Quiet Life

made by VDZ in 48 hours for
Ludum Dare 31 - 'Entire Game on One Screen'

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The world is calm and peaceful. There are no enemies around,
nothing around you poses a threat to your life...and you're
starving to death, rapidly.

Starting from nothing, try to build and craft to maintain a
(somewhat resembling) stable food supply to survive for as
long as possible. Then try to do the same as winter takes
away most of your options of getting food. And if you somehow
manage to survive even that, every new year will make you get
hungry faster. How long can you survive?

(Note: Everything except the sound and base rules (sorry, ran
 out of time) is fully moddable; you can replace all graphics,
 rewrite all item and tile scripts and even add your own (and
 change the map generation script to spawn them).)

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Quiet Life is a Windows-only game using .NET 4 and XNA
Framework 4. If you picked the download with them included, their
installers are in this folder. If not, you can get them here:

.NET Framework 4:
https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17851
XNA Framework 4:
https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20914


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Controls:

Arrow keys, WASD, Numpad, Home/End/PgUp/PgDown - Move (8-directional)
Z - Use held item or interact with object under you
X - Pick up item from ground/swap held item with ground/drop held item

F or Alt-Enter - Toggle fullscreen mode
Escape - Quit the game

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No online high scores this time, unfortunately. Maybe in a later version.

The sound is also kind of bad and there's no music; I'll probably remedy
this in a later version.

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Some tips:

- Interact with a tree trunk to get 'Branch'. Combine it with 'Stone' to
  get the 'Stone Axe', a very important item. Many interactions will work
  like this.
  
- Many items, among which all kinds of food, decay if left on the ground.
  They will not decay when held, and in fact the decay timer is reset when
  you pick up the item.
  
- It's possible to craft wooden floors (and walls). Stuff left on wooden
  floors decays four times as slowly as it would normally decay.

- Don't kill the sheep immediately. After some time, the sheep will
  reproduce (somehow, despite no other sheep being in the area). If there
  are no sheep left, no new ones will be born!
  
- Fire destroys everything except raw food items, which will be roasted.
  Roasted items will be destroyed by fire, though!

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This game is public domain. Feel free to do whatever you want with it.
Source code can be found at: http://www.vdzserver.org/ld31/

Entry page:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=7284