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For what it is worth, I don't think Jason has intentionally lied to the community or mislead us.   I think he started out planning on coming back to the game when the move was completely "over", so he could focus on coding again.   He never gave a concrete timespan for his hiatus, because it would depend on a lot of factors that were outside of his control.  I don't think Jason really considered just how long it would take to move across the country or if he would even want to go back to how things were before the move. 

At this point, it is pretty obvious development has stalled out.
Still, I don't think that necessarily means OHOL has been completely abandoned yet.  Jason did do a fairly involved Halloween special event this year.   We might get a few more updates next year, if we are lucky ... or we might not.   I wouldn't hold out hope for weekly updates or a satisfying end-game, of course.   

It would be nice to get an official goodbye from the developer when the time comes, but that might be too optimistic. Jason is not great about keeping people informed regarding the state of the game. 

For anyone who might have missed them, here is a collection of Jason's posts regarding his move:

jasonrohrer wrote:

We're in the process of moving from California to New Hampshire.

We bought a house in New Hampshire, and now we're spending a few months fixing it up before we move in.

Most of this involves planning stuff out, meeting with contractors, etc.  This past week, I pretty much spent all day, each day, doing that.

We're pretty close to having things planned out, and the contractors lined up.  Once that's all in motion, I'll have some down time, and I'll get back to fixing bugs.

Eventually, I'll spend several weeks actually moving, and after that, I'll be all set up with my drawing equipment again to work on more content for One Hour One Life.

https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … 62#p105362

jasonrohrer wrote:

I still haven't moved yet!

I'm finally back in CA now, packing, as of yesterday.

Remodeling takes a long time....  way longer than it should.

And we didn't do THAT much remodeling, by the way... just new wood floors and new tiles/appliances in the kitchen..... but that stuff took 4.5 months.

We're still not totally done (no counters or sink in the kitchen yet), but we're moving in.

I pick up the moving truck on May 29.

https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … 66#p106266

jasonrohrer wrote:

How much remodeling have you done, Dodge?

Also, it was a new floor in the entire house.  There were other moving parts, like a kitchen ventilation system, that had to be interleaved in the right order (like, before the kitchen tiles).  And this required coordination of various contractors, a few of whom ended up finishing their jobs several months behind schedule, and thus slowing down everyone else.

The wood floor itself took about 4 weeks to install.

The tile floor itself took about 2 weeks to install.

But the wood floor guy was booked for about two months out, and didn't start until the end of February.

https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … 87#p106287

jasonrohrer wrote:

I have been taking an extended break from OHOL to focus on other things.

You may have heard that my family and I fled California due to the compound effects of fires, crime, extreme covid lockdowns, riots, and continuously rising housing prices.

I made a good amount of money from OHOL (probably less than you think I made, especially considering five years of full-time work), but it was never quite enough to buy even a crappy house in Davis, CA.  We would essentially be going ALL IN by finally buying a house there.... all in on what, exactly?  Our kids hadn't been able to see their friends face-to-face for 6 solid months, and we were trapped inside our house for 7 weeks due to unbreathable wildfire air outside.  Meanwhile, people who were committing violent crimes were being released within hours (or not arrested at all---no room due to social distancing in the jails), and downtown Sacramento had a 10-block stretch that was completely boarded up for months, due to riots, just a few blocks from the state capitol.

Buying a crappy house in CA for way too much money no longer seemed like a wise all-in bet.

Our home life---our 3-year plan that had turned into a 9-year plan---had essentially fallen apart.

And we've spent the last year building back up a different home life, with a different long term plan, in New Hampshire.  We didn't QUITE escape the wildfire smoke, because the West Coast smoke was so bad this summer that it blew all the way to New Hampshire for a few days.  But nothing's boarded up, there are no riots, and our kids can see their friends freely.

Our new home life isn't quite 100% on track yet, but getting close.  I generally don't do well focusing on more than one big thing at a time, so I'm continuing to wait to get back to working on OHOL until things completely settle down and I can devote my full attention to it for a while.

In the mean time, I've been keeping myself feeling productive by cultivating Project December with two fingers while my other eight fingers focus on building home life.  I work on it a handful of hours per week, in a spare moment here and there.  I can't work on OHOL that way.... I need to sit down at a table and draw for four hours at a time.

But when I get back to it, here's the plan:

---Of course fix all the open bugs

---Do several months of bigger content updates

---Figure out a satisfying "endgame" of some kind.

https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … 37#p107237

jasonrohrer wrote:

Be nice to me, please.

Help me want to work on the game.

https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … 44#p107344

WumboJumbo wrote:

Again, you guys are just monkeys throwing shit at each other. By this point, we should've started a petition for Spoonwood to be permanently banned. Actually, it should've happened an extremely long time ago!

I wasn't disagreeing with Dodge, I don't think, at any point in this thread.  In all honesty, it was nice to have the interaction with him here.

Petitons also don't go well with bans.  That's tyranny of petitioners, instead of having a rule-based forum that is fair to people.

And from what i've seen so far "in next life" doesn't seem to be much more interesting in that aspect, but it's still very early and not even officially released so maybe could change.

jinbaili83 wrote:

Is this plan still valid ?

I'm going to take a look at it starting next week.

Spoonwood wrote:

No changes during this time period.

no official changes during this time period...

jasonrohrer wrote:

As I work toward my goal of making the largest and most comprehensive crafting game of all time---a true love letter to our civilized world, which is so full of all the amazing things that people make---64 foods is just the beginning.

It's 13 days short of being 18 months, a year and a half, later now.  The last food added to the game was cooked mutton with rub on June 27, 2020, when the above got posted.

64 foods is just the beginning???

Spoonwood wrote:

fug wrote:

It's literally no different than when spoon spams a thread about weekly updates.

Hell, this thread is probably in better faith as they're talking about something actually occurring vs leading people on with something known to not be happening.

The threads about weekly updates concern the section called "live-dev-changes".  I have never once said that a change was happening when it was not.  I only have referred to the title of the discord area.

Though maybe I should always clarify that "live-dev-changes" refers only to the name of the discord area in each of those posts.

This is what we call a joke.

I don't expect you to understand what a joke is.

So here is the definition:  a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.

Jokes aren't meant to be serious

Spoonwood half of what people say to you is a joke, yet you don't get it.

That's the funny part.

Spoonwood wrote:

Also, the "end game" for this game involving race restrictions makes little sense.

The endgame for OHOL is we all get sick of waiting for an update and leave?

Personally, I am VERY excited! 1.18!!!! Caves and Cliffs Part 2! BTW has anyone ever heard of minecraft? It's an old game that gets semi-regular updates. Anyone up for a multiplayer experience? We could rush a server or something. Hermitcraft style.

WumboJumbo wrote:

Dodge wrote:

get a life?

Dude, you're letting Spoonwood live rent-free in your head.

Uhm no, you take this way too seriously.

get a life?

Plus Jasons artwork looks like it was drawn by a kid.