Paralives’ 2024 Recap: The Year in Numbers (Patreon)

Hi, Alex here!

It’s our 275th Patreon post (wow, we made so many!?) and the last one of the year so I’ll take this opportunity to summarize everything we’ve done and what’s to come in 2025! Please note that we will take a short break from publishing Patreon posts for the Holidays and we will be back on January 10th with our regular weekly posting schedule ⛄❄️

👍 4 Major Events for Paralives in 2024

1️⃣ February 7, 2024: Live mode gameplay reveal video, no DLC announcement and 2025 release year announcement.

2️⃣ July 5-7, 2024: Paralives at Montreal Comiccon. We met a lot of fellow life simulation game fans there and we collected precious feedback on the build mode.

3️⃣ October 1, 2024: The build mode is feature-complete for launch and the programmers are now working full time on the live mode.

4️⃣ Throughout the year: 8 playtest sessions with 50+ people in total. This allowed us to improve the usability of the build mode and get a first round of feedback for the gameplay of the live mode.

 Four of us at the Montreal Comiccon last summer.

🕺136 New Animations

In 2024, the size of Paralives’ animation team doubled when we recruited Lina to work with Alice. Together, they created a ton of new animations to make your future Paras come to life! Kissing, marriage proposals, exercising, cleaning, repairing, dancing, interactions with babies, with toddlers, and more!

A few of the interactions created this year, each showing a single still frame.

📦 50+ Features Added to the Game

• New build mode tools: Fences, roofs, stairs, moldings, terrain painting and more

• Color swatches: We created thousands and thousands of premade color swatches for the various clothing items, furniture and objects you’ll find in the game

• Reworking of live mode gameplay systems: Needs, wants, emotions, careers and other live mode systems have been reworked (and it’s still ongoing!)

• Live Mode Content: We added more jobs, personality traits, emotions and wants

• Audio: Footstep, terrain tools and build mode interface sound effects

• Music: 5 new music tracks for the build mode and Paramaker

Screenshots from the live mode shared in last week’s post.

👕 156 New Paramaker Items

The talented artists from the Paralives’ team created so much new content this year! As we did for the recap of 2023, here are the new items that have been created and added to the game in 2024, starting with the clothing items and hairstyles for the Paramaker made by Sonia and Léa.

Not pictured here: new makeup, new accessories such as necklaces and rings, new body hair, and more. With all this content, plus the one we made before in 2023, we can’t wait to see the Parafolks you will be creating! We will keep creating more and more clothing items and hairstyles before and after the release so don’t worry if something is still missing.

 🏠 637 New Build Mode Items

Regarding the build mode, Léa and Chloé didn’t sit on their laurels either. Below are all the objects they have created this year.

This doesn’t even include fences, moldings, wall and floor textures that were made as well!

  Some of the builds we shared throughout the year.

📅 9 Major Goals for 2025

• ⚙️ Finish the core features of the live mode

• 🎮 Have testing sessions with friends and improve the live mode gameplay according to the feedback

• 📝 Add a lot more content to the live mode

• 🌆 Build the town and the townies that you will be able to play with at launch

• ➕ Add more sound effects, character animations, build mode items and Paramaker items to the game

• 🔨 Fix bugs, improve the UI and the user experience and optimize the game to make sure it runs smoothly

• 🎯 Announce a more specific release date, when we’re ready

• 🙍 Prepare and deliver rewards for some Patreon tiers like naming a furniture/object of the build mode and having a character made in your image

• ⭐ Release Paralives in Early Access on Steam!

This is going to be a great year for Paralives 😍

Happy Holidays and see you in 2025!
- Alex and the whole Paralives team