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tried to make irvin in the game. i’m so surprised with how well he turned out. i had so much fun recreating my boy 🥺❤️

Firstly, Paralives is AMAZING for an early access game with a 15 man dev team 🥰 I haven't had tons of time to play just yet, and I know there is TONS of room for improvement (that will happen in due time), so these are just my initial thoughts on the Para-Maker specifically.

I wanted to touch on something that I find sorta important.

Dark skin paras...😬

Now, I'm not saying anything about liking or disliking the artstyle because I think custom content will be able to fulfill people's needs and styles eventually. However, their vanilla options for dark skin are...not good.

Above is my attempt at making my sim Nyanaath. It took me waaay too long to make her look decent, even with the customization options for the skin highlights and such. It's always the first thing I notice; dark skins suffer from the same thing they suffer from in other games (both in the early Sims games and other character creator games). And that's a lack of detail. As an artist I can tell you it's because you cannot take a light/pale skin and simply darken it waaay down with a colorwheel without losing Every. Single. Detail.

Dark skin reflects light differently than lighter/fair skin, so when you darken it without considering that, it looks flat and undefined.

This was honestly something I noticed was lacking from the beginning when people were discussing the Para's stylized looks.

Dark skin Paras should not look like Mr. Popo from DBZ next to light or fair skinned Paras. This is something easily (relatively) fixable by making a separate category for brown and dark skins that have the proper detailing built in by default—or even just making some body detailing you can add to get rid of that flatness without having to pile on tons of makeup to brighten highpoints on the skin.

I also have my gripes with the fact that I can't get certain facial features without a preset. But again, more face and body sliders are something easily added. But I write all of this to say;

Here are some famous chairs! On the left is the Wishbone Chair and on the right is a collection of lounge chairs, in order, the Barcelona Chair, the Wassily Chair, the Womb Chair, the Eames Lounge, and the Ball Chair.

I'm also currently working on modeling the famous mid-century Brasilia collection by Broyhill

I'm a 3D artist who's never been super interested in the oversaturated Sims 4 mod scene, but I'm super excited to make stuff for Paralives! You might have seen me on the workshop already:

I'm dipping my toes in with easier stuff, especially texture-only stuff like tattoos, makeup, eyes, skin details, etc. However I'm also looking into the idea of trying to convert my favourite clothes and hair from TS4 into Paralives, with the textures edited to match the paralives style.

Right now I'm not planning on doing any custom content. However! If there are any particular items or categories of items you want converted, let me know and I'll keep it in mind! (I have access to nearly every pack)

Patch 0.1.3 is Out Now!

paras have different needs depending on personality. My para is an introvert, so instead of a fun need, she has a "me time" need. Her fiancé (extrovert) has a fun need instead.

You can break up suddenly, amicably or ask for an open relationship

there are meteor impacts???

you can customize posters and photos with your own photos

the paras can PILLOWTALK AFTER WOOHOOING???? Like they talk while cuddling. There are no voice lines and no animations for it yet but I can see it in the queue

you can vandalize the town (other paras don't react to it yet though)

you can change the skin tone of the fuckin PALMS, I have never seen that in a video game in my entire life

the genetics are so good DESPITE the colour wheel. Reminds me a lot of the Sims 2 genetics system, but it additionally has hereditary height and hair texture. Remember how a certain multibilliondollar company kept saying Sims 3 has wonky genetics because of the colour wheel for skin and hair? Clowns.

Build mode? Fantastic. Already.

very loud reminder that all future dlc for paralives will be FREE. No playable content being separated for extra costs *cough*

So if you’re debating whether a $40 early access base game is too expensive…maybe it’s actually not!

That said, I hope people realize the culture around cc for The Sims isn't normal and vote with their wallets and attention instead. Reward (and tip!) creators that do things for the love of the game, hobby, and community. -- And ignore those out for profit.