The Company of Myself

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The Company of Myself
The Company of Myself screenshot.jpg
Screenshot of the game
Developer(s) Eli Piilonen
Platform(s) Browser, Flash
Release2010
Genre(s) Puzzle platformer
Mode(s) Single-player

The Company of Myself is a 2009 Flash platformer by Eli Piilonen featuring a hermit as the protagonist whose depressed inner thoughts appears as writing on the "walls" of the game. [1] Piilonen has stated that the "core intent [of the game] is to be half puzzle game and half character study". [2] It's been frequently cited as an early example of an art game and has received praise for how it deals with issues of mental health. [3] [4] [5] [6] Tom Fronczak of Destructoid called the game "brilliant". [1] It was included in Michael Rose's 2014 book "250 Indie Games You Must Play" [7] and has been frequently cited in video games research. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] Piilonen later released a prequel for the game called Fixation.

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  2. ↑ "The Company of Myself". 2darray.net. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  3. ↑ Salter, Anastasia (2014). Flash: building the interactive web. Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp. 108–109. ISBN   9780262028028.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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  6. ↑ Childs, Mark; Peachey, Anna (2013). Understanding learning in virtual worlds. London. p. 11. ISBN   9781447153702.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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