I had been doing some video game play research at I was very active in theirĬorporate think-tank. “I went back and forth frequently to Atari. His offer may have been to teach Atari, but the education went both
In my graduate studies, and I thought that they might be able to use meĪs a person who would be able to contribute some scientific knowledgeĪtari were convinced, and Favaro began consulting for them. “I loved pinball, and I loved computer games, so I contactedĪtari and told them I was considering studying the Psychology of Play His choice of studies would stand him in good stead, and deliver an Demonstrating an enviable degree of initiative and chutzpah Which is not to say he wasn’t above making school more “I was just a street kid from Brooklyn who happened to like Show, in the early 1980s Dr Peter Favaro was still a graduate student Mangement, or as the house psychologist for the Montel Williams chat Nowadays more likely to be found in a New York courthouseĪdvising on complex custody cases, running a seminar on anger Take off in a wild direction and along the way you might even learn Twisted version of you, and the goal was simply to experience life, The role you played was you, or at least a Manual as a ‘fantasy role-playing game’, Alter Ego had little to do Peacefully, or kicking and screaming? YOU decide. What if you had chosen differently in life? Edge looks at a game thatīegins with birth. By leaving gaps the player fills in their own detail, giving a suprisingly rich experience from very little.
One of the key design principles I love from Alter Ego is the use of the 'less is more' projective hypothesis. Was one of the subjects I studied at university, and it was incrediblyĮye-opening and had a major influence on how I think about the nature of reality and perception. Have shown the power of walking a few miles in other people's shoes. To be rather on the dry side for me but other Indie projects such as Thing that sounded most similar, Positech's Kudos, Life simulator, particularly in the Visual Novel genre. Hasn't) emerged, but there are now more spiritual successors to the This really allowed us to have a ramblingĬonversation that covered a fair bit more ground than I squeezed into Peter.") in New York over a Skype connection, back in the days when As a standard, UK non-discĭrive owning C64 user there was no danger I'd ever get to play itīefore the advent of emulation, but I immediately clicked with the Alter Ego ContextĪ review in Zzap! and it sounded incredible.
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