The Beginner's Guide
If you haven't played this game yet, go play it. You can get it right here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/303210/ It'll take you about 90 minutes. Go do that now. This post assumes you've played it and spoils basically the whole experience. --- Did you play it? Good. This is an email I wrote to the developer, immediately after playing through it: Hi. I just finished playing through A Beginner's Guide. I knew nothing about it going in. I was completely sold on the fact that it was being made by you, and that was enough for me to want to pick it up and give it my time. So I did. And for a while, I believed your story. Early on, the story seemed genuine. I knew in the back of my mind that I couldn't implicitly trust the person responsible for something as subversive as The Stanley Parable, but everything you said was plausible. And being an independent game developer myself, the story rang true, especially when I saw the "made by a newbie wit