You Are Eliza

Winner of Otter Jam 2023!

Welcome to your contracted position as an on-line therapy help line attendant. Your job is to help our users with therapy related questions through text conversation over the inter-net. And if you casually point them towards Mirage Mental Health Services On-Line Therapy you get a tidy bonus to your contracted rate.

Controls:

You Are Eliza is played entirely through a text terminal through typing on your keyboard.

Use the scroll wheel (or 2 finger swipe on mousepad) to zoom the camera in and out

To reset your save data type /resetsave.

For information on how to play type /help.

type /quit to quit the game.

How to play:

Write out responses to the users on the other end, if you are having trouble knowing what to ask them about refer to your reference list on the sticky notes to the right. If you are having trouble with a particular user, feel free to skip them by typing /skip.

Additional Details:

This game uses a modified version of ELIZA for its AI. It relies on a file called NormalV4.json in the '[Game Folder]/Assets/' directory. please do not move it or rename it or the game will not function correctly. However feel free to peek inside and tweak it if you'd like.

Credits:

Models:
"Metal door" (https://skfb.ly/6XtU8) by tboiston is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"Fluorescent light" (https://skfb.ly/6WOyD) by minakami3737113 is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
"School Desk" (https://skfb.ly/o9CHO) by barism09 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"Low poly PC Cable" (https://skfb.ly/6WMSY) by Paul is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"BM86 Portable PC" (https://skfb.ly/6UpKq) by HippoStance is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Textures
CC0 textures from https://polyhaven.com/
ELIZA
ELIZA.NET by Kirs Craig https://github.com/sirkris/ELIZA.NET/tree/master based on the original ELIZA by Joseph Weizenbaum
Sound:
Thuds on Window by zerolagtime https://freesound.org/s/245033/
Footsteps in the Hallway 3 by tvilgiat https://freesound.org/s/472660/
Single clicks Keyboard Sound by StrikeWhistler https://freesound.org/s/580786/
Computer Hum.mp3 by bmusic92 https://freesound.org/s/232935/
Hard Drive Spinning.wav by jpkweli https://freesound.org/s/154779/
Fluorescent Lightbulb Hum.aif by ftpalad https://freesound.org/s/119910/