You are an infant. You are born into the world a blank slate—a lump of clay that can be molded into anything, and you are the sculptor. The tools of the trade are not your chisels and hammers, but your decisions and actions. How you are defines who you are.
No two lives are the same; each separate experience will have a unique mixture of twelve different stories. Make friends, live through a divorce, have romances, and get jobs. These smaller stories tie together into 18 years of life lived from your first year of elementary school to high school graduation. The choices you make affect events that occur, and even affect future choices you can make. Once you graduate high school, you can see the person you chose to be. We also allow you to see into the minds of the developers. We give you a little slice of our philosophy based on the way you played.
Our goal with /self/ was to design an experience that replaces the usual reward-driven gameplay with mechanics that look pointedly at the act of choice. How does personality affect how we choose? How do you conduct yourself in certain scenarios? Will people be interested in simply being a person, or are rewards necessary to generate interest? /self/is a study of human personality, human behavior, and the human capacity to choose.