❄️🎄 Happy Holidays! + Q&A Video + Paralives Quiz + Recent Improvements to the Live Mode

It'd be nice if there was an option to supress the tutorials once you've played the game enough in the settings !

I'll live in a box for all I care I JUST WANNA PLAYYY!!!! Lol

Also! Happy new year, sorry I am just now seeing this and leaving late comments. RE: The paras going to work to places where you may see worker NPCs working. I don't mind them being rabbit holes, though I think it would be pretty cool if our working paras were basically added to the pool of possible "NPC" workers during their work hours. By which I mean, we might still see them at work. Maybe?

If we can already do supernatural colors with the skintones and eye colors, it would only be natural to add in pointy ears to go with it! Please - more than half my characters have them. I'd also really love official supernatural gameplay at some point, but during early access I'll be happy with a mod covering that. You have more important things to deal with first.

I was thinking if you have a few name ideas, but can't choose, maybe have a poll here, and let us help you to choose. It would be fun to be a part of choosing the name of the first town, like with Paramaker. Also Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to all!

''🏪 Improved Townie autonomy to make them visit shops and public lots more often so that these don’t feel empty and also, make Townies do a bit more interactions autonomously to feel lively.'' I REALLY hope that they will be in the shops before we go in. I kinda hate it in TS4 that when I go somewhere half of the world randomly teleports with me ;-;

Oh wow different walks styles based on the vibe!!!! I know it's like a tiny detail but I am just very happy that this is something that is just naturally integrated because I would usually not use it as a feature, but integrated like that is very fun and I love it. Gonna watch the video now hehe I am very excited y'all don't even know

Thanks for reuploading the stream here and thanks for taking the time to answer so many questions 😁❤️

i would love it if there was “parafolk lore” about the clown 🤡 would be so cool if there was a circus someday

i do have a question. i want to play with the para that you all made for me, will all our parafolks possibly be uploaded somewhere so we can play as them? or will that not be possible? (i understand if its not)

Thanks for the Q&A! Personally, I don’t need jobs to not be rabbit holes; I have plenty of simulator games that fill that for me. I’d much rather we get more gameplay outside of that. Like, family gameplay and stuff to do in the towns. I would be behind an Open for Business type DLC in the future with a couple of interactive jobs, though. I wouldn’t want all jobs to be interactive because I wouldn’t want to play it, lol.

Thank you for your work Paralives team! Happy holidays, I hope you got restful and joyful moments to recharge your batteries and to nourish your souls and hearts! 🧡✨🕯️🌟❄️ 🎄

i hope the walking to work mechanic is fixed as soon as possible. i assume if it takes 3 hours to walk there, that would mean the para wouldn’t return home until 3 hours after work. personally id almost prefer them to disappear to save time until cars are introduced

I'm so happy, the ceiling has the options to cast shadows, thanks, thanks this is a Christmas present for me Hahahah Great Job!

I'm so late! how sad D: Firstly i love all the slides! - I'm usually on the side of "Interactive jobs tend to be boring" but i think it could be alot of fun if you did some pop-ups sorta like the Together cards system where you could get some perks for your job depending on your answer and success, if you decide to add gameplay to jobs - PLSSS don't call tomatoes and pumpkins "Vegetables" in game, it's a huge pet peeve of mine, lol (I'm saying this bc when gardening was introduced they were referred to as vegetables) - I have many ideas for supernatural elements in Paralives but the main one is: I would LOVE if Paralives took a folklore approach! with monsters and mysteries(real or not) that you could encounter like Wendigo, Kelpie, Sprites etc. it could add alot of town lore\interactions, jobs, quests (PS: I've chosen those 3 as examples bc Wendigo are the scary monsters you want to avoid. Kelpie can go either way, there's a risk, they're more interactive. And Sprites are the sweet & Maybe helpful ones. Roughly, yunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, that's just how i decided, this isn't necessarily a direct request to add them to the game) And 9 out of 10! i couldn't remember which mustache vid came out first😅

Shoutout to the one dev wearing a mask!!

Thanks for being so open and feedback-seeking guys!

For those of us new to the team, could you guys introduce yourselves and what you do going forward lol

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, PARATEAM!! ❤️❤️

Happy holidays to the team!

I can see that y'all are adding walk-styles that are based on vibes and I think that's really great!! It will add so much variety with the npcs walking around the town.I want to suggest that you not make the walking styles too cartoony or too funny because that will feel like trying to hard and may end up not working in your favor. The stream was very nice and I can't wait for another one! I hope it has something to do with the Paramaker genetics and family Paras because I do love building a family and lore while creating characters.

Wow, I haven't even finished checking out the Steam stuff yet, but congrats and happy holidays to the team! I'm so stoked with how this life sim keeps getting better. The build mode and love mode are two things I'm super excited to try out. Thanks for fixing things like "Ceilings Cast Shadows" – that was kinda bugging me... Now I'm totally happy again!

1) Lovely to see someone still masking! 2) Is one of you wearing a Christmas tree hat? I've never seen that before!!

thank you for the post! sounds like you guys are making swift and smooth progress! may I ask if we'll be getting the yearly recap this year? i'd understand if not enough new objects/assets were made to make one

Happy Holidays team.

these are great improvements! Have great holidays! <3

i got 9/10 ✨ (okay, 8/10 if you count me getting the clown question wrong, but i say if y'all get free choice on clown addition decisions, i get to feel Please No about it lmao)

I’m so excited about the different walk styles!! Thank you for all your hard work and I hope you all have a great holiday break! ❤️

Hi Alex ! Thanks for this ! I missed the Q&A but hope that next year I'll make it to at least one Patreon stream XD Thanks for the new photo, too ! It's so cool to compare back to when the team was much smaller :) The list of things the team has already worked on is impressive in so little time. These improvements feel like a big deal for just a few extra weeks of work, and it makes me look forward to what kind of polish will be accomplished in the 5 next months if you are able to more or less keep up with that pace. Some of these things of course are a constant WIP and will never stop being improved upon, but it's really making me optimistic about the Early Access release. "integrating the Parli voices of all 4 actors for all our animations." That's an odd phrasing. In the October 24th Dev Chat (RIP), Andrei said there would be 4 voices... just for the Adult stage. Not 4 voices total ; there were supposed to be 3 for other lifestages (Baby, Toddler and Child). Is that no longer planned ? Or has it been postponed to 2026 to make the best of the delay ? In any case, I wish you all happy holidays. Please rest well and take care of yourselves ; it's been quite an eventful year, and you Paradevs all deserve some softness with what's ahead ! And happy holidays to Paratreon members too !

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So much great new informations 😍 Thank you so much for your hard work. I wish you all a wonderful and relaxing holiday season and a happy new year ❤️🎁🎄❄️ You've done a fantastic job again this year; you can be very proud of yourselves❣️ Will there be a year-in-review this year as well?

Happy holidays! Lovely team! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

Hello beautiful paralives people! Happy holidays and see you next year ^_^

9/10, happy holidays ♡

Happy holidays dear Paralives team! You bring such joy to our lives already and the game isn't even out yet, thank you for all your hard work and the love you put into this community and into making this quirky, beautiful and original life sim.

Merry Christmas Paralives Team!! Thanks for all you do in your journey towards making this dream come true. Much love & see you next year! 🎄❄️☃️💞🌇

Three things... what on earth is that hat?!?!?!? Secondly... i got two questions wrong. moustache man wasn't in the censoring video first (i am ashamed) and please no was not the right answer to the clown question. Thirdly and most importantly, hope you guys have an amazing christmas and new year.

Nice I do think Paras should head to work an hour before the job starts just so they somewhat make it on time

I could not attend the discord because of busy schedule but thanks for giving us that opportunity. Will there such cool events in the future? You guys should do more of these! Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Happy holidays devs!! Hope you have a wonderful deserved best Christmas! 🥰 🎄 Thankyou for bringing us more amazing content !!