Computerfriend
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Author(s): Kit Riemer
Genre: Science Fiction
Language: en
First Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Rating: 4.0 (based on 25 ratings)


ABOUT THE STORY

  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.


EXTERNAL LINKS

  Download on itch.io <https://slugzuki.itch.io/computerfriend>

  Play Online <https://www.springthing.net/2022/play_online/Computerfriend/compf.html>

  Author Interview with Caroline Delbert <https://medium.com/@cdelbert/kit-riemers-well-researched-slightly-unhinged-computerfriend-7879ae4552c7>
    Posted on Medium.

  Author's Postmortem <https://intfiction.org/t/computerfriend-postface-reviews/55931>
    Posted on intfiction.org.


EDITORIAL REVIEWS

  Choicebeat Magazine
  Computerfriend, Familiar, and the Choice-Rot Sensibility <https://www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/choicebeat-issue-11-xp8olf3tk5/full-view.html>
  > I think Computerfriend and its companion Familiar exemplify some of my
  > favorite tendencies in contemporary independent games, the "choice-rot"
  > bleeding edge: a focus on inner worlds, a stark confrontation with the
  > miseries of contemporary knowledge work/therapy/romance/everyday life, a
  > black humor and exaggerated comedy of so-called therapeutic methods, and the
  > possibilities for poetic revolt, erotic release, or marvelous escapism.
  > Highly recommended for freaks and the freak-adjacent.
  > 
  > --MindApe in Choicebeat Magazine, Issue 11, pages 18-20