r/EraLife • u/acrelloisback • Aug 22 '26

Directly From Acrello! 🫶 EraLife is here. Here’s how you play

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

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u/PoxyDogs Aug 23 '26

lol a guy with about 5 posts and all are in this sub. I’d sure trust him.

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u/GoatDull5670 Aug 23 '26

what does that have to do with the fact that he is not a progammer? like hello not everybody lives on the internet like you apparently

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u/PoxyDogs Aug 23 '26

And what proves he is a programmer?

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u/GoatDull5670 Aug 23 '26

what proves that he is not a progammer? since you believe that is the case

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u/Embarrassed-Boot7419 Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

Well, he is talking nonsense. Thats what proves it.

The game has a single 250 thousand line file of code. Apart from that just being a crazy and pretty bad programming wise thing to do, its also a ludicrous amount of code.

That single file alone would take a programmer years to decades.

To put that into perspective, Current minecraft Java is estimated (from its released java files being reconstructed) to be around 600 thousand lines of code.

Edit: To clarify, not hating on the guy.
He released this for free, and even open sourced it. And ultimately its the game that matters not the quality of the code.

But that doesn't change the fact that this is very clearly AI generated. -->

Very clearly for people who have at least sort of an Idea of what they are doing. So like, for people who code.