Sneak Peek at the New Sliders & Character Editing in Paralives (Patreon)

Hey everyone!

We're sharing a public Patreon post today to showcase one of the new tools we recently added to the Paramaker.

With this new feature, you can use our handy diagrams to quickly customize the shape, size and rotation of different parts of your Para. You can edit a wide variety of sliders for important body and facial features and tweak the smallest little details. For those who like to fine tune, the sliders are also displayed in a more traditional fashion below the diagram where you can enter exact numbers and even copy-paste them between Parafolks.

You may be wondering whether or not the game still has the option to push and pull the characters directly to edit their body. Unfortunately, the answer is no. We decided to remove that feature because we learned that it is protected by a patent. This is entirely our fault for not researching the existing patents before starting the development of the Paramaker and we would like to apologize for that. We believe that software property rights are important and must be respected.

With that said, we still wanted to find an alternative that would be easy to use and understand. A classic list of sliders felt a little bland and overwhelming on screen due to their number. After many iterations, we decided to go with this diagram approach and we are really pleased with the result. We believe it's intuitive and fun to play with! This new slider interface is now pretty solid and will allow everyone to create all kinds of Parafolks quickly and easily. We’re looking forward to putting it in your hands and seeing what you will create!

Cheers,

Alex