What We're Going To Do (Patreon)

Hello!

How are you doing today? Everything’s good on our side. We’re working on a lot of exciting things that we’re looking forward to sharing with you. Meanwhile, this week, I thought I could give you an update on the next steps in the development of this “Paralives” game. This post is for Patrons only so don’t share it. Thank you!

The Next Two Months: Paramaker Progress

We’ve made good progress on the build mode and we showcased our tools back in June in this 11 minutes long house building video. We still have work to do on the build mode like full support for basements, roof tools and custom stairs. However, we will be resuming the work on that in a little while. Starting now and for the next two months, we will be focusing on the Paramaker and all the character customization tools. This will allow us to create and showcase more Parafolks. Here’s an overview of what we will be doing:

The Following Months: Live Mode Basics

After our boost on the Paramaker, we will seriously attack the live mode to get a first playable version where we’ll be able to have our Parafolks do various actions around the house. We will start by working on the following core features needed for that :

After these “boosts” on the Paramaker and the first version of the live mode, there will be more work done on every part of the game to add more features to the live mode, build mode and Paramaker.

Side note: we are 4 programmers on the team and we used to work on different things : Jérémie and Étienne on the build mode, Anna on the live mode basics and animation systems and me (Alex) on the Paramaker and mod tools. We’re changing this to instead work on one part of the game together at the same time. It will be the Paramaker for the next two months and then it will be the live mode basics. This way, we’re aiming to make faster progress on a specific part of the game instead of slower progress on multiple parts of the game at once. We’ll also be unblocking other team members like Léa, Sonia and Alice who need additional features to be able to create more clothes, accessories, hairstyles, animations, etc.

Don’t forget to take a look at the Development page of our website for more details about what we’ve been up to in the past few months. What’s to come is really exciting and we’ll be able to share the progress with you guys in these weekly private Patreon posts and in some public videos as well.

Thank you!

Alex