Alter
a game about grappling with the way memory changes, how your memory affects who you are, and how it can be okay if you're different because your memory doesn't reflect reality, that your memory no matter how different from reality is your reality
Some time just before 2020, I started thinking about this game. In early 2020, I was hiking a mountain with my dog when I started drafting it using speech-to-text, unsure if the cell reception would cut out. For my birthday in 2021, I made a single page version. It's kind of a shitty alpha, playtestable but missing clarification and better words.
I keep failing to write the reflection bit in a way that communicates to players the whole bit about memory changing changing you, changing your reality, your reality is just as real as anyone else's, your reality is just as real as what actually physically happened. Alter is about faulty memory, like most of my games. It's particularly focused on grappling with memory as reality and learning to accept that—so maybe you can better understand or be understood when reality, memory, and others' memories don't line up.
Anyways, here's the single page version of Alter
