Best One-sentence description of OHOL?

jasonrohrer · 2018-06-16 16:07:35

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?

aowen · 2018-06-16 16:57:36

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.

Spockulon · 2018-06-16 17:15:53

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.

startafight · 2018-06-16 17:17:58

Live, Laugh, Love, Grief.

Aurora Aurora · 2018-06-16 17:21:07

"Needs more incest."

WomanWizard · 2018-06-16 19:24:14

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.

TheRedBug · 2018-06-16 20:13:08

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.

Uncle Gus · 2018-06-16 21:00:55

How about: "F"

YAHG · 2018-06-17 01:40:20

Be a small part of something larger

Baker · 2018-06-17 02:57:34

You will die one way or the other.

yvanhooe · 2018-06-17 03:50:15

Child abandonment: the strategy game.

Anshin · 2018-06-17 04:26:55

https://www.savethechildren.ca

Save the Children

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

Alleria · 2018-06-17 04:36:15

Why work when you can carrot sponge

Realcooldude · 2018-06-17 04:48:30

Stab everyone with a knife!

Realcooldude · 2018-06-17 04:49:30

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

pein · 2018-06-17 05:13:03

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.

YAHG · 2018-06-17 05:38:15

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..

Realcooldude · 2018-06-17 06:30:56

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.

happynova · 2018-06-17 11:11:49

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.

wondible · 2018-06-17 11:40:09

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

FounderOne · 2018-06-17 12:13:01

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.

YAHG · 2018-06-17 14:41:48

Long run on sentences are shit marketing.

Lotus · 2018-06-17 22:04:24

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.

dana · 2018-06-17 22:20:28

How the heck do I do anything: The Simulation

sanchez · 2018-06-18 01:37:54

Staby stab stab

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