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Bryce
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| Post #1: 26th Feb 2013 11:22 PM | |
So, this game...I founded it and it's called Alter Ego.
Basically it's a game designed for you to start life from the beginning and make choices along the way. What you choose to do will determine personality qualities about you and will change the outcome of your future.
I spent the past hour and a half that I should have been doing homework playing this game and...well, it was an hour and a half completely wasted- I was confronted by someone in a car looking for help and asking me to get in his car to find one of my friends and, sticking to the whole don't interact with strangers rule I learned from my parents, I told him "I cannot do that." Needless to say, he has never heard of "no means no" and I was kidnapped, tortured, and killed...what an awful way to end.
I also got poisoned as a baby which was a ton of fun...my doctor report said I was smart but an unhealthy baby which sucks, but eh, I blame the parenting.
It's a good time passer and just interesting all around.
SO!!! My proposal, FE friends, is that we all play through the game and as we do, we explain our happenings and stories throughout the game. It could be a ton of fun to see all the random crap that happens throughout the game and to see the different paths people to take and where they wind up!!
Will you be a lawyer? Will you be a business owner? Will you forever live in your parent's basement being a leech on life?
Join me and play!!!! =D
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| Post #2: 26th Feb 2013 11:24 PM | |
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While I was supposed to be writing an essay last night, I happened to stumble across a game called Alter Ego. If you'd like to try it, here's the link:
Alter Ego
What this basically is is a simulation of your entire life, presenting you with a really astronomical series of choices that will affect your future development as a person. (Since my essay was about the development of self, I decided that tooling around with this for a while would count as doing 'research'.)
For my maiden voyage, I decided to try and play as close to myself as possible, just to see what would happen.
I was pretty interested to see how the game would interpret my personality choices, since I routinely manage to bend personality tests into pretzel shapes without actually intending to do so. (No joke. When I was eighteen, I actually took a standardized personality test from a professional neuropsychologist. After about 150 questions, which I did answer completely seriously and to the best of my ability, what I got back was a sheet of paper telling me that the computer had analysed my answers and determined that I was lying. So apparently as far as standardized testing is concerned, I'm not a real person.)
With this in mind, I wanted to see how well this game could accommodate AlterRob.
AlterRob had an interesting life. At the beginning of the game, he was issued a personality test. Keeping the above anecdote in mind, AlterRob attempted to game the system, and openly admitted that he would not be taking the personality test seriously, then proceeded to lie on every single question after that. He refused to come out of the womb until he was forcibly removed, because, hey, it was warm and comfy, and free food. Following this, baby AlterRob basically developed randomly, as a result of the game not letting me choose mood/action combinations like, "Angrily fall asleep," "aggressively don't notice the dog" and "passively hit the other child in the face", forcing me to try other things. AlterRob was not what you'd call a prodigy, managing to master only the skills of manipulation and standing up, without ever apparently learning to crawl, figure out what a mirror was, or get over his fear of strangers. Though he totally had his parents wrapped around his chubby little finger, AlterRob wasn't always so successful. Other children stole his toys and abused his niceness, then his pet goldfish died and his mother stole his stuffed bunny and never gave it back. Oh, and then he was hospitalized for severe gastro-intestinal burns after drinking an entire bottle of cleaning solvent.
Luckily, AlterRob survived this particular adventure, and successfully transitioned into nursery school, where he was afraid of all of the other children and spent a lot of time crying. He was forced to help with household chores, despite his fervent wish to stay inside and watch cartoons. This development ultimately proved to be a mistake on the part of AlterDad, because while gathering sticks, AlterRob was kidnapped and tortured to death by a child molester.
Needless to say, this was a pretty disturbing result, and not just for the reasons you might think. See, as a three-year-old, I apparently went wandering downtown all by myself for a few hours, and was apparently completely unfazed when the police showed up. Apparently this just goes to show that I'm such an improbable person that all parallel-universe versions of me tend to die right out of the starting gate.
I'm going to take another run at it, as "Michelle," the name my parents were going to use if I had turned out as a girl. We'll see how FemRob turns out. |
Little Late Bryce | "So, uh, what are we saying here? If we save LA from a nuclear bomb, then you and I can get together for dinner and a movie?"
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Dyl
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| Post #3: 26th Feb 2013 11:25 PM | |
At the time I played and took too long get married and just lived out my life alone and depressed. | "So, uh, what are we saying here? If we save LA from a nuclear bomb, then you and I can get together for dinner and a movie?"
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Dyl
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| Post #4: 26th Feb 2013 11:26 PM | |
My fiance got out of our engagement. I was distraught | "So, uh, what are we saying here? If we save LA from a nuclear bomb, then you and I can get together for dinner and a movie?"
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Bryce
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| Post #5: 26th Feb 2013 11:28 PM | |
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| At the time I played and took too long get married and just lived out my life alone and depressed. |
How fitting!!
And Rob posted that without any credit; I made the game... | | |
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| Post #6: 26th Feb 2013 11:33 PM | |
I love Choose your own adventure style text games. I'll give it a go. | |
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| Post #7: 26th Feb 2013 11:37 PM | |
I tried it when Rob posted it, and just started through again. I get bored with infancy and quit. (I'm sure that's probably not a good sign) Do you actually do all the phases or skip ahead.
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Curtis
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| Post #8: 26th Feb 2013 11:38 PM | |
Figures | |
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Curtis
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| Post #9: 26th Feb 2013 11:38 PM | |
STARTING EARLY | |
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Teos
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| Post #10: 26th Feb 2013 11:38 PM | |
I love that game! |  |
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Bryce
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| Post #11: 26th Feb 2013 11:41 PM | |
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I tried it when Rob posted it, and just started through again. I get bored with infancy and quit. (I'm sure that's probably not a good sign) Do you actually do all the phases or skip ahead.
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Ha I went through the phases and after a certain point it said I reached the next stage of life....where I died...at like age 4.
Anyways, you can skip ahead. I'm not sure if it would simulate for you or if you'd lose out on gaining characteristics and skills and would just stay an infant level person as you got older. You could give it a go, but you don't have to do all the categories.
Also, each one represents a different skill set or opportunity to raise that asset so there might also be a strategy to which ones you pick. I haven't figured it out yet. | | |
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Bryce
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| Post #12: 26th Feb 2013 11:42 PM | |
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I sprinkled the crumbs and when it told me I would pay for the consequences when someone found the mess to clean up, I said it made me feel guilty and I'm pretty sure the game called me a coward. | | |
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Curtis
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| Post #13: 26th Feb 2013 11:50 PM | |
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I sprinkled the crumbs and when it told me I would pay for the consequences when someone found the mess to clean up, I said it made me feel guilty and I'm pretty sure the game called me a coward. |
I sprinkled the crumbs and it said no one would find the mess for awhile and that made me happy. It said this was a key moment of my development | |
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Curtis
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| Post #14: 26th Feb 2013 11:51 PM | |
I just killed my fish and hid the body. | |
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| Post #15: 26th Feb 2013 11:54 PM | |
I just found my hand, brb | |
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