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* VanityWindow: The map in the center of the screen is the only window which can't be hidden. It's also the window most likely to get in your way (especially if you're using a widescreen monitor)
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: A surprisingly decent amount for an edutainment game. Go ahead, deny your children the ability to go to school despite being rich. Go ahead, divorce your spouse and make him/her take all 6 of your kids. Go ahead, ruin that guy's life so you can get a few extra ''(insert currency here)''. Go ahead, leave the dying guy out on the street to rot.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: A surprisingly decent amount for an edutainment game. Go ahead, deny your children the ability to go to school despite being rich. [[RunningGag Go ahead, ahead]], divorce your spouse and make him/her take all 6 of your kids. [[RuleOfThree Go ahead, ahead]], ruin that guy's life so you can get a few extra ''(insert currency here)''. [[OverlyLongGag Go ahead, ahead]], leave the dying guy out on the street to rot.
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* DeathOfAChild: This is a game based on ''real life'', after all.
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* InfantImmortality: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] (see DownerEnding, above). [[RealityEnsues This game is based on real life, after all]].
** It is possible to die ''during birth''.
** It is possible to die ''during birth''.
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* [[GettingCrapPasttheRadar Getting Crap Past the Player]]: In the 2007 and 2010 version, if you're a infertile man, your fertile wife can still have [[ChocolateBaby babies]]...
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%% * [[GettingCrapPasttheRadar Getting Crap Past GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the Player]]: In future, please check the 2007 and 2010 version, if you're a infertile man, trope page to make sure your fertile wife can still have [[ChocolateBaby babies]]...example fits the current definition.
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Real Lives is an [[EdutainmentGame Edutainment]] RealLife RaisingSim developed by Educational Simulations, a company which [[CaptainObvious specializes in educational simulation games.]]
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Real Lives is an [[EdutainmentGame Edutainment]] RealLife RaisingSim developed by Educational Simulations, a company which [[CaptainObvious specializes in educational simulation games.]]
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[[AbandonWare The developer's website is now unfortunately defunct, and it can be very difficult to find a working copy of the game through less legitimate channels.]]
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A trial of the 2010 version can be downloaded from [[http://www.educationalsimulations.com/eval.php the developer's website.]]
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* GayOption: Sort of. You can't choose to be straight or gay (just like in RealLife!), but your character will randomly become exclusively interested only in members of the same sex...which means that it's impossible for your character to get married or have children. Unless they live in the Netherlands. If you turn down the first couple of gay romances, the game offers to rule out same-sex relationships.
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* GayOption: Sort of. You can't choose to be straight or gay (just like in RealLife!), gay, but your character will randomly become exclusively interested only in members of the same sex...which means that it's impossible for your character to get married or have children. Unless they live in the Netherlands. If you turn down the first couple of gay romances, the game offers to rule out same-sex relationships.
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* TheAce: Through customization it's possible to have a character who's maxed out every stat.
* AbusiveParents: A random event can occur where you're beaten by your mother or father. If you're lucky, you can seek help and they'll agree not to do it again. If you're not, well...
* BlackComedy: A lot of unintended humor can come from the random events. You can choose to give money to a beggar but he may decide to rob you of the same money he was going to get. You can get a message that you were raped shortly after receiving one that says that you were imprisoned. Your wife can have lots of children despite you being infertile. You can be passed up for a job as a beggar/scavenger of used goods due to your criminal conviction record. The list goes on.
* AbusiveParents: A random event can occur where you're beaten by your mother or father. If you're lucky, you can seek help and they'll agree not to do it again. If you're not, well...
* BlackComedy: A lot of unintended humor can come from the random events. You can choose to give money to a beggar but he may decide to rob you of the same money he was going to get. You can get a message that you were raped shortly after receiving one that says that you were imprisoned. Your wife can have lots of children despite you being infertile. You can be passed up for a job as a beggar/scavenger of used goods due to your criminal conviction record. The list goes on.
** Having a life in the Philippines and Indonesia can lead to all of those events happening, ''plus'' volcanic eruptions.
* DomesticAbuse: Another random event. The choices are similar to AbusiveParents event above.
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* GayOption: Sort of. You can't choose to be straight or gay (just like in RealLife!), but your character will randomly become exclusively interested only in members of the same sex...which means that it's impossible for your character to get married or have children. Unless they live in the Netherlands.
** In the '04 edition, at least, it seemed you started life as a bisexual. This Troper is quite certain she had a sequence of "Interesting Girl", "Interesting Girl", "Interesting GUY" at least a few times, and if you turn down the first couple of gay romances, the game offers to make you straight.
* [[GettingCrapPasttheRadar Getting Crap Past the Player]]: In the '10 version at least, if you're a infertile man, your fertile wife can still have [[ChocolateBaby babies]]...
** In the '04 edition, at least, it seemed you started life as a bisexual. This Troper is quite certain she had a sequence of "Interesting Girl", "Interesting Girl", "Interesting GUY" at least a few times, and if you turn down the first couple of gay romances, the game offers to make you straight.
* [[GettingCrapPasttheRadar Getting Crap Past the Player]]: In the '10 version at least, if you're a infertile man, your fertile wife can still have [[ChocolateBaby babies]]...
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* GayOption: Sort of. You can't choose to be straight or gay (just like in RealLife!), but your character will randomly become exclusively interested only in members of the same sex...which means that it's impossible for your character to get married or have children. Unless they live in the Netherlands.
** In the '04 edition, at least, it seemed you started life as a bisexual. This Troper is quite certain she had a sequence of "Interesting Girl", "Interesting Girl", "Interesting GUY" at least a few times, and ifNetherlands. If you turn down the first couple of gay romances, the game offers to make you straight.
rule out same-sex relationships.
* [[GettingCrapPasttheRadar Getting Crap Past the Player]]: In the'10 version at least, 2007 and 2010 version, if you're a infertile man, your fertile wife can still have [[ChocolateBaby babies]]...
** In the '04 edition, at least, it seemed you started life as a bisexual. This Troper is quite certain she had a sequence of "Interesting Girl", "Interesting Girl", "Interesting GUY" at least a few times, and if
* [[GettingCrapPasttheRadar Getting Crap Past the Player]]: In the
* TheIllegal: If you don't have enough money to legally emigrate to a country, you're given the option to sneak in illegally for just 1/10th of the money. Failure to get in will get you deported at best and killed at worst.
* ParentalAbandonment: You can leave your family at any given time, with no ill-effects in-game.
* TooDumbToLive: Every now and then, the game will tell you of a "somewhat risky" but profitable scheme that you can invest up to 3/4 of your savings into. You can guess what happens if you choose yes.
** Gameplay wise, it is possible for you or one of your family members to either be born or have an interest in someone who has zero intelligence, which makes them this trope.
** Gameplay wise, it is possible for you or one of your family members to either be born or have an interest in someone who has zero intelligence, which makes them this trope.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Not a lot of this, but it's there. Go ahead, divorce your spouse and make him/her take all 6 of your kids. Go ahead, ruin that guy's life so you can get a few extra ''(insert currency here)''. Go ahead, leave the dying guy out on the street to rot.
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Not a lot of this, but it's there.A surprisingly decent amount for an edutainment game. Go ahead, deny your children the ability to go to school despite being rich. Go ahead, divorce your spouse and make him/her take all 6 of your kids. Go ahead, ruin that guy's life so you can get a few extra ''(insert currency here)''. Go ahead, leave the dying guy out on the street to rot.
* WhatTheHellPlayer: As mentioned in the HeroicSacrifice entry, you can choose not to save your friend. If they manage to be saved by someone else, you'll get a message about how they were saved despite your cowardice. Of course they can also just flat out die, which causes a huge drop in your player character's conscience stat.
* WhatTheHellPlayer: As mentioned in the HeroicSacrifice entry, you can choose not to save your friend. If they manage to be saved by someone else, you'll get a message about how they were saved despite your cowardice. Of course they can also just flat out die, which causes a huge drop in your player character's conscience stat.
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Real Lives is an [[EdutainmentGame Edutainment]] RealLife RaisingSim developed by Educational Simulations, a company which [[CaptainObvious specializes in educational simulation games.]]
You play as...a person. Who? Well, that's up for the game to decide. When you first start up the game, it automatically generates a random character who, theoretically, could be any average person in just about any country (the website boasts 190 possible countries). Your objective is to get this person through life, from birth to death. Hopefully dying of old age instead of, say, being tortured in prison.
Oh, yeah. Since this is supposed to be a RealLife simulator, it tries its hardest to present how life is actually lived in ''(insert country here)''. That includes the bad stuff: being permanently paralyzed after an assault, having nearly all your possessions stolen from you, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking your girlfriend breaking up with you...]] The difficulty is determined largely by which country your character lives in: a rich first-world country (for example, the US or UK) is considerably easier to live in than, say, China or India.
To further help the "education" part (after all, this was meant to be played at schools), ''Real Lives'' also includes random facts about the country your character lives in. Some facts have a...quite dubious educational value. (For example: "Americans watch and play many types of sports.")
The actual game begins right after your birth, and, at first, there's nothing to do except press "Age A Year" and watch the [[RandomEvent random events]] happen. But as you get older, you are given more control, being able to go to school, find a job, start your own business, pursue romance, and have children.
A trial of the 2010 version can be downloaded from [[http://www.educationalsimulations.com/eval.php the developer's website.]]
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!!''Real Lives'' provides examples of:
* CharacterCustomization: As well as using the randomly generated characters, it's possible to create your own. You pick a name (from a drop down list, don't expect to name your kid [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]), gender, country, city, urban or rural, and personal attributes. The only thing you can't control is your family. Later on, you can also choose your characters' interests.
* CrapsackWorld: Sure can feel like this sometimes. The RandomEvent %s can stack up on you, leading to situations like Afghanistan being pounded with ''seven'' massive earthquakes and four wars in a 20-year period.
** Or Thailand being hit by floods ''every single year.''
* DifficultyLevels: Not really, but some countries are much easier to have a good life in than others.
* DownerEnding: [[http://kotaku.com/5521675/talk-about-depressing "You have been murdered at age 4."]] Also a ''lot'' of other ways to die (starvation/malnourishment, tortured in prison, terminal cancer...).
** "You have died trying to save the life of a friend."
* DrivenToSuicide: A possible cause of death.
* EdutainmentGame
* FreewareGame: The 2004 edition (the 2010 edition is a commercial product).
* GayOption: Sort of. You can't choose to be straight or gay (just like in RealLife!), but your character will randomly become exclusively interested only in members of the same sex...which means that it's impossible for your character to get married or have children. Unless they live in the Netherlands.
** In the '04 edition, at least, it seemed you started life as a bisexual. This Troper is quite certain she had a sequence of "Interesting Girl", "Interesting Girl", "Interesting GUY" at least a few times, and if you turn down the first couple of gay romances, the game offers to make you straight.
* [[GettingCrapPasttheRadar Getting Crap Past the Player]]: In the '10 version at least, if you're a infertile man, your fertile wife can still have [[ChocolateBaby babies]]...
* HeroicSacrifice: As mentioned above, you can die trying to save your friend. Unlike many aspects of the game, you ''do'' get a choice in this, and you're not guaranteed to die.
* InfantImmortality: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] (see DownerEnding, above). [[RealityEnsues This game is based on real life, after all]].
** It is possible to die ''during birth''.
* KarmaMeter: Your responses to various scenarios (Will you steal a car? Tell a white lie?) affects your "conscience." You can also improve it by volunteering or through social and political activism.
* RandomEvent: The entire game is made up of these. There's nothing stopping the same event happening twice in a row, either. "51 years old: Car was stolen. ''(buys new car)'' 52 years old: Car was stolen." Oh, God''damn''it.
* RaisingSim
* SimulationGame
* VanityWindow: The map in the center of the screen is the only window which can't be hidden. It's also the window most likely to get in your way (especially if you're using a widescreen monitor)
* VideoGameCaringPotential: It's surprising how much you can feel it when your virtual "favorite" sibling dies.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Not a lot of this, but it's there. Go ahead, divorce your spouse and make him/her take all 6 of your kids. Go ahead, ruin that guy's life so you can get a few extra ''(insert currency here)''. Go ahead, leave the dying guy out on the street to rot.
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You play as...a person. Who? Well, that's up for the game to decide. When you first start up the game, it automatically generates a random character who, theoretically, could be any average person in just about any country (the website boasts 190 possible countries). Your objective is to get this person through life, from birth to death. Hopefully dying of old age instead of, say, being tortured in prison.
Oh, yeah. Since this is supposed to be a RealLife simulator, it tries its hardest to present how life is actually lived in ''(insert country here)''. That includes the bad stuff: being permanently paralyzed after an assault, having nearly all your possessions stolen from you, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking your girlfriend breaking up with you...]] The difficulty is determined largely by which country your character lives in: a rich first-world country (for example, the US or UK) is considerably easier to live in than, say, China or India.
To further help the "education" part (after all, this was meant to be played at schools), ''Real Lives'' also includes random facts about the country your character lives in. Some facts have a...quite dubious educational value. (For example: "Americans watch and play many types of sports.")
The actual game begins right after your birth, and, at first, there's nothing to do except press "Age A Year" and watch the [[RandomEvent random events]] happen. But as you get older, you are given more control, being able to go to school, find a job, start your own business, pursue romance, and have children.
A trial of the 2010 version can be downloaded from [[http://www.educationalsimulations.com/eval.php the developer's website.]]
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!!''Real Lives'' provides examples of:
* CharacterCustomization: As well as using the randomly generated characters, it's possible to create your own. You pick a name (from a drop down list, don't expect to name your kid [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]), gender, country, city, urban or rural, and personal attributes. The only thing you can't control is your family. Later on, you can also choose your characters' interests.
* CrapsackWorld: Sure can feel like this sometimes. The RandomEvent %s can stack up on you, leading to situations like Afghanistan being pounded with ''seven'' massive earthquakes and four wars in a 20-year period.
** Or Thailand being hit by floods ''every single year.''
* DifficultyLevels: Not really, but some countries are much easier to have a good life in than others.
* DownerEnding: [[http://kotaku.com/5521675/talk-about-depressing "You have been murdered at age 4."]] Also a ''lot'' of other ways to die (starvation/malnourishment, tortured in prison, terminal cancer...).
** "You have died trying to save the life of a friend."
* DrivenToSuicide: A possible cause of death.
* EdutainmentGame
* FreewareGame: The 2004 edition (the 2010 edition is a commercial product).
* GayOption: Sort of. You can't choose to be straight or gay (just like in RealLife!), but your character will randomly become exclusively interested only in members of the same sex...which means that it's impossible for your character to get married or have children. Unless they live in the Netherlands.
** In the '04 edition, at least, it seemed you started life as a bisexual. This Troper is quite certain she had a sequence of "Interesting Girl", "Interesting Girl", "Interesting GUY" at least a few times, and if you turn down the first couple of gay romances, the game offers to make you straight.
* [[GettingCrapPasttheRadar Getting Crap Past the Player]]: In the '10 version at least, if you're a infertile man, your fertile wife can still have [[ChocolateBaby babies]]...
* HeroicSacrifice: As mentioned above, you can die trying to save your friend. Unlike many aspects of the game, you ''do'' get a choice in this, and you're not guaranteed to die.
* InfantImmortality: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] (see DownerEnding, above). [[RealityEnsues This game is based on real life, after all]].
** It is possible to die ''during birth''.
* KarmaMeter: Your responses to various scenarios (Will you steal a car? Tell a white lie?) affects your "conscience." You can also improve it by volunteering or through social and political activism.
* RandomEvent: The entire game is made up of these. There's nothing stopping the same event happening twice in a row, either. "51 years old: Car was stolen. ''(buys new car)'' 52 years old: Car was stolen." Oh, God''damn''it.
* RaisingSim
* SimulationGame
* VanityWindow: The map in the center of the screen is the only window which can't be hidden. It's also the window most likely to get in your way (especially if you're using a widescreen monitor)
* VideoGameCaringPotential: It's surprising how much you can feel it when your virtual "favorite" sibling dies.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Not a lot of this, but it's there. Go ahead, divorce your spouse and make him/her take all 6 of your kids. Go ahead, ruin that guy's life so you can get a few extra ''(insert currency here)''. Go ahead, leave the dying guy out on the street to rot.
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