Exclusive Chalet Tour for Patrons Only (Patreon)

Hello Internet!

Anna reporting from Paralives Studio Inc., on the eve of a very special day that I’m sure plenty of you have been waiting for a long time: the famous chalet reveal! But as promised, we have a sneak peek for Patrons only in this very post down below.

The full video reveal will happen tomorrow, 1PM ET on the Wholesome Direct. The Wholesome Direct version of the video is quite short, so in order to showcase more of the building process, we decided to also release a longer version of the video, simultaneously on our YouTube Channel. Stay tuned!

I know I know, it’s been a while since we announced this house building video, but it’s almost time now! Last year, when we announced it and asked you to vote on a theme for the build, we planned to build it and showcase it in late 2020 or early 2021. As you already know, we chose to postpone it to polish the build tools and make progress on other parts of the game like the Paramaker. Game development is a wild ride! Making a single feature work perfectly requires a lot of work coding, debugging, testing and sometimes going back to the design board again. Apart from the build tools and regular player features you’ll see in action in the video, there are plenty of mod tools in the background that needed the same treatment. Thankfully, our small but fierce team of build mode programmers was ready to take on the challenge!

Even now, our UI, mod and build tools still need improvements and are being actively worked on, so it’s not the last time you’ll hear about them.

We’re all happy with the result, as we were able to build everything from scratch in the game, including every item with our mod tools, and seeing all these new objects in their new environment. Everyone in the team was able to contribute to this result and it makes us super proud!

Chalet Sneak Peek  (For Patrons only. Please don’t share)

Now with that said, let me take you on a secret tour of what you will be able to see in our famous chalet. Close your eyes if you don’t want to be spoiled!

Here is how it looks like from outside:

...Did you notice the bear?

The cozy interior looks like this:

This is what you see after you just entered through the door. Here are the dining room and the kitchen, both surrounded by large resized windows and separated with a curved wall. It looks like a cozy place to eat poutine after a long day out!

Or maybe you’d like to chill in front of the fire, drinking hot cocoa perhaps, sitting comfortably on our modular couch or our famous “sausage” armchair (temporary name… unless?). Again, there’s nothing like too many windows when you build a cabin in the middle of a beautiful landscape.

Rest reassured, there are comfortable and modern amenities in there too!

The above screenshot contains an early look at our catalog UI. It’s still very much a work in progress, but we’re satisfied enough with the general look to show it in action in the long version of our upcoming video. Thumbnails are not in the perfect shape just yet, and we’d like to add sub-categories to the left menu, along with some “resizable” or price indicators, to cite just a few improvements we’re going to make in the future. Thanks to everyone who suggested great ideas for the furniture catalog menu in this previous Patreon post, they will come in handy!

I’d like to show you a little bonus feature that we haven’t shown anyone yet! You can hold the Shift key while moving an object to move it into or above the ground.

Here concludes this little tour, hope you liked it! Thank you so much for bearing with us during this long journey. Can’t wait to see your reactions to the video!

Cheers,

Anna

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