Stanley... decided to press play and listen to this podcast.
We're going to spoil The Stanley Parable, so if you haven't played it... go and do that then come back.
First we discuss our nerd week, and the news.
The Stanley Parable is an interactive fiction video game designed by Davey Wreden. The game originally released on July 27, 2011 as a free modification for Half-Life 2.
Engine: Source
Genre: Interactive fiction
Writer(s): Davey Wreden; William Pugh
Narrator: Kevan Brighting
Designers: William Pugh, Davey Wreden
Developers: Galactic Cafe, Davey Wreden
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end. Contradiction follows contradiction, the rules of how games should work are broken, then broken again. This world was not made for you to understand.
But as you explore, slowly, meaning begins to arise, the paradoxes might start to make sense, perhaps you are powerful after all. The game is not here to fight you; it is inviting you to dance.
Bastion