The Team Plays Paralives + Floor Plans Showcase

I love the interior courtyard for the garden possibilities plus it allows more light into the house from more sides. The apartment one was very classic and is very versatile for simple game-play while the curved floor-plan looks like a fun challenge for interior designers and people who love more character in their homes I want to play around with some curved floor-plans in the final release. My only concern is how furniture would fit against the curved walls

love the interior courtyard

tho my fave is the curvy one, I’d love to see how the curvy walks get decorated

The first house reminds me a little bit of encanto :),

I honestly like all of them so much. It was hard to pick.

Will there be actual apartment buildings?

I love all of them! The airiness/light of the 1st one, the industrial second one and of course the c u r v e s of the 3rd. I voted for 3 even though I'd make the floorplan slightly different.

To me, a house with an internal courtyard is too normal while a high-ceiling apartment doesn't show much since it's on the ground floor. Hence, the curve wall customization grabs more interest. I really want to see how paras' routing is for this plan and how objects are placed on those curve surfaces.

The interior courtyard is such a fun idea! And I love how big the house is!

I love the curved walls! It would be awesome to have a curved courtyard house :)

I truly love all 3, but the curved walls won my heart and vote. I am so thrilled to have been along for the ride even before you added your team Alex, but you have definitely added all the right people to make this game what it is thus far. I can't wait until this goes into early access, because I will be full steam ahead to helping you all work out the bugs and needed tweaks as best I can. I am so excited for this game and have been since you began creating it. Thank you all for all you are doing to make this the best simulation ever! hugs to you all <3

i really want a longer live mode video soon. hoping for early access done by at least end of this year

I really like the apartment with the high ceilings, it would be the one I would have a para start in. Then build a house later on. I do love the courtyard of the first house!

Like the curved walls a lot, but an interior courtyard has been on the IRL wishlist too long to not get the vote here

Love the idea of the Curved walls option. For builders this is really something that will be useful and FUN to build with, off the bat. But it is also something that people who aren't builders will enjoy too because it seems easy to incorporate in a build. Genius ideas! Also REALLY love the apt, it looks so realistic.

I love all floorplans and can't really choose. xD One thing I noticed, is that all of your floorplans have rather small bedrooms. I like the option of a built-in wardrobe and I'm excited to see how these will be used in the game. Built-in wardrobes are something uncommon here in Germany, so it was never really part of my gameplay - but I'd love to change that. What I would love even more, if you could find different type of floorplans from all over the world. I find it so interesting how space is shaped and used differently worldwide. Perhaps these floorplans are more common in the northern Americas? Great work! Also amazing work with the curved walls!

I picked the Curved House C because while I LOVE a courtyard, having curved walls is a cool technique! Also it's great that you automatically have an apartment option and curved wall option in the base game. Making a courtyard is merely a building option while having curved walls and apartments are styling options, and that's pretty cool all the way around! Thanks guys 🥰

Is there any way I as a programmer, designer and and 3D modeller, can contribute to this project?

I took B because I find it the most realistic. I myself live in a tiny apartment.

J'adore. J'aime sont côté "hors du commun" avec ses murs incurvés. Ça donne envie de créer plein d'habitation de se style avec pleins de végétations pour le fondre dans le paysage, tel une maison troglodyte ! Personnellement, je serais tentée de combiner le A et le C !

I like something about all of them, but picked option A

I love this! There is a slow burn excitement about being able to play this game, without actually knowing when that will be. My 100% favorite part is the building aspect and. Wow. This makes me even more exciting! Thanks for playing your own game to know what might be missing and how it will be for us

Difficile de choisir ! J'aime beaucoup les styles différents des habitations... La plan A m'attire particulièrement pour la cour intérieure, tel un château ou une vieille ferme ! Le B serait le moins attirant des 3 pour moi je pense, mais l'idée de faire de haut plafonds est très sympa, ainsi que le style moderne. Le C. J'adore. J'aime sont côté "hors du commun" avec ses murs incurvés. Ça donne envie de créer plein d'habitation de se style avec pleins de végétations pour le fondre dans le paysage, tel une maison troglodyte ! Personnellement, je serais tentée de combiner le A et le C ! :D

I like something about all of them, but picked option A. It’s similar to how I normally build houses, and I like the courtyard. It’s great to see all the progress made!

Another amazing post! Im so so happy you guys got to test the game and I’m looking forward for the day that we finally can. Love the progress you all make every week! 👏🏻✨💕

I'm really excited to see the roofing tools cause right now I have no idea how I'd would roof these in the sims. Keep up the good work!

I love all three, but a garden and a small tree in the middle be cool.

I went for the curves although the court yard layout was calling me hard

I love the courtyard house but the other 2 are great too. I nearly always build a similar floorplan of the second one in the Sims but have never thought of a courtyard. Thank you Alex and the team for your continued combined brilliance. I am so ready for the Paralives game.

Previous games I have played of this genre making any of these would be difficult. I really like the Courtyard. It gives me more of a European vibe. But I'm always down for some high ceilings and maybe an industrial Edge to the apartment?

Looks great! I’m hoping to see tools for wall height soon, as well as stair placement and roofs! It would be cool if it was possible to change wall thickness but not sure if this feature is being considered. One other thing - I always loved how detailed and thought out the building levels were in The Sims, hoping Paralives will be just as detailed! (this video goes in a lot of detail - https://youtu.be/WI4w2wQ4AhI)

A and C are both equally my favorites. A because I feel like it'd be perfect for small-family gameplay, and C because it's so creative, and showcases the potential the game has for creativity and making builds that are unique and have character. I also voted C because it'll be nice to play with curved walls that don't glitch out, lol...

I chose option C because I love making irregular and odd shaped buildings. Though, I really both enjoyed house-plans A and C. I like A for the courtyard and being able to see what's possible incorporating nature within the interior designs of the house-plan (like having an indoor pond or being able to place actual trees inside homesfor example). I also like C for the unique wall tool of curved walls and seeing what is possible for them. I love making irregular shaped buildings so this is my most favorite. The possibilities of how homes would and can be decorated with these type walls, seeing how the windows are placed and settle on the wall, different window styles, etc. Also a question for curved walls is it possible to make a bubble house? Curved walls and a circular/dome shaped roof and having it be multi-story?

I love the A version ! Couldn’t chose another one because of the interior courtyard, it’s very similar to the plan I made for my Dream House for the day I will be able to build my own ☺️ It’s like, your secret garden, nobody can bring you harm, your little place of peace and quiet 🥰 But I also love the C plan, because it shows the possibilities of the game ❤️👍🏻

I'm so excited for the complex curved walls! I can't wait to make some weird, surreal homes!

Love B since I find that it's easier to play in smaller lots, less moving around. The courtyard is my second fave since I love that we can have that and it's pretty spacious.

I like the curve since its something different

These look so cool, and I'd love to play with all of them! But if I were to live in one, I'd grab a few friends and choose the courtyard. Put a glass roof over top so it can be a sun room for all seasons and I'd be perfectly happy :D

I like the simplicity and realism of B! However, I would love to live in a courtyard house like A if it didn't have QUITE so many angles! 😂

It's so hard to pick a favourite because they're all awesome in their own ways. I think for me it's the curved house just because it looks so different

I love all of the floorplans, 1 and 2 are probably the floorplans I'll be building most of the time. However I picked floorplan number 3 since I love strange layouts and spaces to work with, also in real life. That floorplan is the one with the most character. I can't wait to play this game, I have a feeling it will be my new favorite! And once I'm more used to the buildmode I know I will love to challenge myself trying to build more quirky builds with lots of character.

I like the first one but then I like all of them. I’d like to ask how much customisation have you got for roofs themselves? s it all automatic (they automatically fit to the walls) or can it be fully manual? For example, how do curved or cone shaped roofs work for the curved walls? Thank you

Voted for B, absolutely love that kitchen 🥰

I love the family one! The curved one seems to tight

This is so amazing 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😍

They all look great, I would love to play any of them! I only went with the family courtyard since it has such a spacious feeling, with all the light streaming in through those big white windows.

The courtyard sold it for me but I'd like to take a moment to appreciate the teams hard work and the successes that result. This project is inspirational and when you execute it I'm confident that you'll have an incredible foundation to elevate in the future. But most importantly is you'll make history and most definitely help with the impending gaming storm.

I wonder if we can manage like 2 or more apartments and switch between? I want to make apartments now with a shared garden in between them 😀 ohhhh this game is so exciting!

i went with A, because i'm a sucker for courtyards and C looks beautiful but would be a pain to roof 😅😬 i really like B too, because it looks like a place i actually might live in at some point. the high ceilings and simplicity of the floor plan are really appealing

all stunning

I can't wait to make good us of this incredible curved walls tool and make perfectly cubic house.

I love them all! Question though: is that closets I see in the courtyard house!? Are there going to be like closet related decor/clutter items? I'd love to be able to add details like that in my houses even if they're not fucntional!

I'm a little worried about how the rooft would work with such a crazy floor plans.

All of the above ...I went with C because of the curved walls and the space to grow. However, I love A for the garden. I can see the children playing while the Para keeps an eye on them. B feels like the first apartment my Para got when the graduated from college. Their first time living alone or they shared apartment with their college boyfriend/girlfriend. Overall, I can see my paras living interesting lives.

The Courtyard is amazing! But I think the apartment layout felt the most realistic. I wonder what each of these looks like from the outside as well

I love them all it's hard to pick one.

That apartment is gorgeous! I’d love to play in that as a bachelor 😎

I still get so excited when i see the curved walls! It actually was the first thing that really impressed me when i saw paralives trailer for the first time

I love the look of the high cieling apartment, with the big windows. I think it would be lovely to build big windowed houses for paras to live!

These posts make me SO excited. I love the brightness of A and the diversity of C. I can't wait to play this game.

Option C, because those curved walls are everything!

I would be really excited to experiment with possibilities with the curved walls

Lol why have a never thought to put a garden in the middle of a house? Looks awesome 👌

Happy new year, Paradevs ! (I wasn't around last week, sorry) This is gonna be such an exciting year for Paralives, especially with new people on board. And it's so exciting to read sentences like "play Paralives". Sometimes with the updates focusing on distinct aspects, we lose track of how things end up meshing together into one game ; I hadn't realized it was possible at this point to follow a path between the different articulations of the game yet. I don't know why, but I only realized now how many pieces of the puzzle are together already ! And it's only going to become a bigger picture, of course. I like the courtyard, but the experimental house has a certain flow to it that I can't resist. It's not just the curves, it's that it feels more like an open floorplan (which upon further inspection, isn't even accurate considering that aside from one wall, the courtyard home also has a large floorplan in the common areas). I don't know, it feels like a Para would actually have a reason to go all around the house, because there are "pockets" of activities embedded in the design, maybe. And the middle rooms would be cool for closet space, or even a secret space with a door hidden behind a tapestry ! Can't wait to see what new assets the team will add, that will give us options to furnish these places. Also can't help but notice that the word "apartment" is appearing here, which we hadn't heard about in a while, as far as I remember... Innnnnteresting !!!

I chose C because I like the uniqueness that curved walls give you, but all of the floor plans look great. I think putting an interior courtyard into a curved house will be fun as well. The game is looking great and I can't wait until it's finally ready for release :)

I like the simplicity of B. Also wondering how apartments will work! I would love for some Paras to rent rather than own

I honestly love every choice since they are unique and beautiful designs. The first plan with the interior courtyard made me fell in love instantly as I could feel home somehow in it so it was my first choice, on the other hand the curved walls look great on C and I can't wait to try them in game. And B keeps me thinking in how cool will be to live in an spacious industrial loft. Keep up the good work, you are doing great!!

Will we be able to build apartments with multiple tenants?

I went with A, but the curved walls look amazing. All of the options looks great.

I can't wait to play this game, I mainly plan to play it to build and decorate perfect houses. So far, you showed so many great way to build that I can't wait for, no other game seems to compete. Sims is close, but yours seems so much better. I really can't wait!

Awesome stuff, thank you! Was hard to choose a favorite for sure, you build some cool homes!

The internal courtyard made me so excited! I loved that floorplan. Though I did notice that one of the walls is actually a double. At first I thought you had changed the wall thickness (that possibility made me double excited), but looking closer it's noticeable that two walls were used there. Is it fair to assume that was a workaround necessary for the internal courtyard to work properly? Is it because at this stage floors exist in and only in closed rooms? What are your plans for floors on that matter for the final product?

Hard to decide between A and C! But went with C

I gotta go with the third one simply because after playing the Sims and seeing their lame attempt at "curved" walls, I am appreciative of how you guys make it look so natural and with so much variety. Would really love to see one of those sections furnished

I love the experimental house because you can!

A looks pleasing, but I adore "C". It's weird and unique!!

I wanted an all the above choice because I loved them all for their individual uniqueness. But since I could only choose one I picked A because it was more my style.

I have to say I'm blown away by the third floor plan, the Curved House. Sure, the curves are a bit unusual and make for a bit of an interesting time trying to furnish it 😆 but what really impresses me is how there are so many different curves and they all look really natural and amazing!! 😍 You did an amazing job!! ❤️ PS. I voted for B though, because it has furnishing 😛

The apartment doesn't really look like an apartment.

I normally would NEVER try to build with curved walls, but this floor plan makes it so enticing! I can already imagine the 60s-inspired, yet contemporary ways I could decorate it to make it feel really fun and stylish! These floor plans are so cool, creative, and useful!! So fun to think about the Paras who would live in each one! ❤️

All floor plans are really interesting! I chose A but just because I wish I could live somewhere like that

I picked C because I'd really like to see how the build can work around all the curved elements.

I can’t choose between A or C 🥲

That courtyard is gorgeous. I want one... but evil poll asking us to pick a favourite. They are all so nice but in different ways. <3

I like A but C those curved walls look sweet 🎂