New Live Mode Features + Funny Bugs + Get a Postcard Signed by the Team!

Would love to see a sickness system!

"Oh yeah... it's all coming together" - Kronk, Junior Chipmunk

May I ask approximately when the postcards are sent out? The only reason I'm asking is so I can get an idea of ​​when the postcard arrive. By the way, greetings from Germany 🤗❤️

The baby doing pushups under the high chair had laughing a little to much, all in all the whole team has done me proud

For me it's the musical chair thing. Having characters speaking to eachother and constantly standing up to do 1 interaction, then sitting down in different spot, then up again, then down, etc. 😵‍💫

Hello! Love the updates and thank you all for all your hard work. I am beyond excited! I did want to mention, I've been a hero tier for a while and I didn't receive the June 2024 postcard, was I supposed to sign up for it somewhere?

i can't wait to tell my own story with this game. Good luck on polishing Live Mode.

Oh no I changed to Hero but it's one day too late for the Postcard 😭

I was subbed with Hero status for a bit but I’ve never gotten a postcard. Do you have to sub as Hero for more than a month?

It's funny because we see a lot of awesome stuff in previous posts and then except some of the features like the social situations in rooms to already being implemented, but no. Really makes you think about how every features are related to eachother, either way, I love seeing it being worked on and I'm veeeery thankful for the transparency of paralives. We truly don't deserve y'all 😭😭

Always a great job!

if i up my pledge now for the postcard, won’t i just get charged again on the 1st? just asking for clarity!

If I'm in Canada do I need to change my address to my physical address instead of the PO Box for the postcard, due to the Canada post strike?

This brings back memories of The Sims 1, when they would yell "boo" if Sims attempting to play guitar or piano had no musical skills.

I hope that we won't have Paras talking to each other while one has their back turned to them, this happens all the time in The Sims 4, which is so annoying and unrealistic. I mean even if they are standing in the same room, instead of turning around to talk to another Sim, they stay facing away from them and talking to them instead. Sure sometimes they turn their heads back a bit like they are trying to look at them, but they won't just turn their whole body around. So i hope that will be prevented from happening in Paralives.

„A joyful character could have a trait that propagates joy to nearby Parafolks“ That’s so cute! And great work, Richard! That’s a difficult and important task. But from what we can see, the system creating the zones is really good at it ^^

Cool

I would like to see other/more illnesses and injuries. For example, a broken leg or arm, a gastrointestinal illness. Dizziness, nausea, headaches and stomach aches etc and please also abdominal pain, as well as a menstrual cycle with tampons, period underwear, cups and pads, as well as contraceptives for more realism.

Seeing them talking to their friends through the closed door... I don't know if you're planning to allow for lockable doors any time, but if so I wondered whether a door could remain open permanently if it's unlocked, and closed if restricted access. I remember the effort of having to click on doors in The Sims to check if I remembered to set the locking menu. So that you don't get paras walking through open door flaps, it could open back flat against the wall or just disappear until closed. Anyway just thought it might be nice not to have the doors slam shut every time a para goes into a room.

Hi, Richard! Can you set the reaction radius too? I'm asking thinking about mods.

Yawning would be a great one, when a para yawns it makes others yawn. Burning your mouth on drink could make other paras around you blow on theirs to make sure it's not too hot. A para seeing someone eating ice cream on a hot day might make them want one. Fancy/famous paras drawing attention would be cool. Some PDA averse paras might get upset seeing people kiss. Nervous paras might be afraid by Halloween costumes. That system will probably open up a lot of dynamic reactions. Looking forward to getting into modding myself eventually.

Amazing post!! Thank you Richard ! Love you guys ✨👏🏻

It is such fun to see the bugs! 🤭 I really like the toddler push up bug and as someone already mentioned, I would also love it as an autonomous action for toddlers. Toddlers are always trying to imitate their parents or sibs IRL, and it is always endearing to watch a toddler try to clumsily exercise along side them. This is also true of older kids following by example not so clumsily, because it is part of their learning and growing. And another thing I witness on a daily basis is the spontaneity toddlers and kids have when watching TV or hearing a song, and they really don't care who is watching! Lol. This is such great progress the Devs are making in Paralives and in being so faithful in sharing with us! I know the best is yet to come. Thank you, Devs!! ✨️

never thought a para toddler would remind me I need to hit the gym 😭

Amazing as always! I have a question relative to this (tho it may haven't being planned so far or aren't suppose to exist in this game, and that's okay), but couldn't we got some system similar to "moodlets"? It's that some awesome details like paras reacting to the world around them might pass unnoticed for a player wich household have so many parafolks to take care, and getting informed about the latest situations occurring with one of them sounds pretty cool to understand what they're feeling at the moment. Also, it can be an inventive way to overcome the lack of animations for specific reactions like "the food is burnt and don't taste good", "the food is okay", "the food spoiled and make them sick", "this is their favorite meal and they're excited to eat". I know the wants system kind of works the same way, and that's already impressive, however it's interesting to get to know their feedback after fulfilling their desires

Hi Paradevs ! Team work makes the game work, this week, as a lot of features seem to be team efforts \o/ "This Para gains the Disgusted emotion when getting near a dirty toilet. Other examples of what this system could allow:" ...I went through this list going : "Yes. YES. YEEESSSS !!! OH YEAH THAT'S THE SPOT !". I remember asking a question a few months ago about Paras reacting to music and that's really great to see how the system could be used for that, among other things. Those are really the mechanisms that make a life simulation feel alive : when characters react to their environment without waiting for their cue from the player. Life simulation is really all about making us believe that a bunch of pixels has an inner life, at the end of the day ! If we don't believe it, we have very little interest in what happens to them, and they remain a bunch of pixels to us. The cold thing certainly is interesting too, even though as I write this I notice a comment where Alex says it's not confirmed. Well, what can we do to get it confirmed then ? XD A bit of a tangent, but how are emotions displayed ? The same way as wishes/wants in the left-hand column ? Also quick question regarding the door : if someone outside the group wanted to walk through that door, how would pathing deal with it ? "but I can spill a little detail about it… it was created by one of the artists on our team" Wait a minute... <_<

Colds would be good. Something a bit different/harsher would also be nice. Like parapox for instance (like chicken pox but not).

I love the reaction to the dirty toilet! Maybe if a Para is a slob or even not so bothered about that stuff there could be a unique reaction. Love the stuff you're working on with reactions and emotions in general. The idea of a happy/joyful para making others around them happy makes me smile. I'm also excited to see the cheating reactions. Would love if family/friends could also react.

You should add baby pushups into the game officially as some quirky reward for the baby eating special broccoli (special as if the broccoli is homegrown in the highest quality level coming from the gardening system)!

Okay but the toddler doing pushups is pretty funny

Those baby bugs are HILARIOUS!!! xD

For the autonomous reactions for cheating in particular, will there be some kind of observation system? For instance, if a para sees their best friend's partner cheating on them can they then go back and tell their best friend what they saw later on?

a joyful para spreading joy is such a cute detail, i love that idea! i'm curious, will paras be able to use dirty objects like toilets (and just feel disgusted for example) or do they have to be cleaned first? of course if something is broken it's unusable but if a para really needs to use the bathroom it might be a necessary sacrifice

I love that paras react to their environment autonomously, it's small things like that, that make the game feel so alive! You guys are doing amazing!! 🤗

Ahhh I love the cold features and the social stuff added!

These live mode bugs look CUTE! 🥰 so adorable. I Like the social situations as well. Could make compact living for a large household a good challenge. Time to add another postcard to my collection!