The personality of you alter Ego is the most critical. Personify Your Alter Ego Give It a Voice and Personality. Unless you begin to blur the psychological line between your alter ego and your true self, feel free to create an alter ego in as much detail as you deem fit. These saves are read from the OLDGAMES file, which I deleted and was able to save my game just fine after that. There is no such thing as an ‘over-thought out Alter Ego’. Turns out it's CTRL+S), there are already some saves in there, I was unable to write my save to any of these entries. The game is still free, you just have to wait 5, then 10, and then 20 minutes in between if you want to play the game for free. Secondly, when trying to save the game (I had to work out how to do this by essentially bashing at the keyboard to try and work out how to do it. In this game, you have to live a different character. To do this, when in the Alter Ego directory (in your Linux terminal, not the DOSBOX ons), issue the command chmod 666 * Alter ego is a unique game, which is based on the life of a person from birth to old age.

After looking at the permissions of all the files in the directory they're all read-only so I set everything to read/write to avoid any possilble complains with other files later on. Steam Ratings: Mixed (123) 68 of the 123 user reviews for this game are positive. I did actually come up against a couple of problems, which I'm not sure if these are unique to running DOSBOX on Linux.įirstly, DOSBOX was complaining in the background about being unable to write to 'SIDEICON.GPH'. Enjoying this game so far, it's very well written and I've already been told off by the narrative as others mentioned below.

Free version of alter ego game