Computerfriend
A downloadable game
Edit: a new, slightly different version of this game is playable at Misery Tourism (click fullscreen below the game window).
The year is 1999. The place is Godfield, Louisiana: the tech capital of the world, where the sky bleeds acid and the mud boils in the bayou. It’s time for your state-mandated digital therapy.
Computerfriend is a text-based interactive fiction game by Kit Riemer. 20-60 minute playtime, 6 endings. You can download it here or play it in your browser at the 2022 Spring Thing IF festival if you like.
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Development log
- misery tourismJun 30, 2022
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Really loved this game and as well as its expanded universe in Familiar! The tone, setting, and pacing were really something. I just published a review covering both titles in the newly released issue 11 of ChoiceBeat Interactive Fiction and VN zine.
Just finished reading; your review & discussion of choice-rot (which I enthusiastically support as a descriptor of my work) is terrific and thought provoking. I'll be sharing it around. Thank you!!
I loved this - brilliantly unsettling, visceral prose coupled with evocative graphics. Got ending 3/6 and very intrigued to try out the others!
:) thank you for playing, i'm glad you enjoyed it!
pretty weird therapy
(seriously thought this is really cool. evocative writing . played the misery tourism version though idk the differences)
hearing reports my browser is not quote "reputable." hate to see this kind of discrimination in the arts