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March Dev Update + Community Brainstorming: Needs

[h2]March 2022 Dev Update[/h2]

Hey everyone!
Hope you’ve been doing well. Here’s what the Paralives team has been working on for the past month.
📅 Planned features to integrate to the interaction menu
🎨 Worked on the art style of the environments (furniture, walls, floors, and vegetation)
🎨 Added chin customization options
🎨 Added and improved some sliders in the Paramaker
🎨 Improved textures on the Parafolks
🛠️ Added new emotion animations
🛠️ Brainstormed new animation ideas for the live mode
🛠️ Worked on the design of the interaction, action and animation systems
🛠️ Made various improvements to our modding tools and the control panel
🛠️ Fixed bugs and improved various features of the Paramaker such as the tool for tattoos
🎶 Made demos to explore the musical style of the game
🎶 Created and improved sounds for the Paramaker
🧠 Fourteenth public community brainstorming on town services and businesses
🏡 Shared a sketch of a house we are currently working on
💫 Showcased a dizzy Maggie in the Paramaker
✨ Secrets!

Current Status - April 2022
➡️ Brainstorming and designing the live mode core systems: interactions, animations, pathfinding
➡️ Improving the Paramaker, adding more features and fixing bugs
➡️ Adding body and face shapes for the adult human model
➡️ Designing and implementing the animation system and its mod support
➡️ Creating more character animations
➡️ Working on the musical direction and soundtrack of the game
➡️ Brainstorming and designing different aspects of the game

You can also find the full development progress on our website.




[h2]Community Brainstorming Session[/h2]

Here we go again with a Paralives community brainstorming! 🧠
The new theme is: Basic and Complex Needs!

Here are some questions that you can ask yourself:
🔋 What needs would you like to see in Paralives?
⚖️ How would you prioritize or categorize needs?
😐 How would ignoring a need for too long impact Parafolks?
🍽️ What would be different ways to fulfill each need?
👪 Should all Parafolk have the same needs? Should it vary from one Parafolk to another?

💡 To participate, share your ideas on our Discord server in the #basic-and-complex-needs channel or on Reddit!

Cheers!
The Paralives Team