vivarocksteady

Challenge #9
Rec Us Your Newest Thing.

Usually around this time of year I end up sinking a lot of time into a city-builder or Civilization-type video game. I just get sucked in and spend hours upon hours, and I feel pretty bad about it, because I'm not really using my brain in any puzzling capacity (even though I think I am.) And there's no like, story or anything that makes me feel like I had a transformative experience.

This year though, I heard about a game called One Hour One Life, and that ended up being my Thing in January.

I clocked over 60 hours in three weeks, because I can never do portion control on basically anything, ever. It's a civilization/city builder game but with a big social element. You get born as a baby to another player, and only live for an hour. Each minute is a year, and you automatically die at 60 of old age. (You can also die before then of starvation, infections, etc.) So you have to work with other players to get the community up and running and keep it alive.

It's SO FUCKING FUN.

( me rambling about this game lol )

My favourite baby names to use:

GIRLS:
Saga, Sigyn, Apollonia, Delphina, Bronwyn (If there's already a Benton), Hope (when there's a population bottleneck), Evelyn (when there's a population bottleneck), Lillith (If there's already an Adam)
I tried to use Sif, but it also autocorrects it to Sifa, which I don't like as much.

BOYS:
Benton, Bronson (If there's already a Benton), Sagan (If there's already a Saga), Holden, Apollo, Adam (when there's a population bottleneck), Seth (If there's already an Adam)

MAN! I really love this game! It's starting to get to the point now where it's ONLY fun if there's people willing to commit to the role play, and it's tedious to try and hope for the best. I hope that when I revisit it months or years from now, there's still enough people on the server.

The game was entirely programmed and developed by ONE PERSON, so for his sake, too, I hope it keeps attracting new players. It only cost $20ish, there's no ongoing fees or anything, so he would need new players to keep joining to be able to keep running it.