Generations Brainstorming Recap + New Theme + Poll (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

This is Sandrine here to share with you all the summary of the latest community brainstorming session as well as the new theme for the month of February. Here we go!

Generations Brainstorming Recap (For Patrons Only! Please don’t share)

Thank you all for participating in the Generations brainstorming session, we gathered your ideas from the comment section as well as from Discord and Reddit. Here’s a general summary of the ideas that stood out to us. Please keep in mind that if you don’t see your idea there, it doesn’t necessarily mean we won’t be taking it into account when working on this aspect of the game. In the same way, listing the ideas below doesn’t guarantee that we will add it to the game either since we will be focusing on the most important features first in order to be able to release the game. More interactions and features will be added overtime after launch.

• 🌳 Establish extended family relationships when creating a new Parafolk and setting a premade Parafolk as their relative.
• 👥 Being able to set a child, sibling, aunt or uncle as biological, adoptive or honorary.
• 🎚️ Manually set the length of a life or stage of life.
• 👁️ Dominant and recessive genes for physical traits. Some traits cloud skip a generation or more.
• 💇‍♀️ Set natural hair color under dyed hair so that babies do not inherit the hair dye color.
• 🌟 Family reputation
• 🏠 Multigenerational households and lots
• 💰 Give or loan money to someone in your close or extended family.
• 👨‍👦 Children would tend to imitate adults from the same household. For example, if an adult Parafolk likes to work out, a child could start doing it on their own when not controlled.
• 👶 When a baby is born, have grandparents, aunts, uncles or close friends come to help out the new parents in the house.
• 🌜 Children could spend a day or weekend with their grandparents, aunt/uncle or other parents.
• 🎓 Older generations would be able to teach younger ones about the family tree, show the photo album, share stories from their younger years, teach them crafts, etc.
• 🤝 Extended family reunions
• 💍 Be able to propose with the grandparents’ or great-grandparents’ wedding rings.
• 🏕️ Have traditions such as a yearly vacation spot, eat a certain meal on a specific day of the week, etc.
• 🩺 Pass down a preference or aptitude for an activity or skill that could create opportunities for a family business or career.
• 🍪 Family recipes that could be passed down to younger generations.
• 👗 Items that could be passed down: Blanket, plush toy, family tree scrapbook, photo album, wedding dress, artwork, jewellry, etc.

Here’s a word cloud to see what has been mentioned the most in the Patreon comment section of the previous brainstorming session:

Next Monthly Brainstorming: Emotions & Mood  (For Patrons only! Please don’t share)

Get overjoyed or teary-eyed with this month’s brainstorming session topic: Emotions & Mood! To get started, you can ask yourselves the following questions:

• 😱 What emotions would you like to see in-game?
• 🕑 How long should moods and emotions last?
• 📺 What types of action or interactions could affect your mood? How?
• 😡 Should moods and emotions be influenced by the current life stage of the Parafolk? If yes, how?
• 🏫 How do you want your mood or emotions to affect your daily activities (work, school, etc.)?
• 👫 How could the mood of a Parafolk influence or affect others around them?

We’d love to read all your ideas in the comment section of this post. It is very inspiring! As usual, we will open this brainstorming session to the public next week on Discord in the #emotions-and-mood channel and on Reddit.

Happy brainstorming!

Poll: Emotions & Mood (For Patrons only! Please don’t share)

Now that the new topic has been revealed, I wanted to ask you a question: should the mood of your Para impact which interactions are possible? For instance, you would not be able to make a very sad Para clean the dishes or ask them to tell a joke to another Para until they feel better. The upside is that it would be more realistic and the downside might be that it gives less control to the players because some interactions would not always be possible.

You can answer in the poll below. If you can think of something in between that is not in the options, don’t hesitate to share it in the comments.

Have a good day everyone!

Sandrine