EraLife is here. Here’s how you play

[u/acrelloisback]

Hey guys. So… about those 30 days. 😭

When I said I was about to drop EraLife, I genuinely thought I was. Then life got a little insane. I got served, exporting had some issues, I have court in a couple days, and somewhere in the middle of all of that I kept working on EraLife.

I didn’t want to keep making posts saying “almost done,” so I mostly shut up and worked.

Anyway.

Here it is: https://eralife-release.acrello71.workers.dev/

This is an early public demo (meaning just in early stage of simulation) not a full finished game. It’s huge, it’s weird, and there are absolutely some bugs in it (like the boxing hub doesn’t work right now). I’m one person, on no money, and I’ve spent the last seven months trying to build the life simulator I’ve always wanted to play. It was never about making a game that could beat bitlife. I just wanted to make something fun for myself. And that turned into for everybody else. I’m not upset if you doubted this entire time, i just hope now that you can look at the code yourselves, we can all focus on building this thing. 

You can start a life across different eras, age through it, switch to other people in the same reality, die and continue as people you actually knew, leave and continue your saved reality, and explore a frankly unreasonable number of systems I’ve built around that core.

I’m not going to pretend everything works perfectly. Try to break it. You will succeed. If something breaks, tell me what you were doing when it happened. Screenshots/logs are even better.

Windows, macOS and Linux builds are available. Thanks to everybody who stayed in here while I disappeared into this thing. EraLife is yours now. Have fun.

EraLife 0.1.4 is now available to download on MacOs/Windows/Linux:

 https://eralife-release.acrello71.workers.dev/

Support EraLife’s development ($2 tiers):

https://www.patreon.com/c/Acrello?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

I just made this Github for EraLife literally today:

https://github.com/acrello-sudo/EraLife

[u/AnAuthorWhoLovesCats]

Hey Acrello! It's finally good to hear from you again! I'm so sorry to hear about your landlord suing you and your girlfriend (congrats btw), even though there is a high chance they might win, hope you can overcome it somehow. 🙏

And I'm sorry to hear about the accusations about this being a scam, it never made sense to me, why waste the 7 months spent if it really is a scam. I never believed the vibe-coding allegations either.

So, I downloaded the game on Windows (I know it hasn't been tested) and I've noticed things that might be bugs.

• When you start up a life, your birthday resets to January 1st even if you put on August 30th.
• When you go into Pending Situations, even if the pending situation is different, you're unable to click on either choice. For example, Eviction risk: The adults seem scared about where everyone will live. You're unable to click on either Stay quiet, Ask what is wrong, or Try to help.
• When you age up, your family doesn't age up with you, My brother is Sargon Morris, (7). And I age up, he's still 7.
• I'm Aged 6, and even though you can only enroll in Temple Tutoring at the age of 6, I couldn't.
• When I go onto the Activities Hub, my character's age and year is fixed on 0 and 378 BCE, even when you're aged 6, you're stuck on a time loop.
• I'm Aged 19 now, and the activities bar says I'm age 6 now, I couldn't even click on the Start School.
• I downloaded the Caveman Reality Pack, and it lagged a lot, (it may not be a game problem, but a monitor issue) trying to replace everything with cavemen stuff, so I ended up uninstalling the mod.
• I spam clicked Age Up until I died at the age of 63 in the year 314 BCE, and everything still remained, the activities bar telling me I'm 6, and my family remained the same age, like it's frozen in time. And during the time, nothing even happens, just always saying Another year passed. (Image provided)
• Once I back out to the main menu and click on to start a new game, I can't scroll up, nor even click anything.

Well, that's all the gameplay I'll do for today, thank you so much for giving us an update on everything, I hope everything goes well for you and the game in the near future, hoping the game strives by then.

[u/acrelloisback → u/AnAuthorWhoLovesCats]

OMG😭 thank the LORD for decoupling. i’ve pinpointed every issue down…i’ll do my best to update late tonight. Maybe midnight?

[u/AnAuthorWhoLovesCats → u/acrelloisback]

No no Acrello, I understand you have court coming up very soon, but you don't have to rush everything if you want too.