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🥧 New Food Showcase + Our Selection Process
🕑 Added 2023-07-14 13:24:42 +0000 UTCHello everyone, Chloé here to present you today’s Patreon post!
A little while ago, we showed you all different meals in the new art style we chose for them on Patreon and social media. Since then, we have been working hard at another challenge: making a set list of food items to include for the game’s launch. I will be explaining our selection process, and will be featuring some of our new yummy foods!
The Selection Process
We have been receiving a lot of suggestions for food to add to the game. We considered what the community suggested, did a brainstorm with the team, and then Léa and I sat together for hours on end to study the topic and create a list of different meals we would have in the game.
And that’s just a snippet of the list! So many hours went into deciding what would make the cut.
We had a few objectives in mind when coming up with the list:
- We want different types of meals for the time of the day (i.e. breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- We want different meals for different cooking skill levels (beginner to pro!)
- We want some cultural variety in the meals; however, selecting only a few cultures is hard. We decided to prioritize meals that fit our objectives the most, and add further options in future game updates.
- We want variety and choice for Paras dietary preferences or restrictions.
- As we are only 2 artists working on this (while working on furniture items, and characters in Léa’s case), we have to be smart with our choice of food to make the amount of work necessary realistic for our small team while still having a substantial number of meals for the player to choose from.
The last point was crucial for deciding what would make it to the final list. There is a lot planned, so we needed to up our production speed for food. We prioritized meals that would offer a good variety while having the possibility of sharing the 3D object and textures. If that last bit sounds abstract to you, don’t worry; you will find examples in the section below!
Food Is Served!
Most of the food items done so far. One of the hardest things while working on food is resisting the hunger that comes with looking at food pictures all day!
Depending on the Para’s skill level, new soups will be unlocked. You will know which ones require more skill because the cream is different!
For the cream soups, we were able to create a lot of different types (asparagus, pumpkin, beet, etc) while minimizing the work required. Between the various flavors, we reuse most of the work and only need to do a few quick touchups. Tada! New cream soups can easily be created.
Pies! Do you prefer savory or sweet pies?
In this case, we chose a base pie in which the filling is mostly hidden until we cut a slice of it. As such, I only had to redraw the filling for the different types of pie we needed. Obviously, this look of a fully covered pie isn’t appropriate for all types of pies, so lemon pie will have to wait for now! (Sorry, lemon pie lovers! One day though, one day…)
Should we mayhaps add beans on toast?
For the breakfasts you see above, I created all the different elements and was able to mix and match them into different meals. Some little touch-ups here and there, and we get different spreads for our toasts, too! These will require some different skill levels, as it might be too daunting for a beginner to whip up a whole English breakfast by themselves!
Léa created this yummy pizza just in time to show you all!
Similar to the other items on the menu today, the pizza will serve as a base to iterate and create variations. Pineapple on pizza, anyone?
That about wraps up today’s Patreon post. I hope you aren’t too hungry now; I know I am, as I am typing this! I also hope this gives you some insight into our selection process for the food and what we will be showcasing in the future.
Have a great weekend! ((っ˘ڡ˘ς)🥄 🍛
Chloé
Edit - September 28th, 2023: This post is now public, feel free to share it!
Comments
Vari_Ares
Love the look of the foods in this game ! So well done ! Please make hundred of them now !!! <3
Ruslana Ivasenko
I would like to see salads as well as tasty drinks, for example, cocoa or tea (with a little bag inside the cup, I think it's cute), sushi, or a poke bowl
Alex Massé
Love this idea, I'll write it down, thanks!
Sinjon Frank
Got hungry reading this ngl lmao I would love to see some Greek food in the game if its possible in the future
Yunahara
Could we have an option to just cook a meal that is appropriate for the time of the day and the para preferences/restriction. I get easily overwhelmed and having to not choose what to cook all the time would be cool. I sometimes don't care if paras eat sandwich, omelette or a soup.
Nathalie Carluccio
OMG, I am Soo hungry right now 🤣🤣👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hannah Moody-Goo
Yum! Great work! And yes, definitely pineapple on pizza. :D
KittyPara
ça donne envie de manger <3
Yvette Lopez
Foods look yummy!
Januarie Stories
Parafolk be eating better than me
queentowwy
I love how it looks so far!! Keep it up!
Zuzanna2002 Czarnota
Im all in for the soup gameplay
Rachel Hayes
These look beautiful and so delicious!
Nana-Osaki6
looks amazing, very tasty. The first post about food i didnt think it was fitting of the paralives esthetic, but i now i see it totally does! only think is i would hope there are going to be round plates? or different types of shapes plates or colors would be cool. And also different drinks with different glasses that they eat and drink at the same time.
illykitty
Yes for beans on toast (common meal in the UK) and pineapple pizzas! What about noodle soup and/or congee for when paras don't feel good? A chunky stew type of mesh could be reused for various meals, chowder, goulash, bean stews, gumbo and so on!
Twilightbutterflypink
That food looks delicious I am getting more and more excited
Paige Fletcher
These look so good! Great work 🤩
Felicia
This is beautiful work! I hope there will be a grocery store where parafolk can carry baskets or push carts! 🥰
Noveternal
You're dazzling as usual💕 I hope the game will allow good variety of vegan and healthy food🙏🏻 some giant nutritious bowls would be just the thing! Btw your soups look sooo yummy, couldn't resist))
nemo
Looking great so far! I do wonder though if yall have put any consideration into using non-circular plates and bowls as the default? It might save on polycount without the chopped up circle look
BonaparteBardithion .
Granola/cereal/protein bars would probably be easy to repurpose. Same with different kinds of fruit cups.
BonaparteBardithion .
I imagine things like toast at least would be a seperate model from the plate since they'd need one in the Para's hand while they're taking a bite.
Wondrous_Mickey
I really hope we could also buy some food that can be already consumed in its form - not just fruit and vegetable, but stuff like cup of yoghurt or pastry. With that being said, instant food we could buy in grocery store would be also nice
Megan Santucci
Sometimes they do that to show you the size of a thing without giving too many spoilers
Megan Santucci
Yummmmmm soup
Gab (Paralives)
couldn’t agree more!! 🤤
Gab (Paralives)
I’m not too sure about pineapple on pizza but thank you so much for your sweet comment hehe
Gab (Paralives)
Aww thank you so much! (Hope you had a nice breakfast 😊)
Gab (Paralives)
We’re very happy to hear you’re liking it, thank you for the kind words!
Gab (Paralives)
Thank you so much, we’re so glad you’re liking the post! Have a wonderful weekend 🥰
Gab (Paralives)
so glad you’re liking it 😊
Gab (Paralives)
thank you so much Aneta!
Gab (Paralives)
that’s a really neat idea, thank you for your suggestion ☺️
pekeniax
This looks amazing! 💚
Bizbot
Yes please to beans on toast 💖
Maxx
I can't believe I just read this, got hungry and then got a notification on my phone that my pizza delivery was delayed! xD So unfair! (Great work as always)
Lyyo_
It's dinner time x((( I'm so hungry rn but I guess that means you nailed it haha! There is one thing I'd be really into if it was added to the game, and that would be some sort of soup, like the one in sims 2, that is "grandma's soup". That would be a recipe that could be handed down or only found in a library mixed up in the wrong section by mistake...who knows? But it's said that it cures most illnesses and that it brings family together!
honeylisel
and now i'm hungry :D The food look delicious, good job!
mintyKHat
Brewing tea with a kettle and a pot would be amazing
Sarah
The food looks amazing! Would we be able to change either the color or add a pattern to the dishware in the game?
Alica
The Ramen, Avocado toast and the big strawberry cake look especially good! :)
Alica
Same!
kesionna
Good afternoon, is the menu list supposed to blotted out? Because I can't see it.
tey711
Yum!!
Gab (Paralives)
Thank you!!
Gab (Paralives)
Thank you so much! We're so glad you like the look of the pizza 🥰
Vera Ohlsen
Darnit, I am going to have to learn how to mod if I want cheese on toast, aren't I? :P As for "easy to build multiples of with small changes": Stews. Indian sauce+rice combos. Butter chicken is a must.
Renikee
Will the pizza lose each slice as parafolks take them away? It would be an amazing detail.
sanaa jones
I love the food that is shown today! I would like to see more of the culture food items though. As a black person excited for this game, I would really love to see a Seafood Boil and Southern Peach Cobbler in the game. Overall, I really like how the food looks and how you reuse previous items in order to make more items/variety of food. Can't wait to see more!
Luna
that pizza looks divine
Kiiiwiii
It's amazing that we are getting so many different foods from the get go!
Kiiiwiii
Will the food be "painted" on the plates or will it be volumetric? :) (Speaking of the toast atleast) they looked more painted
Gill Reid
We definitely need beans on toast. Yummy! Don't mock it until you try it 😁
Junio Jose
😍😍 will the preparation animation be different for the type of food made? For example, using a bowl and spoon for the cake and a cutting board and knife for bread slices...
paris smith
Beans on toast is essential!
Kieran Wade
Well...I WASN'T hungry before this post 🤣
BekkiRoss
Looks amazing! 😍 You're absolutely nailing the food textures! It all looks so yummy! And yes, we need pineapple on a pizza 👌🍍
BreakingGaia
I am looking at this post before eating breakfast and that toast and the soups look delicious right about now. This game looks so cozy. I absolutely love it!
Alexi
Figures I end up reading this when I'm hungry lol
Fran Smith
These look great! And a great prioritisation of what's important too. Great dishes to start with, and I'm sure more will be added with time. I really like that you started with some staples.
frenchifries
They look great! In my opinion it's more important to have a good variety of foods that fulfill different categories and dietary preferences than it is to have a million billion choices of cool but functionally redundant foods. Is there a plan to incorporate an ingredients system? For example, Paras would have to buy certain ingredients from the store, or grow them in their garden, or find them in the world (fishing? foraging?) to use in cooking? And skill level could affect the quality of the ingredients they're able to grow/catch/find, allowing them to make tastier/more filling meals. I always love that sort of thing in games :P
Lane Brettschneider
That pizza crust! That is a gooood pizza! I can taste the brick oven flavors just looking at it <3 "Savory or sweet pie" made me think of Sweeney Todd XD These are beautiful and incredible, thank you for sharing! It's always great to learn about your process and it's so helpful to know what you are thinking about and prioritizing when making these kinds of decisions. Thank you!! I hope you have a great weekend!
Tee W
That looks so awesome I love the variety of it all can't wait to see everything in game I'm so excited
Aneta Miteva
I love the art style of the food. It matches the aesthetic of the game and the Parafolk perfectly. It’s simple but with enough detail to give your imagination so much to work with! Great work so far guys!
Fredo und Franzi
I really love the variety of the food, very good job! But I would also love if households could buy other dishes besides this standard white round dishes. For example, there could be earthenware dishes in different colors and shapes (square, oval, round).
Thekla
Oooo yummy 😋
Pvydrow
The use of textures to convey the depth and the ingredients in a dish with minimum usage of polygons like how you guys did with the pizza and the soups is extremely cool to see, the art style really helps so much in terms of presentation, you guys did an absolutely amazing job! great work team
Abigail Buchmiller
Everything looks so good!!! I love the art style for the food!
Nuala
Big respect for this modularity of food tbh, even while I understand but am sad by the need to prioritise foods. (One day I'll get my beloved gai tom kha!) I hadn't realised before, but this is the first time a game pizza has looked delicious and appetizing 😅 Great work on all the dishes and the direction.
