Survive and ultimately thrive, one cycle at a time, and sometimes against the clock! Make or break alliances, uncover truths and escape your hunters.

Each cycle you use the dice you are dealt to choose what to do with your time. Inspired by Tabletop Roleplaying games, Citizen Sleeper uses Dice, Clocks and Drives to create a player-led experience, where you choose your path in a rich and responsive world. Thrust amongst the unfamiliar and colourful inhabitants of the Eye, you need to build friendships, earn your keep, and navigate the factions of this strange metropolis, if you hope to survive to see the next cycle. You are a sleeper, a digitised human consciousness in an artificial body, owned by a corporation that wants you back. Gareth also holds a PhD in experimental literature from Royal Holloway, University of London.One of 2022’s most acclaimed indies, the Game Awards-nominated Citizen Sleeper is a Tabletop-inspired narrative RPG set on Erlin’s Eye, a ruined space station that is home to thousands of people trying to survive on the edges of an interstellar capitalist society. Their game photography has been shown at London's Photographer's Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, as well as being published in the British Journal of Photography. They are the editor and creator of Heterotopias, an independent zine about games and architecture, and have lectured on the history and theory of games and architecture at the world-renowned Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Gareth's criticism has been published in a wide variety of forms, from Eurogamer and Rock Paper Shotgun to Edge Magazine and Frieze Magazine. Gareth has been nominated for a Games Award, multiple IGF Awards, a GDC Award, and four BAFTAs, and has been named “one of the most exciting indie talents around” Their second, Citizen Sleeper was equally critically acclaimed, and its prose was named 'some of the best in all of video games' (Waypoint). Their first game, In Other Waters won the Jury Prix at IndieCade Europe, and was widely praised by critics for its “hypnotic art, otherworldly audio and captivating writing” (Eurogamer).

“An immense talent.” - Chris Plante, Editor-in-Chief, Polygon “An accomplished world-builder.” - Edge Magazine Jump Over the Age is a one-person game development studio founded by Gareth Damian Martin

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