In the video game 'Citizen Sleeper,' you play as an android with a human mind — after they sold their physical body to a corporation. It's inspired by surviving in the modern gig economy.
Citizen Sleeper is a sleek, cyberpunk-style video game, where you play an android with the mind of a human, who has sold their flesh-and-blood body to the corporation Essen-Arp. When you start the game, you've just escaped Essen-Arp in a stolen robot frame, transported to a spaceship colony, where you don't know anyone and have only a vague memory of who you once were.
"Citizen Sleeper was very much inspired by my experience as a gig worker in London," says Gareth Damian Martin, the game's designer."There was a mix of things that I did, but most of it revolved around this concept that we have in the UK called a zero-hours contract. You are not guaranteed any work, but you are contracted to a company, and basically they can give you any number of hours.
"The strain of testing loads of different kinds of 3D, hour after hour, basically turned out to be very bad for you," Martin says."And I ended up damaging my eyes." The life of these goods is often prolonged, however — or at least insured — by use of the manufacturer's maintenance products. In Citizen Sleeper, that planned obsolescence is a key feature of the robot frame worn by the protagonist.
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