2/17/2023 0 Comments Alter ego game more bean dipThe game fascinates me, so, like my alter ego's dad's cherished electronic calculator, I cannot help but ruthlessly take it apart & have a look at what's going on in there. how things play about affects a bunch of stats (Intelligence, Confidence, Physical Health, Money, etc.) and states (Employed/Unemployed, Single/In a Relationship, etc.) and these will sometimes affect how things play out later on. You pick which vignette to do next with an interface that resembles picking up cards laid out on a table. in each phase you are presented with dozens of situations (total of about 400 in the game) and asked to choose how to handle them in a choose-your-own-adventure type way Life in Alter Ego is split into seven phases ( Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, Young Adulthood, Adulthood, Middle Age & Old Age). something about the HTML interface bugs me though. there is an online version available: which also has iPhone and Android app versions. There were two separate editions released, one with a male protagonist and the other with a female protagonist. Alter Ego for MS-DOS, C64 & Apple computers of the time was an ambitious attempt to simulate a human life from birth to grave
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