Maggie’s Training + Poll + Pregnancy Gameplay (Patreon)

Hey there!

I hope you are doing well and had a nice week. I have a few interesting things to share this week! This post is for Patrons only so please don't share it, thank you.

Exercising with Maggie

You might remember Maggie’s very first outfits that we’ve shown back in 2020 when we first revealed her. One of them was a sports outfit. Léa recently reworked it to modernize it and make it fit with the art style that has evolved since then. Here it is now:

Alice created a lot of live mode interactions and animations for exercising in Paralives so now is a good time for a showcase! You might have seen some of them in a previous Patreon post but some improvements were made since then.

Push-ups

Note that this GIF and the following ones might nit play for you if you are using the Patreon mobile app.

Crunches

Squats

Jumping Jacks

Pregnancy

Recently, I thought it would be cool to add a very basic pregnancy system to the game, even if it’s something simple for the time being. Here’s what we can do in Paralives now:

1. Do an interaction to try for a baby (No animation for it yet though!)
2. If it succeeded, the character’s pregnant belly will progressively appear and grow over time.
3. When coming to term, the character will give birth. Right now, since we don’t have babies and toddlers in the game, it spawns an exact copy of the parent but smaller (looking around 6 years old)! Also, I’m looking forward to integrating Anna’s genetics system here so that the baby is made from the genetics of their parents instead of being a clone of one of them.

Pregnancy will be an important feature in Paralives so in the future, we will be adding gameplay related to pregnancy and giving birth like:

• Having it affect needs like hunger and more
• Having it affect the thoughts and moods of the parents
• Having to prepare for welcoming the child: purchase furniture and objects, decorate the baby’s room, etc
• Adding a random chance to have more than one baby per pregnancy and randomizing the gender. Cheats could allow players to select these, removing the randomness.
• Having animations happening when the child is born (nothing too graphical) so that the player notices that something important happened and that a new household member was added
• Being able to name the baby and maybe choose other specific identity elements
• And even more gameplay features like that

What do you think are the most important features related to pregnancy in a life simulation game? Please tell us in the poll below (you can select multiple answers) and feel free to tell us in the comments if you’d like to suggest more ideas related to pregnancies.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Alex