Paralives team members Léa and Alejandro have unveiled a speed-build video on Patreon showcasing the completed interior of L’Armoire, a clothing store located in the game’s Old Town, including updates to how your Parafolk will be able to buy and display clothing.

The video highlights a new outfit system that allows players to purchase clothing directly from mannequins displayed in the store. 

I had a lot of fun creating this space! All the other stores in the plaza have items for purchase or gifts available every day. This store needed its own system to encourage visitors to explore the city’s many public spaces.

Léa, Paralives developer

The post also welcomed their new team member, and community manager, Carina.

We have also done lots of other articles covering Paralives updates as they happen. You can view all of these here.

L’Armoire’s 

The team uploaded a full speed-build video on their Patreon and then later released it across their social media.

In this build video, you can see lots of the new objects featured in the store, like shoes, shelving, mirrors, individual changing rooms, and pouffes being used to display the mannequins, as well as general decorations like plants.

This video also showed off things like a colour wheel being used to change individual items, 360 degree rotation of items when being placed, as well as individual swatches of items you can choose from.

Have a look at some of the highlights from this speed build below.

It also gave us a closer look at the different clothing styles available. The video showed off everything from casual T-shirts and jeans combinations, summer dresses and pinafores, and more formal outfits like tuxedos and wedding dresses.

Right at the end of the video, we also see a Para purchasing an outfit from the mannequin directly, spending 50 Paradimes, the Paralives in-game currency, and putting their new outfit on straight away.

You can also watch the full video on their Patreon or social media.

How To Buy And Display Clothes

To display outfits, Parafolk will use a mannequin item, which will be available in the item catalogue to use in any build.

You can put any outfit you own on this to show off, as demonstrated by this Para here. The team also clarified that this mannequin object is not the final design, and when the game is released, it will look different.

If this is an item which can be purchased from the catalogue and used in any build, there are lots of opportunities for fashionista Parafolk to display all of their clothing.

Inside the shop itself, you can purchase outfits directly from the mannequin and put them on. Your Para will grab the item they want and put it on as soon as it is purchased, like we saw being demonstrated in the speed-build video.

The mannequin item will be available in the item catalog to use in any build. You will be able to dress it with your current outfit by interacting with it.

Alejandro, Paralives developer

Community Reactions

People on the Paralives Patreon are really excited to see this new clothing store and the updates that the team have made to make Parafolk shopping experiences more interesting and seemless.

Paralives is shaping up to be a great life simulation game, and the team are putting lots of effort into small experiences that your Parafolk can enjoy like shopping for new clothes. Simple details like your Parafolk putting on the outfits they purchase as soon as you buy them will make buying new outfits a seamless experience and mean you can change up your Para’s look as often as you want (so long as you have enough money for all these new outfits).

What do you think about this new update?