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Davey Wreden's experimental narrative explores game development, artistic interpretation, and parasocial relationships. The narrator guides players through another developer's unfinished games while revealing his own obsession. The game deconstructs authorial intent, projection, and the ethics of interpretation. It questions what we take from art and what we impose. The meta-narrative creates profound discomfort.
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