New Team Members! + What You Can Expect From Paralives This Year
Happy New Year!
The whole Paralives team wishes you and your family the very best for 2023! We have exciting game development updates that we will be sharing with you every Friday here on Patreon so I’m sure it’s gonna be a great year for Paralives and that’s starting today with good news!
New Team Members: Richard and Alejandro
We’re pretty excited to announce two new team members on the Paralives team this week. Welcome Richard and Alejandro! Here’s what they had to say to introduce themselves:
💬 “Hello Patrons of Paralives, I’m Richard. I have been coding and designing games for the last 9 years. I love programming and cooking. I aim to use at least one of those passions for this great project. I’m also a big fan of cozy games like The Sims, Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon.”
💬 “Hello everyone! I am Alejandro and words cannot emphasize how excited I am to join the Paralives team as an Intern Programmer and Game Designer. In simple words, I am a gamer. I grew up playing games from Final Fantasy on the NES to The Sims on the original Xbox. When my brother, Andrei, joined the project, I was so excited for him and now that I can join too and contribute to this amazing community, it’s just an awesome feeling. I hope I can share my passion for the project and for the community.”
We’re now 11 people on the team. Richard and Alejandro will be joining Anna, Jérémie and myself (Alex) on the programming and game design team. Together, we will be working on creating all the features that are still to be developed before we can release a first enjoyable version of the game in Early Access.
What You Can Expect From Paralives This Year
🌱 Exciting live mode feature showcases: Last year, we worked on the foundations of the live mode, mainly the interaction and animation systems. This year, you will see us share updates about a wider range of live mode features like skills, needs, relationships, careers and more.
👕 More content for the Paramaker: Now that our Paramaker is almost feature-complete, Sonia and Léa will be focusing on creating a lot of new clothing items, hair styles, body presets, etc. Looking forward to showing all these!
🪑 New furniture, objects and house showcases: Paralives build mode is in good shape but is still missing a lot of furniture and objects to make sure that players will have a wide variety of options when furnishing and decorating their house. Chloé and Léa will be sharing with you many build mode objects that they will be working on.
💃 Character interactions and animations previews: Alice will be creating all kinds of animations that we will be sharing with you: interactions between two Parafolks, hobbies, cooking, cleaning, emotions, needs, death(!) and more.
🎶 Music and audio previews: Last year, Andrei worked on establishing the musical and audio direction for Paralives. This year, he will be focusing on creating many tracks and sound effects for the different parts of the game.
💡 Behind the scenes: Development diaries to explain our creative process and funny bugs are on the menu.
As always, you will be able to track our progress on our detailed Paralives development roadmap here. Or just stay tuned and we will tell you all about the most recent additions to the game here on Patreon!
Bonus: Picture from our Holidays Office Party
Top row: Chloé, Léa, Andrei and Jérémie. Bottom row: Alice, Alex, Anna and Étienne. Not pictured: Sonia, Gabrielle, Richard and Alejandro.
Have a great weekend!
Alex
Comments (49)
we're getting apartments in the base game??!!!
This year is definitely going to be an exciting year! You all have come such a long way and your hard work shows! I am excited to see what you will have cooked up for us
Not all hero's wear capes :)) I'm so excited for what's to come!!
I'm still so excited about Paralives. I really really hope we can get our hands on it this year. :)
This year is a huge stretch we should see it in a couple years. :)
Hi, I just joined the Patreon. Can't wait to see more!
Welcome Brandon and thank you for your support! 😊
Welcome and thank you for all your hard work so far! I can't wait to see what 2023 brings for Paralives. 🥰
Thank you for your nice words, Jade! We're super excited for 2023 😊
This totally aside the point of the post but can I just say it makes me so happy as a disabled person to see you guys still wearing your masks when together and doing activities 🥺 I think perhaps it's just more common in Canada than here in the US, but nonetheless me and every other immune compromised person greatly appreciate the responsibility.
Welcome to the team Alejandro and Richard. I’m looking forward to see the development and details to you will show this year. 🥰
Welcome to the team and happy new year! 🥳🥳
Congratulations, new team members! I'm very excited to see development in 2023!
Welcome to the team, I'm excited to see what you all come up with in the coming year :D
Hi PaRaLiV3s Team. 👨🧔La bienvenue à Richard et Alejandro, j'espère que cette nouvelle aventure saura vous satisfaire personnellement et professionnellement 🎉And HaPpY NeW YeAr : j'ai hâte de voir les progressions- PARALIVES de 2023 qui doivent s'annoncer sensationnelles en Gameplay etc... et qui sait...un biig announcement 😚. 💪🏽En tout cas, nous sommes de tout cœur avec Vous, Je vous souhaite le meilleur 🙌🏾.
Merci beaucoup pour votre message et votre soutien🥰 Nous vous souhaitons une très belle année 2023!
Welcome Alejandro and Richard! I hope the best to the team and the project for this 2023 🤗🥰
Thank you, Victori! We wish you the best for 2023🥰
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Such a talented team!
Thank you so much! Happy new year to you too!
Welcome to the team, Alejandro and Richard! I'm looking forward to this year's developments.
Bonjour et bonne année 2023 à tous! J'ai hâte de voir la suite du jeu!
Merci Ludivine! Très bonne année à vous aussi :)
This is so cool. It's so fun to watch this project grow over the years. You all are amazing.
Thank you for the kind words, Kristen💕
Welcome, Richard and Alejandro, and happy new hope you had a good one. I hope that the clothes that you put in the game are from different eras, please do. I am looking forward to seeing everything you guys put on here.
Thank you for your support and warm wishes! Happy new year😊
Happy New Year to you all and a great big welcome to the two new members, Alejandro and Richard. Can't wait to see what you all do with paralives. I can't wait to play this game. Yall are doing an amazing job so far, and I am happy to be a part of it.
Thank you so much! We really appreciate your support❤️ Happy new year to you too!
Omg fellow final fantasy gamer sweet! I'm glad you guys got more people. Happy New Year. It's nice to see y'all 😊
Thank you for the kind words! Happy new year to you too🥰
Welcome to the team Richard and Alejandro! It's always exciting to see new talent join the project. Plus It's so cool that you get to work with your brother Andrei Alejandro. I can't wait to see the progress that paralives makes in 2023! Also, it looks like team went bowling, who was the better bowler out of the group lol?
Welcome to the new team members! I'm looking forward to seeing how much Paralives grows this year!
Thank you for your support, Megan! Happy new year😊
This is so exciting!! 🤩 Happy new years Paralives team! And welcome Richard and Alejandro! 🎉 So cool that Alejandro and Andrei are brothers! Can’t wait to see what 2023 will bring for Paralives!
Thank you for the warm wishes! Happy new year to you too💖
Welcome, Richard and Alejandro!! What a fabulous New Years' surprise to see even more members of an already amazing team! I look forward to continuing this journey with all of you!
Thank you for the warm support, Jennifer! We wish you a wonderful 2023❤️
A warm welcome to the new team members, and I wish you all an amazing 2023 💕
Wishing you a wonderful 2023 too✨
Awesome pic guys, and one hell of an amazing super team! I cannot wait to see what this year brings in Paralives progression, I know you all will rock it! I hope you all had a fabulous holiday season and I wish you all the best in the new year. Virtual hugs to all <3
Thank you for your kind words, Terry! Sending virtual hugs back to you😊
Happy new year, team! I have a feeling this is going to be a BIG year for the game. I’m really excited. Also, BIG WELCOME to Richard and Alejandro. I’m thrilled to see more programmers added to the bench, it speaks to your commitment to the complexity of the live mode. One question, Alex - you note that Richard and Alejandro will be joining Anna, Jérémie and yourself on the programming and game design team. What’s Étienne up to these days?
Étienne has left the team to pursue something else :)
Welcome to the team Richard and Alejandro!! Looking forward to the updates in 2023 💖
Thanks Dei💕
This is AMAZING to see!! Welcome to the team Richard & Alejandro! Wishing you all a wonderful start to the new year and it’s great seeing you all look super cool in the pic!! ✨♥️🎆
Thank you Becky🥰
welcome, richard and alejandro! 💗