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#1 2018-06-16 16:07:35

jasonrohrer
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Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Working on summarizing the most interesting things about the game in a single sentence.

Here's an example:

Get born as a helpless baby to some other player as your mother, get older by one year every minute, play one small part in a multi-generational family tree, and help rebuild civilization from scratch, one unique life at a time.

I'm looking for better versions of this, or completely different one-sentence descriptions.

How would you summarize this beastie?

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#2 2018-06-16 16:57:36

aowen
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Registered: 2018-06-02
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

jasonrohrer wrote:

Get born as a helpless baby to some other player as your mother, get older by one year every minute, play one small part in a multi-generational family tree, and help rebuild civilization from scratch, one unique life at a time.

That was a fun exercise.
Here's some rephrases/one-offs.

You are born as a helpless baby in a family of other players, where you age one year every minute,
trying to contribute a small part in a multi-generational family tree, and help rebuild civilization from scratch,
one unique life at a time.

In one hour, you'll experience life and death in a multi-generational family, all the while trying to contribute
to society, which is fighting to survive in the harsh wilderness and evolve from hunter-gatherer to modern civilization.

In one hour, you'll experience one life, from birth to old age, where you play a single part in a multi-generational
family of other players, trying to rebuild civilization from scratch, one life at a time.

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#3 2018-06-16 17:15:53

Spockulon
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Jason,

I've always liked your description of the game as being a "10,000 foot view" of humanity and civilization. I try to work that phrase in when I describe it to friends. This game is very much a minimalist simulation of social relationships.

I think it's important to work in the anonymity of the game as well. I think many new players would expect to play with friends, which is not what the game is about. Additionally, anonymity affects gameplay in a huge way because you never know exactly who you are playing with.


If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean (the village, that is)!

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#4 2018-06-16 17:17:58

startafight
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Live, Laugh, Love, Grief.

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#5 2018-06-16 17:21:07

Aurora Aurora
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

"Needs more incest."


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Go-to person for anything roleplay related.
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#6 2018-06-16 19:24:14

WomanWizard
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Spockulon wrote:

I think it's important to work in the anonymity of the game as well. I think many new players would expect to play with friends, which is not what the game is about. Additionally, anonymity affects gameplay in a huge way because you never know exactly who you are playing with.

How about: Contribute anonymously to a multi-generational, multiplayer society, as you live out your life from birth to death with only one hour to give your family what they need to survive and thrive without you.

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#7 2018-06-16 20:13:08

TheRedBug
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Registered: 2018-03-18
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Be born next to stew to make more stew or make it so more stew becomes available so your child can be able to eat stew.


STEW! STEWWWWW!!!

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#8 2018-06-16 21:00:55

Uncle Gus
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

How about: "F"

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#9 2018-06-17 01:40:20

YAHG
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Be a small part of something larger


"be prepared and one person cant kill all city, if he can, then you deserve it"  -pein
https://kazetsukai.github.io/onetech/#
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1438

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#10 2018-06-17 02:57:34

Baker
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Registered: 2018-03-06
Posts: 445

Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

You will die one way or the other.


"I came in shitting myself and I'll go out shitting myself"

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#11 2018-06-17 03:50:15

yvanhooe
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Registered: 2018-01-01
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Child abandonment: the strategy game.

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#12 2018-06-17 04:26:55

Anshin
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

https://www.savethechildren.ca

Save the Children

Working towards a world where every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.

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#13 2018-06-17 04:36:15

Alleria
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Registered: 2018-03-30
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Why work when you can carrot sponge


"Words build bridges into unexplored regions"

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#14 2018-06-17 04:48:30

Realcooldude
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Registered: 2018-05-20
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Stab everyone with a knife!

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#15 2018-06-17 04:49:30

Realcooldude
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Or atleast that seems to be what it is about lately.

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#16 2018-06-17 05:13:03

pein
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Child starvation simulator, where you build things out of most weird materials to advance faster in research tree, just to see that others kill each other on the first chance.


https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7986 livestock pens 4.0
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4411 maxi guide

Playing OHOL optimally is like cosplaying a cactus: stand still and don't waste the water.

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#17 2018-06-17 05:38:15

YAHG
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Anshin wrote:

https://www.savethechildren.ca

Save the Children

Working towards a world where every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.

Evil bastards, they feed starving kids to make more starving people.. Instead of building factories and giving their parents jobs to be more than beggars.

All with the snug moral satisfaction too..


"be prepared and one person cant kill all city, if he can, then you deserve it"  -pein
https://kazetsukai.github.io/onetech/#
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1438

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#18 2018-06-17 06:30:56

Realcooldude
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

YAHG wrote:
Anshin wrote:

https://www.savethechildren.ca

Save the Children

Working towards a world where every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.

Evil bastards, they feed starving kids to make more starving people.. Instead of building factories and giving their parents jobs to be more than beggars.

All with the snug moral satisfaction too..

Capitalism at its best! If you think about it, its just like this game lol.

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#19 2018-06-17 11:11:49

happynova
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Registered: 2018-03-31
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

How about:

Each time you play, you are born as another random player's child and given one hour to live a complete, unique life, birth to old age, in which you can nurture a family and advance a civilization that may live on well after you are gone.

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#20 2018-06-17 11:40:09

wondible
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Registered: 2018-04-19
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Rebuild civilization one life a time, while raising children - your fellow players.


https://onemap.wondible.com/ -- https://wondible.com/ohol-family-trees/ -- https://wondible.com/ohol-name-picker/
Custom client with  autorun, name completion, emotion keys, interaction keys, location slips, object search, camera pan, and more

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#21 2018-06-17 12:13:01

FounderOne
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

happynova wrote:

How about:

Each time you play, you are born as another random player's child and given one hour to live a complete, unique life, birth to old age, in which you can nurture a family and advance a civilization that may live on well after you are gone.


I almost like it. Just two points.

1) Each time you play, you are born as another random player's child

---> Sometimes you are an eve.

Maybe more like:
Each time you play, you are born into a different life


2) nurture

---> maybe use a different word for it. Basic English speaking people wont understand it.


Its a rought world - keep dying untill you live <3

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#22 2018-06-17 14:41:48

YAHG
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Long run on sentences are shit marketing.


"be prepared and one person cant kill all city, if he can, then you deserve it"  -pein
https://kazetsukai.github.io/onetech/#
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1438

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#23 2018-06-17 22:04:24

Lotus
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Registered: 2018-04-28
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Live an entire lifetime within the course of one hour as you rebuild civilization from scratch and raise your fellow players as babies to continue your work.

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#24 2018-06-17 22:20:28

dana
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Registered: 2018-03-09
Posts: 31

Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

How the heck do I do anything: The Simulation

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#25 2018-06-18 01:37:54

sanchez
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Registered: 2018-06-07
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Re: Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

Staby stab stab

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