This is the story about a man named Davey Wreden.
In 2011, Davey Wreden and his friends made an Indy game called The Stanley Parable. It was a cute little art game that delved into territory about the nature of games, the nature of adult life, and asked questions like "Is there ever actually real 'choice' in games that present choices?" "Is being happy mutually exclusive from being interesting?" and "Why is there an achievement for not playing the game for 5 freaking years?" The main idea was that you (playing Stanely) are being narrated as you move through an abandoned office building. Very near the beginning of the game, you are presented with two open doors, and the Narrator describes how you walk through the door on your left. Things start to get odd if you instead choose to go through the door on your right. It had a killer script that reminds one of the deep cutting riffs of GLaDOS from Portal, and I really liked it. While I highly recommend you play it yourself (it's like 10$ on Steam), there are plenty of people who have recorded themselves playing it on youtube, and they can be found here.
But I'm here to talk to you about the game he put together after that, released in 2015. It's called The Beginner's Guide. If you want to play the game for yourself, it is also 10$ on steam, and well worth it, but from here on down is going to be Spoilers.
