Basically Capitalism

You can still gain the fame for the stunt if you die in it - one of life's mysteries xD

I know the feeling. Well, of the puberty bit. Not the millionaire at 8 (or indeed 29) bit lmao

Thanks for playing!

I've learnt that this game, in its early stages, definitely promotes a life of "well better see if I can fail the Grand Canyon jump just to end this lifetime of overflowing happiness and obscene poker tournament victory" 😅

Thanks for playing! Definitely going to be expanding all aspects of it in the future including better job options etc.

Thanks for playing 😄 The happiness thing is a glitch - I didn't put the max check in enough places, so certain things will reset it to 100% but most normal play won't xD And yeah, the poker is definitely unbalanced!

I definitely have big plans for the game going forward - it's designed in an extremely modular way in the backend so I'd like to give it a bunch of extra interactivity (instead of text poker, you'd have some form of actual poker, etc) as well as obviously expanding on a lot of its ideas and fixing its issues.

You can't die of old age - I wanted to include this, but it went from "the older you are, the more susceptible to illness you are" to "I don't have time to implement illness properly, I'll just cap it at 100" to "I don't have time to cap it at 100" xD Running out of health is the only way you can die, and iirc, the only ways of doing this are maintaining a lack of happiness for many years or failing the health check on a stunt.

(If you do happen to want to keep playing, it autosaves every year start, so you should be able to resume from age 69!)

Thank you for playing! Yeah, absolutely, there are balancing issues here - artifact of a lot of the "activities" being the last thing I added xD I'm definitely going to be filling out the game to a massive degree in the future.

The game does already have a death state, but it can only really happen if you run out of health, or a stunt goes wrong. But it's a fairly plain single message right now - love your idea of a post-death life journal, I'll definitely investigate that!

Thank you very much for playing and for your insights! 😄

Absolutely want to make everything more in depth in the full version whenever it happens. One of my goals will be to make the game a lot slower (at least in the adulthood phase), so you can more effectively micromanage time, specialise your attributes, and then see far deeper and more involved activities that broadly depend/rely on your specialties. There's only a tiny whiff of that in the GM48 version.

And the >100% happiness is a bug! The game doesn't check if they've underflowed/overflowed frequently enough (they may literally only tie to year end or certain activities, can't remember) - until about two hours before I "finished", there were no events that even truly impacted happiness, so there will be a plethora of small oversights. I'm surprised nobody's found a crash yet honestly xD

Yeah, anything that becomes available as an adult was something I added very, very late into GM48 - at the end of day 1, the game only had content up to age 1 from how long the back end/framework took me, so even just getting enough in for up to 18 was a little more rushed than I'd have liked it to be. Including balancing. 😅

Thanks for playing, glad you liked it! Sorry to hear about the stunt, they can go wrong sometimes.

And I apologise if you Googled "meconium". 😅