A farming sim based around not having enough hours in the day to do everything. Days last 10 seconds and you have to plant seeds, maintain crops, harvest, buy seeds and some gifts to give your loved one with the goal of progressing your relationship enough to accomplish your life goals. Make sure to remember to collect your tools each day or you’ll have to spend half the day going back for em!

In Life is Fleeting you cannot die. When you accomplish your life goals and complete the game, you can see how much money you’ve earned, how many crops you’ve harvested and how many days you’ve lived on the farm.

The whole idea of this game is to take a relaxing farm sim and add a slightly more frantic nature to things while still maintaining chill vibes and simplicity. When I saw the theme “10 seconds” this for whatever reason is what came to mind. I’ve been needing a little more peace recently and this felt like the perfect thing for me to work on.

If I had a little more time I would definitely create a longer main song to play along with and songs for the title and win screens. I would also animate the player’s love interest/partner and clean up sprites and give the player character a redo but I’m quite happy with it. Most of all, the buildings and fences would have collisions enabled but at the very least, 10 seconds a day makes it a little less noticable!

My confidence as a game dev has been rather low for a long time now so I’m just hoping to have made something half decent. At the very least, I never thought I’d be able to complete a game jam entry within 2 days and I managed it in 32 hours!

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