Skin Tones Poll Results and First Look (Patreon)

Hey there,

A few weeks ago, in a Patreon post, we asked you to vote on what would be your preferred way of selecting the skin color for your Parafolks. We’ve made some progress so today’s post is all about that! This post is for Patrons only so please don’t share it, thank you!

As a reminder, here are the three options that we suggested:

• A: Complete premade list of a wide variety of skin tones for every ethnicity
• B: Special color wheel made for skin colors
• C: Full color wheel with ALL the colors

And here are the results of the poll:

As you can see, a lot of people are liking the idea of a color wheel custom made for the skin. However, in the comment section of the post, many suggested that ideally, all three options would be in the game because they serve a different purpose. Well, good news! After some testing and tweaking, we were able to make all three of these work in the game and we have a first version of it to show you today!

A: Complete premade list of a wide variety of skin tones for every ethnicity

For many players, the easiest and fastest way to select a skin tone will be by clicking one of the premades that we will have created for you. Simply click a color to preview it on your Para and quickly try many of them to make your decision.

For now, we only made three premades colors but a lot more will come. We aim to research the right colors and review them thoroughly to make sure almost everyone can find their own skin color in these premades.

The current three skin tones applied to a Para. Please say hi to our model who will assist us showcasing the skin color in this post!

B: Special color wheel made for skin colors

If you were not able to find the exact skin color you want in the many offered premades that we will have, you will be able to create a new swatch by pressing the “+” button. This will bring you to the special color wheel made for the skin color. First, select a skin tone at the top and then adjust the saturation and lightness. This should let you be extremely precise! Then, hit OK to save the color in the list of premades to be able to use it later for any of your Paras.

Left: the skin color wheel. Middle: the skin tone from the second premade color in the previous image. Right: this skin tone but tweaked using the skin color wheel.

You might notice that the initial concept sketch for this special color wheel was round. We ended up switching to a rectangular design because we found it easier to use. The look and design of this interface will still get improvements though.

C: Full color wheel with ALL the colors

Finally, if you want no limit at all for selecting a skin color, you will always be able to switch to the full color wheel with the press of a button (see button in the bottom left corner in the image below). Great for alien or supernatural storytelling!

That’s it for today. Please note that the interface and the current skin tones are not final and will still be worked on a lot. Don’t hesitate to tell us in the comments below if you have any questions or suggestions!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Alex