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About the Story
A contractor assigned to handle bug reports for a wearable mood-regulation device becomes unwitting witness to trauma and crime.
Awards
Nominee, Best Writing - 2018 XYZZY Awards
46th Place - Interactive Fiction Top 50 of All Time (2019 edition)
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating:   Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
This is a complex Twine-and-Javascript based game that reproduces the help-desk environment from IT. You are given a bunch of tickets or help requests to address. You can dismiss them, respond to them, rank their severity, etc.
But instead of normal IT, you're troubleshooting a device that creates impulses in others.
As you progress, your performance is evaluated, and others might respond to you. The story slowly splays out.
It's an odd story, too. Like Morayati's other works regarding technological dystopias (Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory, Take), the game explores uncomfortable parts of the human condition.
The game takes real-life issues (like the below-minimum-wage oppression of gig jobs like Mechanical Turk, having to buy cheap knock-offs of products that can harm you, workplace harassment, etc.) which people have gradually become numb too and puts them in a startling new light by applying them to new situations.
If you liked this work, I strongly recommend the two other games I mentioned earlier.
1 Off-Site Review
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
But what I particularly like about the system in Human Errors is the way it combines the guided and the open-ended, the effective and the reflective choices. If you choose to close an issue, it goes away, is no longer your problem. If you write an email to a user, you get a brief time — enough to type a short sentence or two — to type whatever you want before the text box fades to “Sent.” It’s not expressive in the sense of a parser input, because you’re not constructing a complex command all of whose aspects will be understood by the game; but it does allow and indeed encourage the player to express something.
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Game Details
First Publication Date: May 15, 2018
Current Version: 1
License: Commercial
Development System: Twine
Forgiveness Rating: Merciful
IFID: 4FA0B511-7D2F-44D6-858E-CD2D7DC1CE79
TUID: 14oexa2wyym73glu
Referenced in The end of the WORD as we know it, by molleindustria (Paolo Pedercini)
Human Errors on IFDB
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