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21 lives lived for a total of 7 hours
5 people lived past age fifty-five
1 generations in longest family line
0 monuments completed, 1 in progress
Current player arc has been going 0 years

a multiplayer survival game of parenting
and civilization building by Jason Rohrer
1 Player Review, 100% Positive



No DRM

No middle-person

Cross-platform

Open Source
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This game is about playing one small part in a much larger story. You only live an hour, but time and space in this game is infinite. You can only do so much in one lifetime, but the tech tree in this game will take hundreds of generations to fully explore. This game is also about family trees. Having a mother who takes care of you as a baby, and hopefully taking care of a baby yourself later in life. And your mother is another player. And your baby is another player. Building something to use in your lifetime, but inevitably realizing that, in the end, what you build is not for YOU, but for your children and all the countless others that will come after you. Proudly using your grandfather's ax, and then passing it on to your own grandchild as the end of your life nears. And looking at each life as a unique story. I was this kid born in this situation, but I eventually grew up. I built a bakery near the wheat fields. Over time, I watched my grandparents and parents grow old and die. I had some kids of my own along the way, but they are grown now... and look at my character now! She's an old woman. What a life passed by in this little hour of mine. After I die, this life will be over and gone forever. I can be born again, but I can never live this unique story again. Everything's changing. I'll be born as a different person in a different place and different time, with another unique story to experience in the next hour...


....Progress Report....
80 natural objects
(latest: Rubber Tree with Pepper Vine)
22 playable characters 3117 human-makeable objects
(latest: Blue Sports Car with Smashed Mosquitoes $30)
124,552 lines of code




Mythic Lair One Hour One Life Server
Mythic Lair is a private server and is not affiliated with the official OHOL servers or Jason Rohrer in any way.

In order to log in and play on our server, a unique key must first be generated for your email address. You can obtain a key by registering for one Here.

One Hour One Life is an open source project which is freely available on github.

You can take a look at the system requirements.




100% Positive Reviews:
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Recommended
Kaos (7.8 hours on record)
Posted 2.0 years ago

Great game!



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Update: More Fixes
June 10, 2021

https://i.imgur.com/NoSeJaz.png

I'm working through the list of reported bugs.

When picking the fittest follower to inherit a leadership position, exiled followers are no longer considered. Special biome/homeland boundaries no longer line up with ley lines for natural springs. Multiple DING messages, occurring at the same time (or in quick succession) are now queued, giving you a chance to read each one in turn. This means that if you inherit both leadership and ownership at the same time, you'll hear about both. A victim's fleeing emote is correctly preserved when they step in and out of a bad biome. The language specialist family is no longer accidentally fertile outside their homeland band, to the far north or far south. A gap has been added between the desert and jungle bands, since having those bands abut each other creates an impassable barrier for folks who get sick in both. And finally, the second phase of the tutorial has been re-designed somewhat to make it less confusing for new players.
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Fan art: by Cantface
June 10, 2021

https://i.imgur.com/lQrGCYA.jpg

More in this thread: http://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9017
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User Story: The Tale of Scott Silverthorn, by MaggieMurdoch
December 20, 2019

this is a tale of one of my last lives, sometimes I live very mundane and uneventful lives but other times I find one that stays with me and makes me think about it...This was one of those lives.

I was born a baby boy to a woman named Samantha Silverthorn in a tiny settlement, as I was born my older brother Lason was visiting, my mother had six children before me and had one after me, surviving to adulthood there was only me, my big brother Lason, my big sister Freyja and and my younger sister Liza. When I was born my mother gave me a single snake skin boot.
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