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 has 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. [14]

References

  1. 1 2 "Monday Mind Teaser: The Company of Myself". Destructoid. 27 April 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  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)
  4. ↑ "A medley of meanings: Insights from an instance of gameplay in League of Legends". Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology (1/2015): 228.
  5. ↑ Donnelly, Joe (16 August 2016). "These Games Explore the Struggle to Seek Psychological Help". Vice . Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  6. ↑ Childs, Mark; Peachey, Anna (2013). Understanding learning in virtual worlds. London. p. 11. ISBN   9781447153702.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ↑ Rose, Mike (2011). 250 indie games you must play. Boca Raton, FL. p. 162. ISBN   9781439875759.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ Demi̇Rbaş, Kerem Yavuz (6 August 2015). "DİJİTAL OYUNLARA "OYUN TÜRÜ" YAKLAŞIMLARININ SORUNLARI: "PLATFORM OYUNLARI" TÜRÜ ÖRNEĞİ". Selçuk Üni̇versi̇tesi̇ İleti̇şi̇m Fakültesi̇ Akademi̇k Dergi̇si̇. 9 (1): 363. doi:10.18094/si.05694 (inactive 12 July 2025).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
  9. ↑ Orsini Martinelli, Felipe; Armando Valente, Jose. Os Jogos Digitais Vistos Pelo Jogador: análise de aspectos narrativos (PDF). SBGames Proceedings of SBC (ISSN 2179-2259). Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  10. ↑ Andersen, Erik; O'Rourke, Eleanor; Liu, Yun-En; Snider, Richard; Lowdermilk, Jeffrey; Truong, David; Cooper, Seth; Popovic, Zoran (2012). "The Impact of Tutorials on Games of Varying Complexity". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington. pp. 59–68. doi:10.1145/2207676.2207687. ISBN   9781450310154. S2CID   2524148.
  11. ↑ Eurídice Cabañes, Eurídice; Rubio Méndez, María. "IDENTITY AND SIMULACRUM: THANK YOU MARIO, BUT YOUR IDENTITY IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE".
  12. ↑ Adellin, Riannatta; Khuan, Chen Tet; Gertrude, Leo David (2019). "Conceptual Framework Puzzle Game with High Replayability". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 1228 (1): 012070. Bibcode:2019JPhCS1228a2070A. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1228/1/012070 .
  13. ↑ Marinescu Nenciu, Alina Petra; Rughinis, Cosima (2015). "Every Day the Same Dream? Social Critique Through Serious Gameplay". 11th International Conference eLearning and Software for Education. Vol. 2. Bucharest. pp. 65–72. doi:10.12753/2066-026x-15-100. S2CID   257196140.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ↑ Donnelly, Joe (17 May 2023). "Getting help is hard – these games helped me make first contact with mental health professionals". GamesRadar+ . Archived from the original on 17 May 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
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