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.

Alter ego game family