this game is very flexible. You are not limited to a grid so you can easily build walls of any lengths and at any angle. A curved wall tool is also in the game allowing you to create all kinds of shapes for your buildings. All that might seem complex to use but don't worry,...
2021-03-26 21:32:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello there!
As some of you may already know, our programmer Anna shared a glimpse of her day-to-day work on her Twitter account last week. In her thread called ✨A week with a Paralives dev!✨, she revealed some of the tasks and challenges she encounters on a daily basis implementing a solid animation system for Paralives.
Today, we are sharing with you the transcripts of her t...
2021-03-25 14:48:57 +0000 UTC
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Community Brainstorming Recap: Aging (For Patrons only. Please don't share)
Hey everyone, Christine here for a little recap of our latest community brainstorming session, which was about aging!
Now, this past month definitely flew by! Tons of interesting ideas were suggested and it’s always really heartwarming to see everyone coming together around a same topic. As a team, we usually have a pretty good general idea of
what the community w...
2021-03-19 18:23:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey there!
This is a public Patreon post to share a brand new video about the picture frame customization features in Paralives! It's a public video so feel free to share it. We have shown you an early preview of these features in a recent Patreon post for Patrons only. Jérémie made some improvements since then including the option to have no frame at all (for posters) and the option to add...
2021-03-16 17:19:35 +0000 UTC
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Hi there!
Anna here. As you may already now, I am working together with Alice on the roots of our animation system. It's a very big task for a lifesim game like Paralives as it requires a lot of animations. Usually, we like to do development diaries to show you the work we've been doing in the background after a video, explaining more technical insights of what we've been up to. I did one about the 2021-03-12 19:34:39 +0000 UTC
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Hi there,
I hope you're doing well. We have a few updates regarding the development of the game for you today!
New Team Member
This week, we were happy to welcome a new team member, Étienne! He will be with us for 10 weeks as part of an internship. Here's what he had to say to introduce himself.
Hello people!
I'm Étienne and I ...
2021-03-05 14:55:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey there, I hope you're doing well! Everything's good on our side. Today, we wanted to share a first look at one of the features that Jérémie recently added to the game.
Picture Frame Customization (For Patrons only. Please don't share)
In Paralives, many objects that you can place in your house can be customized. In the past, we've shown how you can change the 2021-02-26 19:25:10 +0000 UTC
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Hello!
New Monthly Community Brainstorming: Aging (For Patrons only, please don't share for a few days)
The last monthly community brainstorming about relationships went really well and it was super helpful for us to read all your ideas and get your perspective on many subjects! We're excited to start this new community brainstorming about aging, life stages and growing up! As you know, we mostly worked on adults until n...
2021-02-19 15:06:54 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
It's Friday and we're back for another Patreon post! Here's an overview of what we are working on at the moment :
- Improving the build mode, adding more user-friendly features and fixing bugs
- Adding body and face shape customization from the improved adult model
- Testing more character and clothes textures
- Designing and implementing the animation system and its mod support
- More animations
- Brainstorming and designing different as...
2021-02-12 21:17:13 +0000 UTC
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All screenshots and gifs in this post are done in a test scene with temporary textures, without our fancy lighting and other special effects.
Hello again! Jérémie here to talk a bit about build mode features and functionalities. This is something I’ve been working on in the past weeks and I wanted to keep you updated on some of the functions we have at this point in the game! This post is for Patrons only so please don't share.
You might have ...
2021-02-05 18:42:46 +0000 UTC
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Hi there,
I hope you are doing well!
Monthly Community Brainstorms
Thanks so much for all your ideas in last week's Patreon post regarding relationships in Paralives! Reading people's ideas on Patreon was so interesting that we decided to make it a monthly event. From now on, we'll come up with a different brainstorming theme each month. It will be introduced ...
2021-01-29 22:36:56 +0000 UTC
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Team day-to-day (For Patrons only. Please don't share)
I thought it would be interesting to give you an overview of what our work days look like inside the team. Because of the pandemic, we work from home, but the plan is to get an office when everything settles down. Until then, we sadly cannot meet in person. However, we're connected together through our team chat app. That's where we share our progress with other teammates, give feedba...
2021-01-22 17:46:24 +0000 UTC
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Hello,
I hope you had a nice week. The weekend is here along with a new Patreon post!
We won an award!
Woahhh! Thanks so much to everyone who voted last week! We won the most anticipated Canadian game award! That's crazy! We feel deeply honored to have e...
2021-01-15 20:01:40 +0000 UTC
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Hi there,
We're back to our regular posting schedule with our first post of 2021. I'm taking this opportunity to wish you an happy new year again and I hope it will be a great one for you! We took some time off for the holidays and we're back to work with some exciting stuff going on.
We need your help
Canadian Game Devs nominated Paralives for an award, the most antici...
2021-01-08 15:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello 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, 20...
2020-12-18 18:45:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
This is a public post to show you our brand new video about Maggie and her holiday outfits. The post is public so feel free to share! There will be another private post for Patrons only tomorrow.
Recently, we have improved Paralives’ clothing system to make it as customizable as possible while keeping it easy to use. Mix and match items to reveal your unique taste, select a design that best suits your personality and choose one of the premade swatches or a specif...
2020-12-17 18:26:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey there,
Hope you're doing well and that you had a nice week!
Disability Survey Summary by Anna (For Patrons only. Please don't share)
Image source: People vector created by stories - www.freepik.com
Back in September, we shared
2020-12-11 17:09:46 +0000 UTC
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Hey there!
This week, we wanted to give your a first look at cheats in Paralives.
Cheat Command Window (For Patrons only. Please don't share)
We think that cheats are very important in a sandbox life simulation game. Of course, many people like to play by the rules, earn their money fair and square and play the game like it was meant to be played. But a lot of players also like to get curious and try a few cheats here and there. If you ar...
2020-12-04 15:42:37 +0000 UTC
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Hello there!
I hope everyone who celebrated Thanksgiving had a great time (for us Canadians it was back in October)! I'd like to take this opportunity, on behalf of the whole Paralives team, to thank you for your generous support and for believing in the project. We're incredibly grateful and we couldn't ask for a better community. Thank you!
New Postcard
We're preparing to send a new postcard signed by the team in December. Léa is cur...
2020-11-27 14:53:40 +0000 UTC
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Hi there!
It's Friday so that means the weekend is here. But most importantly, it's time for another Paralives update! This week, we wanted to share some improvements we made recently to the art style of the game.
Developing by iteration
Like most games being made, we are improving Paralives by iteration. That means we often try to have a first version to start with and then later we spend time to improve that version for a second iteration. This way, w...
2020-11-20 21:08:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey there,
I hope you're having a good Friday and that you have some nice and relaxing things planned for the weekend! This week, we wanted to update you about the genetics system and clothing system in Paralives.
Genetics System Update (For Patrons only. Please don't share)
Anna worked hard on the genetics logic recently and this week, we were able to create the user interface to test the genetics features related to creating a new Para: a c...
2020-11-13 16:14:14 +0000 UTC
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Hello,
This week, we wanted to update you about our progress, what we're working and what's to come!
New Website Page: Development Progress (For Patrons only. Please don't share)
We created a new page on our website and it's about the history of the development of Paralives and its progress. It's still under construction but Patrons can access it right now until we make it public in the near future. The goal of this page is to make it easi...
2020-11-06 19:41:21 +0000 UTC
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Hi there! I hope you had a nice week and that you are in the mood for some Halloween stuff!
Pumpkin Customization (For Patrons only, please don't share)
In Paralives, some items have variants that you can choose from. You may remember that feature from a video we made a while back where you could choose different handles for the kitchen cupboards. For Halloween, we used that fea...
2020-10-30 13:31:46 +0000 UTC
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Hi guys, it’s Léa!
This week we have a very special update: I'm here to introduce you to the improved and corrected 3D model that we use to generate our Parafolks! This brand new body is the base on which we are going to build every piece of clothes and different body shapes.
The first version of the body had flaws which lead to technical difficulties for our animator Alice and we wanted to create a body that we could bend, twist, scale easily without having we...
2020-10-23 15:14:32 +0000 UTC
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Hey there!
How are you doing today? On our side, we made some great progress this week on stuff related to the Paramaker, the clothing system and characters. Looking forward to sharing more about that!
We recruited a new 3D Artist
Sonia just joined us on the team and she'll be here full time for an internship until the end of the year! Here's a little something that she wrote:
Hello everyone, I'm Sonia and I'll be joining the Paralives...
2020-10-16 19:43:37 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! I hope you had a nice week!
House Poll (For Patrons only. Please don't share)
Last week, we asked you to vote for the style of the house that we will build from scratch in a video to be released in the coming months. The winner is Canadian Chalet. Really excited about that and we already have a lot of ideas to create somethin...
2020-10-09 18:20:47 +0000 UTC
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Hi, hope you're doing well!
Please keep this poll and the content of this post secret for now :)
In the near future, we'd like to record a video of us building a house in Paralives. It will be a longer than usual video where we will build, furnish and decorate a house from scratch and we're really excited about it!
So we'd like you to help us decide the style of the house that we will build in that video. Keep in mind that we won't buil...
2020-10-02 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
We prepared a new video and it's about Sebastian's summer! Check the above video or click this Youtube link. Don't hesitate to share it, it's public!
Some of the features we are adding:
- In Paralives, there will be a zipline item that you can place between a point A and a point B. Your Para can then use it for transportation or just for fun.
2020-09-24 17:02:35 +0000 UTC
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Hi there,
Hope you're doing well. We have some cool stuff going on this week so let's get started!
Diversity survey: disabilities, illnesses, impairments and neurodiversity
Today, we’re excited to share with all of you our new community survey regarding disabilities, illnesses, impairments and neurodiversity...
2020-09-18 16:20:16 +0000 UTC
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Hello!
This week, we've been working on improvements and new features but we don't have new stuff to show just yet. Instead, I thought it would be cool to share some old concepts from the very beginning of the project. At that time, the characters were simple and less detailed. Please don't share the content of this post outside of Patreon :)
Since I was the o...
2020-09-04 20:26:30 +0000 UTC
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