Paralives Developer Weekly Chat – October 3, 2025
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Paralives Developer Weekly Chat transcript from October 3, 2025 captures live Q&A on life stages, gameplay systems, and cosmetic items. The conversation spans community questions and developer responses across sections like Community’s choice question, Devs questions, Build mode, Paramaker, Art, and Live mode. It includes discussions on part-time jobs, teen/adult height timing, real estate mechanics, dating, clothing options, heterochromia, and potential future features. The following is a verbatim extraction of questions and answers exchanged among patrons and Paralives developers.
Community’s choice question
- ocelot: Are preteens or teens able to work part time jobs? (For preteens I’m thinking more like babysitting, dog walking once pets are added, etc)
- Jérémie: We currently do not have “part time jobs” in the game, there are only rabbit hole occupations and school. Characters at the teen and up lifestage can get a job. I think it’ll be fun to add part time jobs in the future!
- Ozymandias: Which life stage will Paras reach their adult height at?
- Jérémie: Currently, you reach your adult height when you get to the young adult life stage. This kinda makes sense, given the name! Thank you for the question!
👋 Devs questions
- Gui from the House of Gravy: Time for the call roll! Hi Alex! How are you? How was your week?
- Alex: Hello Gui! I’m doing alright!
- Gui: Hi Léa! How are you? How was your week?
- Léa: Hey Gui! I’m trying to take things slow this week in my personal life, just enjoying some time
alone and my little hobbies. I love fall, and I’m trying to appreciate it as much as possible 🍁
- Gui: Hi Anna! How are you? How was your week?
- Anna: Hi Gui!
- Gui: Hi Alice! How are you? How was your week?
- Alice: Good!! How are YOU?
- Gui: Hi Jérémie! How are you? How was your week?
- Jérémie: good question it’s too early to know at this stage but anything is possible
- Gui: Hi Sonia! How are you? How was your week?
- Sonia: Heya, I’m doing good thx!
- Gui: Hi Andrei! How are you? How was your week?
- Andrei: I caught a cold!!!! Still locked in tho 🔒
- Gui: Hi Chloé! How are you? How was your week?
- Chloé: Hello! Doing good, doing good! Been trying to take it easy and slow down a bit in my spare time
so I can dedicate more energy to Paralives 💪
- Gui: Hi Gab! How are you? How was your week?
- Gab: good!! thanks
- Gui: Hi Richard! How are you? How was your week?
- Richard: Yeeaa, i’m going hiking :D
- Gui: Hi Alejandro! How are you? How was your week?
- Alejandro: I had a good week! I hope your week was just as good!
- Gui: Hi Charlotte! How are you? How was your week?
- Charlotte: It was good !! I’ve been trying to walk outside whenever I can to enjoy the autumn breeze. :- )
Hope yours was good too Gui!
- Gui: Hi Lina! How are you? How was your week?
- Lina: Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!
- Gui: Hi Émélie! How are you? How was your week?
- Émélie: Hi Gui! Bit of a rougher week, but getting through it! Hope you had a great week!
- Gui: Did a big hike with my doggy! In the scorching heat! And I survived!
- Charlotte: I went clothing shopping TWICE this past weekend and was able to find what I wanted !! 🙏
- Gui: You guys were ready for the 30C this weekend?
- Alice: Yes (no)
- Alejandro: It was a surprise for sure!
- Andrei: Yes
- Chloé: No… I never was…not even in the summer…
- Lina: Can’t wait for it to snow
- Charlotte: No, we just put the AC in the basement 😭 Thankfully it ended up not being too bad.
- Gab: LOVED IT LOVE THE SUN LOVE THE WARM FALL DAYS LOVE BEING OUTSIDE IN THE SUN LOVE LOVE LOVE
- Ariana: Happy October! 🖤 Are you guys ready for Halloween? 🔪🎃 Do you guys know what you’ll be dressing up as? Since Halloween is going to be on a Friday this year, a Halloween themed patreon post would be lovely! 🧡
- Alice: YES, my apartment has been decorated since september 1st haha. I’m not sure of my costume yet, as I won’t be able to celebrate it with my usual gang of friends. 🥹🎃
- Léa: I’m planning on being a fairy this year 🙂
- Andrei: It’s either Superman or Michael Jackson
- Alejandro: I do not have any decorations lol, buuuut I do want to be a plague doctor this year
- Chloé: I love Halloween, but all that has occupied my mind lately is the game. I honestly forgot we were already in October… Please suggest costume ideas for me!
- Charlotte: We put up some autumn decorations in our living room which was fun ! However, for costumes I always end up struggling every year… maybe I’ll try going as a wizard this year?
- Gab: im so bad at decision making when it comes to Halloween costumessss ugh my latest idea was dressing up as Edward and Bella from Twilight with my girlfriend :,)
- criminal bin chicken moustache: what is your favourite low poly video game critter?
- Alice: I have no idea what we’re talking about here 🐸
- Alejandro: This sexy low poly fella
- Chloé: Classic
- Lina: This walking nightmare
- Charlotte: This icon….
- WickedBrony: The kid interactions are so, so cute! This isn’t a question. I just wanted to tell you that.
- Alice: 🥹❤️
- Lina: THANK YOU 💗💓💞
- satomi 🍂 #1 crimeFest fan: do you ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been?
- Alice: Sometimes, but I really try not to.
- Andrei: Only on Tuesdays
- Alejandro: Well I do because, you do miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
- - Wayne Gretzky
- - Michael Scott
- - Alejandro Flores
- Chloé: Sometimes always I do anything to try to do for anyone for any reason ever, yes!
- Lina: Well no, but sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.
- Charlotte: I occasionally, but not always, and whenever the opportunity arises– but sometimes it never does– I am perhaps, and quite frequently, am.
🌱 Live mode
- Ent of the Spooky ‘Stache: Thinking about the 'new' life stage, I wonder if rather than young adult, adult, and elder, we could have adult, middle aged, and senior.
- Jérémie: These are the names we’re going with at the moment. If you want to mod the names and change them, you can! I think there would be a slight difference in meaning as well, but you know!
- criminal bin chicken moustache: if heterochromia isn’t inherited can children still be born with it randomly?
- Anna: Not at the moment, no!
- ocelot: How many townies will live in the town at launch?
- Jérémie: We’re not ready to commit to any number of townies in town at this moment! I can say that there are currently 70 “characters” in the save file, but most of these are not “official townies” (yet?).
- ocelot: Can we upload our own drawings for child paras to do? (like the the picture decorations where we can upload our own files)
- Jérémie: That doesn’t seem to be possible, no, the item currently used during the animation is a prop and doesn’t result in a drawing you can move around or place somewhere. This could be a neat addition later on!
- WickedBrony: What can you tell us about the preteen lifestage?
- Last question. Is it called the pre-teen lifestage? Or are you going with something else, like “tween”?
- Jérémie: What I can currently say about the “Pre-Teen” lifestage is that it starts at 9 years old, lasts for 8 in-game days by default, unlocks your Vibe and nets you a Stat Point, has 3 growth spurts and allows a few new interactions that earlier lifestages couldn’t perform. Hope this answers the question!
- NebulaDreamer: Any updates about bills 👀? A lot of things from the initial gameplay reveal have been changed, wondering if it’s any differences for those too.
- Jérémie: No changes on the bill side of things! You still get them periodically with various things to pay based on item usage and the like.
- NebulaDreamer: Following up on that, is it possible that paras will shrink when they get older? Even just losing an inch or so when they age up to elders!
- Jérémie: That’s not currently in the works, no. Someone could probably mod that in, but we’re currently not planning to do that. It could be a nice detail (but only extremely eagle-eyed players would notice it, aha!)
- satomi 🍂 #1 crimeFest fan: are we going to have dates and some goals/wishes related to dating available on early access?
- Jérémie: There is not a “Date” system in the game at the moment. You can bring your Romantic Interest somewhere and have it be a date in your own internal story, but there will not be a UI element on screen blinking “DATE IN PROGRESS” or something of the sort. As such, while there are Wants related to romantic interactions and relationships, there are none related to dates. Dates could be really fun to add in the future tho! Thank you for the question!
- 🏡Build mode
- NebulaDreamer: What is real estate like so far? I remember in the chalet video we could have our parafolk buy an empty plot of land, is the system still pretty similar to that or is it more in depth?
- Jérémie: Things haven’t changed on the buying-a-lot side of things! When you start the game you can buy an already built house or an empty plot (there are some in town) and then go from there.
- 💅 Paramaker
- Ozymandias: What is the function of the "..." option next to "NB" in the gender selector?
- Jérémie: This opens an advanced menu where you can select things like, for instance, if your character can get or can get others pregnant.
- Ariana: I love vintage stuff (clothes, items, etc), will there be any vintage items in Paralives?
- Chloé: We have some items in this style at the moment, but we plan on adding more during and after the Early Access release!
- criminal bin chicken moustache: what types of heterochromia are in the game? i have central and’d love to be able to recreate
- Sonia: There’s the central and complete one so you’ll be able to recreate yourself 😁
- satomi 🍂 #1 crimeFest fan: are some clothing or accessory items going to be age locked?
- Jérémie: Yes! While things like high heels or lacy dresses could be technically equipped on every
character sharing the same model (Anything but babies and toddlers), we feel like very young
children wearing those would be strange, so they only appear at a certain lifestage. Same thing
for lipstick or tattoos.
🎨 Art
- Iceman: What would it look like if someone were to add a pattern that was just Moustache Man's face
repeated many times, and they then had a Parafolk whose clothes, furniture, and walls all used
that pattern? 👀
- Jérémie: It would be very scary! Also they would need to mod in something like that (and I’m sorry if there
is no screenshot of what it would look like here, it’s a bit of work just for a goof, aha)
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