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Randomization in the Paramaker, Bugs Showcase & Conversations
🕑 Added 2025-04-18 13:05:03 +0000 UTCFor today’s Patreon post, Alejandro, Charlotte and Richard will be showcasing some snippets from new features as well as some bugs! This post is for Patrons only, please don’t share any of its content 🤫🔒
Character Randomization
Hi everyone, Alejandro here! I have a simple new feature to show today. We've added a new button that allows players to randomize their character’s visuals. It selects a random character from a big pool of premades with the same Life stage and other variables, ensuring that every result is realistic. After randomizing, players can still customize the result to their heart's content.
Randomizing through multiple characters, in this case, with a set life stage and body type/gender. Note that a lot more characters will be added to the pool and some might be removed if we end up using them as Townies.
That's it from me for today. I’ve worked on lots of other stuff, but nothing that can be easily showcased in a Patreon post—so at least I get to show you something!
Bugs Showcase
Hello everyone! Charlotte here with a small showcase of some entertaining bugs I’ve come across in the past few months of testing. 🐛 Hope you enjoy! ✨
Two characters spawning in and out from work…guess that happens you’re not sure if you want to go to work or hang out with your friend 🤔
When the staircase placement isn’t quite sure where you want to place it…
Surely 5 jobs at once isn’t too much, right?
Oh boy… I’m not sure the skin is supposed to be doing that!
That’s one deeeeep fridge you got there.
That's quite a special way to sleep…
That’s all from me today, hope these bugs brighten your day. :-) I’ll pass it on to the next person now!
Conversation system
It’s Richard now! :)
I have been working on making Paras talking look more interesting. It's what we call the conversation system. It allows for Paras to take turns when talking, and Together cards can make a Para play an animation related to the card you picked (laugh for a successful joke, be awkward for a failed joke, act flirty, etc).
Richard is telling a joke to Alex, maybe that way, he will get a raise.
That is it for this week’s update. We hope you enjoyed seeing little snippets of what we’ve been working on!
Have a good weekend :)
Comments
Eleanor Swan
Yes!!!! Maybe we can collect gemstones and rocks and metals, too! Because there is a museum in Paralives, just like in ACNH. And when pets are added, maybe some minor pets like in the Sims 3.
Naqueyah
Now that you mention bugs. I wonder if there is going to be actual bugs in the game. Like flies around dirty plates. Or butterflies that you can catch. Creepy crawler would be cool.
jrrt1459
Great aesthetics on the randomization! I've seen too many random characters in games who are aesthetic monstrosities that I have to re-clothe before adding to the game.
SorAxel
Hi Alejandro here, Since we offer a lot of freedom with the sliders, the extremes are available to players. If we allow everything to be randomized, you may end up with sliders set to extremes, like a completely misplaced nose, that doesn't work with the rest of the randomization. It is to avoid having completely broken randomized Paras, not so much about the clothes matching! Making a system with set rules will take a lot of time to make and tweak and we rather focus on more important stuff for now.
Makingmacaroonracoon
Could we maybe have both options when it come to randomizing? Ik you want to shuffle through premades so they all look good but thats often not a priority for me :/ so i value the para being unique more then their outfit making since..
BooDotBoo .
The bugs always make me smile. Not just because they’re funny, but because we get to see these things that some devs seem ashamed of showing, even though it’s all part of the process. And glad to see a randomization button, as well as seeing conversation play out more smoothly.
