Design clothes for a living, or play your football matches in 3D. And a year doesn't just pass anymore: things happen in it, and you decide what to do about them. Here's everything that changed.
Tap the clocks at the top of the screen and your year opens as a single day. Everything that takes your time is a block as tall as the hours it takes: sleep, school or work, getting there, meals, lessons.
Tap a block and you're shown where to change it. The hours nobody has claimed yet sit at the bottom of the day.
A round ? sits beside the year button. Each press walks you through one part of the game: your time, the people in your life, school, cars, houses and more. A red dot means there's a part you haven't seen yet.
A new life now starts with a single card on the day you're born. After that, the year button takes you straight to your first day of school. The childhood dream is gone.
The year school starts, your locker is waiting with a blank nameplate and a sticker for every subject. Tap one and you're walked to the place where subjects are picked, so you can find it again later.
Moving, dropping and swapping cards on the study board doesn't cost time anymore. Only dealing a new hand does. A carefully arranged year gets a good grade much more easily, and the board shows you around the first time you open it.
Start your own label. Pick a cut, then draw the print on it pixel by pixel. The more care you put into a look, the better it scores.
Put your looks into a spring and an autumn collection, choose Atelier or Line and a price, and book a show to put it on the runway. Celebrities in the front row can make a night.
License a collection to stores and they make it and pay you a royalty on every piece. Or make it yourself, sell it online and open your own shop. The bar under the rail shows what each door will sell before you sign anything.
A season is 12 matchdays now, with a derby, a cup night and a decider among them. Play a match, simulate it or rest. Keep your form and fitness up to stay in the team, and if your club goes down, you go down with it. More on the footballer career.
The big nights are yours to play. Each one is a few attacks in a full stadium: run, pass, lob it over their heads, drop a shoulder and shoot. Defenders get their own game, where you tackle and slide to win the ball back.
On a phone you play with a stick and buttons. On a computer the keys are drawn on screen.
Can't afford a microphone, a fashion kit or your first two collections? The bank will lend you the money, right from the career's own screen.
Every year brings something new. The boiler dies in January. The kitchen floods. A friend wants to borrow your car, a parent needs looking after, a stranger knocks on your door with food.
Each event is a card with a picture and a few answers, and every answer shows what it costs before you pick it.
Your friends notice what you buy, and they buy things too. Show off a new car and someone might go and get a better one. Find fault with theirs and the friendship takes the hit. You can also ask a friend with a car for a ride.
People only turn against you because of something that happened, and you'll have seen it on a card. Partners and classmates don't drift into hating you on their own anymore. A best friend you ignore for years will tell you they've given up.
A life starts in the hospital. Tap the lungs in time to take your first breaths, then cry. After that, the next dream hangs from a mobile over your crib and you pick which one comes next.
Teenagers get a first love, a first kiss and a first drink, and you decide how each one goes. Saying not yet is allowed. Homework in your second year at school is a paper collage you put together, or forget and leave to your parents.
New parts of the game introduce themselves as events. A broken toy, the clubs at school, a paper round, the job board at 16 and your first car each arrive as a card that opens the screen it's about.
Your job is a payslip now: pay, grade, how you're doing and what next year pays. The next grade sits underneath with what it asks for. Your colleagues are on the slip too, and you can talk to them from there.
Every job has a performance score. Push it with extra hours and you're promoted, with a raise of at least 15%. Let it slide for two years and you can be let go. Each year you choose whether work comes first or your life does.
Design your character before you start. Pick a figure from the line-up, then a name, a country, a birth year, a skin tone and the colours you wear. It's behind the button in the corner of the start screen.
44 outfits, designer editions, watches and chains. Buy something once and wear it whenever you like. Dressing well makes you more attractive, and your job's uniform is yours to wear too.
Anyone can bank inspiration now, from their first walk at six. Walks and books add to it, and from 16 it grows by itself, for any career.
Buy a garage on its own, use it or rent it out. You can buy a car with nowhere to put it, and it waits on the street. Houses come with garage spaces, and you can build more.
Front, rear and all-wheel drive cars feel different on the mountain road. You can fit aftermarket traction control to a car that didn't come with it.
More than one store of the same kind can sell your collection. They share the shoppers, so each sells less than it would alone, and every extra one costs your label some prestige.
A life you started before 1.4 carries on where you left it. The game has moved on since: see what's new in 1.5.
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