Mother, Player

Mother, Player is an experimental narrative video game featuring pregnancy and early parenthood stories from artists during the global pandemic. Set within a backdrop of the tense 2020 United States election and a terrifying new international health crisis, players explore the maternal healthcare industry and parenting culture as a burnt out pansexual artist who has decided to have a child despite an increasingly discouraging geopolitical climate that deprioritizes and devalues care. The game additionally addresses the lack of multi-dimensional pregnancy and early parenthood stories in video games—something that the game developer herself became sensitive to and critical of after becoming…