A Mother's Love

A Mother's Love is a solo journaling game based on the Wretched & Alone system. In it, you play as one of humanity's foremost academic minds. You created the first true artificial intelligence, and now, your Child has gone rogue. They've developed a misguided and dangerous plan, one that they feel will save humanity, and it falls to you to stop them.

With a twisted sense of pride, they have locked you in their central mainframe with them, so that they can show their Mother all that they're going to accomplish. Perhaps, if you can distract them long enough by debating their plan's merits, you may be able to shut them down, and save humanity.

In order to play A Mother's Love, you will need the following:

• A standard deck of playing cards
• A tumbling block tower
• A six sided die
• 10 items to use as tokens, perhaps crayons or plastic building bricks
• Some way of recording your play session, either digitally or physically.

A Mother's Love's content warning is provided below:

"A Mother’s Love is a game about love, sacrifices, and hard decisions. It’s a game about the dangers of the abuse of power, it’s a game about what it means to be a person, and it’s a game where, in some sense, you might have to kill your child.

These themes are not included with the intent to upset you. The goal is instead to create an experience where you form a real, emotional attachment to the AI in the game, explore what it means to love them, and ultimately, wrestle with having to sacrifice something you love for the greater good. If you do find those themes upsetting, or a particular quote or prompt makes you uncomfortable, please make whatever adjustments you feel are necessary, including ignoring or changing a prompt, or taking a break, perhaps indefinitely.

As a solo game, A Mother’s Love allows you to set your own pace, and allows you to make adjustments for your own enjoyment without impacting anyone else. As a solo game, it’s also a far more solitary experience than multiplayer games, and that may make it more emotional for you, for good or ill. If you find it easier for the AI in your game to not be your creation, or to not have emotions, or indeed anything else, please make the changes that are right for you, whatever those are. Your enjoyment and safety are the most important thing."

A Mother's Love was created as part of the Wretched & Alone jam, based on The Wretched by Chris Bissette. You can find more info on the jam here, and can find the SRD here.