This scene is described very simply, and you are walked through it step by step, one emotion at a time and one thought and reaction at a time. I wish more vignettes were like the dog incident which is described in detail in Jimmy’s article. (I did read one comment to Jimmy’s article that suggests that there are more out there who tried to recreate their own lives.) T o make it possible for the player to identify himself with the character it is important that the language, description, and decision possibilities are age appropriate and somewhat realistic.
Y ou try to live it, whether by trying to recreate your actual life experiences like me or by playing someone else like Jimmy. Alter Ego is in my eyes a serious game, meaning you don’t just play it thoughtlessly. The other part of my Infancy and Childhood problem was the inability of the author to convince me I was an infant or a child. Of course, I could just have accepted the fact that I am not 100 percent sure of what decision I would have made as a one-year-old child - it is just a game - but I was on a mission.
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These issues led to uncertainty on my part on how to decide in Alter Ego during the Infancy and early Childhood phases. And once the changes are tightly incorporated into our personality it is hard to imagine that we were ever any other way. This shows that psychological development is slow and unconscious. Logic tells me it happened after I started in medical school, but memory suggests I already knew them before. But these terms had been a part of my daily language for so long that I couldn’t even remember when I started using them. An example of how this can even happen to an adult: when I still was a medical student and I wanted to share some of my new-found knowledge with friends and family, I noticed that I used some medical terms they didn’t understand. Another difficulty that I experienced was the inability to remember how to think like a child. Furthermore, I am not always certain about my exact age when a given event occurred. So, I am very selective in my memories, but I always believe myself in the right. I also remember that I was one of the “smart kids.” For every stupid thing I did I had a logical reason, and every time it didn’t work out there was a logical explanation (do these words sound familiar to anyone?). I got hit by a car, which wasn’t too bad because I didn’t have to go to kindergarten that day. I started in kindergarten, which I hated.
My personal memories start at around age 3 to 4. The first part is my own inability to remember that far back in time, which I can’t blame the author for. The next problem I had in the Infancy and Childhood phases can be divided into two parts, though they are connected to each other. Jimmy, on the other hand - and I am not sure how much psychology you should read into this - just didn’t want to come out, trying to push his luck with both his and his mother’s health. But at the same time, I could enforce my plan of recreating my real life and be born early. So, I had some difficulties relating to the question of do I want to be born now or later. Consciousness in a human starts several years after birth, and a lot of people haven’t even learned to understand the consequences of their decisions by the time of their death. Hence, my first problem was that I had to make decisions as a fetus. The whole game is about making decisions in life and living with the consequences. And it all started when I still was a fetus in my mother’s womb. My life certainly didn’t turn out as I expected either. And now I must tell the whole world that my husband did not stick to the plan for very long, but jumped on the first girl that was presented to him by the game. Jimmy and I agreed to try to recreate our current life and then see where it leads in old age. After all, Jimmy had already let me talk to Eliza, and that meeting didn’t turn out too well! But Alter Ego has a changeable story, a more advanced interaction level, and a real-life feeling… I thought! Of course, I knew about the limitations a game like this has. I thought the concept was ingenious: a psychology game where you make choices in your life and then you see the outcome. And I have to admit that I was quite intrigued when Jimmy told me all about it. Alter Ego is one of the games we played most recently. There is a certain beauty to playing old computer games, especially if your gaming partner is a big enthusiast like my Jimmy. I should have another feature article for you all soon…) Patreon subscribers: this one is of course a freebie. (I know I’ve kicked this poor game around a lot already, but my wife Dorte has some strong opinions of her own about it that she wanted to share.