#life by you

[allisas]

Life By You

This brand new life simulation game developed by Paradox Tectonic has just released an Official Trailer, a pre-order page at Epic Games Store, screenshots & concept art!

Early Access will be starting on September 12, 2023 and pre-orders are available from today! The first 100k people who pre-order will be invited to join a private Discord channel to ask questions directly to the team behind the game.

Earlier today the developers had a 20 min long livestream where they went over some of the ideas behind the game and what to expect from the early access period. Rod Humble, general manager at the studio, that has previously worked on The Sims 2 & The Sims 3  was there to introduce us to the game. 

The game itself seems to be extremely customizable with a big focus on player control and openess. Color wheels, scripting objects in game, dialog editor, no loading screens or rabbit holes etc!

More news will be arriving in the coming months!

#life by you #new simulation game #paradox interactive #paradox tectonic

[pooklet]

tbh, this is the sentence that sold me on Life By You. Also still excited to watch the evolution of Paralives, but it sounds like Life By You is pretty far along in development, so I would love to give it a try when it comes out. It really is time that The Sims franchise stopped having a monopoly on life sims, given the always-online-multiplayer-harvest-your-data direction they're allegedly going. Yuck.

#life by you #paralives #gif tag

[timemachineyeah]

Every time someone brings up adding wheelchairs or mobility aids to life sims people are like “but that’s too depressing! I’m trying to play my ideal life!” and it’s like

1) do you not think wheelchair users might also want to play their ideal life

2) DID YOU JUST FULL CHEST FULL ASS ADMIT YOU SEE PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS AND GET DEPRESSED??? DID YOU JUST FULL TONGUE IN YOUR FULL SHIT MOUTH SAY “but in my ideal world people like them would not exist 🥺”. FUCKING EUGENICS JONES OVER HERE LIKE “but what about my great race society :( “

And people are always like “oh that’s reasonable, people want to escape”, like no it isn’t. I’m not gonna dictate how others play their game, but it isn’t reasonable to want to escape the completely neutral existence of people who are different from you! It’s shitty! That’s a shitty way to look at other normal human beings living their normal lives!

😑 i’m tired

#timemachine wuz here #life by you #the sims #Paralives

[k-hippie]

LIFE BY YOU ...

So Paradox Software announced today its new simulation life game : Life by you ...

Impressively Open World with a new kind of dialogue interaction engine full of possibilities, the return of the “Create a Style” ( such as the Sims 3  ) in a more modern style, quite many transportation ways including the possibility to drive a car by yourself, freedom to explore, freedom to place a house almost anywhere you want in the landscape ... well interesting stuff indeed.

As a non native english speaker, I shall having to rewatch the presentation video of course ...

Tools for modders will be quickly available. It seems the moto of this new game will be freedom of the gameplay. Which is excellent !

We didn’t see much construction abilities, almost nothing in fact ... But I'm pretty sure there will be soon many pictures and videos about Life By You.

I don’t know if it’s because the alpha stage or Real Engine or something else but the light of the demo is quite horrible : far far too much contrast, tiring for the eyes indeed !

I hope the UI design will more harmonious colored that shown in the first pictures ...

It will be available next September and for Windows ONLY : which is for now a bad point to me. More specifications on Paradox website ...

There is much more to say but better to discover it by yourself ;)

Quite interesting to watch the presentation : here

#life by you #k-hippie talk

[javitrulovesims]

It seems that it's time for EA to have more official Competition

#Javi Chatter #Life by You #Visually is not my cup of tea but... the beach shots looks amazing #Youtube

[olomaya]

Honestly, I'm relieved. This game was still looking so rough and I'd feel much more comfortable with a June release than this coming out in 6 weeks.

I was watching a video from SatchoSims* and he talked about how LBY is more just a compilation of gameplay features without any gameplay and he definitely pinpointed my main issue with the game despite my excitement for it. I just don't know what I'm going to DO or what I will want to do because they haven't really done a good job of explaining the rules and structures and goals of the game (aka what the game is about).

I'm still excited for it and will definitely play it in June and am eager to check out the modding tools but yeah, what are we doing?

The Sims was a time management game. You had to figure your shit out and meet your basic needs all while juggling other mini challenges and responsibilities and TRY to become successful which would then unlock cool shit to buy or do that you would have the time to do because the money and rewards and perks you grinded for allowed you to do it.

And then TS2 improved on that by focusing on interpersonal relationships and making that more complex so that Sims felt more unique but also had to focus more on mental health and well-being and the drama that comes with interacting with other people.

Then TS3 took that even farther by basically unleashing chaos all around you with an open world so you have less control over what is going on so while you are grinding away to create a dream house for the Sim you want to marry and grow old with, you head over to the park and see your future spouse making out with some asshole in zebra print pants! And then on top of that, they deepened skills and hobbies so Sims have soooo much to do so that life goals are so much more diverse (though I will admit this came at the expense of interpersonal relationships). People often say that they wish TS3 had TS2's hobby system but in my opinion, it not only does but it's infinitely much better than TS2's. I would argue that TS3 at its core is a game about hobbies and interests.

I love that LBY seems to be wanting to improve on TS3 (because TS4 definitely didn't) and give us a true life simulator but I still don't understand what the game is about. They show off how many traits they have and how we can mod in our own traits but what do the traits means? If a character has a Difficult Childhood trait, how is that going to affect their ability to form relationships, fall in love, be a good parent? They said we could have truly homeless characters to play Rags to Riches challenges. That's awesome! Can we see that? How does the economic system work? Could it be integrated, for example, where household taxes and bills actually go towards community development? Like THIS is gameplay. I don't want to see another treasure trove video or someone doing work tasks. Those are features, not core gameplay and if it is then I'm afraid Rod Humble is making TS4 competitor, not TS3 which would be a shame.

*I don't know if I like him or not, but he has good viewpoints compared to the other high-profile Sims 4 YouTubers who at this point are practically on the Maxis payroll desperately trying to pretend that game is interesting because it literally pays their bills 😭😭

#life by you #rants #Youtube

[nikkeisimmer]

Gonna tell ya right now...

If you play Sims 4 and like that graphic style, you're NOT going to like #LifeByYou by Paradox Tectonic. Rod Humble, I think, listened to those who were unhappy with the direction EA went on Sims 4 and catered to them. He was one of those who had full direction on the way Sims 3 went when he was at EA and thus has leaned more towards that in terms of creativity.

I'm starting to think of this as Sims 3 rebooted with way better graphics. And with the assets and DLC, this is going to stomp Project Rene (Sims 5)'s ass.

I watched the teaser trailer this morning and HOLY ****! I was blown away by the opening shot. I'm getting shades of Cities:Skylines. This is going to take away the monopoly that EA holds on the life-sim genre and turn it on its head.

March 20, 2023. Paradox Tectonic is going to put out more information on this upcoming title. Mark the date.

#Life By You #Sims 3 #Sims 4 #Life Sim genre #Paradox Tectonic #Paradox Interactive #Life Sim Competition #Electronic Arts is going to get their ass handed to them #Electronic Arts #The Sims Franchise #Game Up EA Paradox is coming for ya #Youtube

[simnostalgia]

Really interesting article about how Life By You's Rod Humble noticed players use life simulation games. Very interesting to me that he brings up telemetry and then mentions how such information could, and I quote, "go to hostile governments".

This is so funny. They're really playing hard ball and they're hitting all the right buttons for simmers. I really hope they can make this work.

#original #The Sims #Life By You #LBY #Rod Humble

[letomills]

Life By You stuff that caught my eye, starting with CAS. It’s looking really good: we’ve got a non-binary option and the possibility to choose an AFAB or AMAB body independently from gender (I wish there was an androgynous option but maybe that can be achieved with sliders or something).

And a bunch of traits. The color coding suggests that all of these belong to different categories - as far as I can tell, all we know for sure is that the blue ones are "backgrounds” that can hopefully be acquired during gameplay depending on the human’s experience. I wonder if there’s an “encourage” mechanic. And yeah, they call the sims “humans”, I wonder if they have plans to create supernatural species (they haven’t even talked about or showed any animals yet so we’ll see).

1 sec = 1 in-game minute. Are we going with 365-day years? Are the humans aging that slowly? They did show we had complete control over time, like we can fast forward 10 years in a click.

Lovely hair textures:

They didn’t show most of the age groups but we at least know they exist from the object script editor:

Seems like we’re getting family stuff after all.

#life by you

[charey111]

I’ve been a lifelong sims player since sims 1 but I’m SOOOO excited for Paralives. I’ve been a Patreon of them for some time and love how the game has advanced over the years especially with such a small development team. That doesn’t mean I will ditch sims 4. I enjoy playing the sims 4 but honestly, that’s because of the amazing mods and cc that was created for it. The Sims 4 as we all know, isn’t on the same level as its past predecessors and it’s sad to see the direction EA has taken the franchise. I have no interest in playing sims 5 as a result.

Life by You seems promising. I LOVE how customizable the game is, but still don’t love it due to how much it’s still lacking. And not a fan of the character design but love the way the world looks. But it’s still very early in development as well. What are your thoughts? 💭

#the sims4 #ts4 #the sims 4 #s4 #the sims 4 rant #paralives #life by you

[kestrelteens]

yes please rod humble

i really hope that life by you rules

i need variety in my gaming life lol

#cause nothing can ever make me play ts4 #rod humble #life by you #i’m also praying they change the paralives art style #cause that matters to me #that’s why i could never play ts3

[allisas]

Life by You

Paradox Interactive just teased a new life simulation game called Life by You. Old sims players like myself will recognize the name Rod Humble as the man behind the wheel of TS2.

More news will arrive at an announce ment event on March 20th.

How are we feeling about this? 😄

#life by you #new life simulation game #gaming news #i'm excited to see what this will turn out to be! #and i believe that competition is good for the genre

[simsllama]

So, there's Life by You, Rene Project, Paralives, and TinyLife. Are there any other upcoming games in the life simulation genre that are worth checking out?

#life simulation games #gaming #videogames #simulation #sim games #life by you #rene project #paralives #tinylife #sandbox games #customization #character creation #world building

[timemachineyeah]

Shout out to Rod Humble for being based af in this interview about Life By You

And also in this VentureBeat interview

#timemachine wuz here #life by you #rod humble

[thesimcommunity]

Big releases for #TheSims4 are happening this week! We'll take you through the Infants Update shortly after the patch release on March 14th. Expect Growing Together overviews, walkthroughs and guides starting March 16th.

Are you looking for something entirely new? Circle your calendars on March 20th as we cover the first info for Life by You - the upcoming Life Simulation from Paradox.

Stay tuned: https://simscommunity.info/

#simscommunity #the sims 4 #growing together #update #expansion pack #life by you

[silentgrim]

gagged

#cackling for the past 10 mins #this can’t be serious #WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS 😭😭😭 #god i cannot believe this game is real #who looks at these characters and go ‘mhm oh yeah ✨perfect✨’ SKDJFK #the developers need a wake up call bc i hear early access is available this year sksjfk #life by you #i’m glad there’s competitors. but they need to do better this is why people run to ea for sims #chatter #i love this it’s icon material