Unreliable Narrator

here is an uncelebrated literary form that lurks in the genesis of many of your favourite things. Unlike valued blueprint texts such as the screenplay or the libretto, this form is rarely glimpsed in public, instead discarded with the other debris left behind in the creation of a videogame. I’m speaking of the ‘Example Walkthrough’. Less fashionable now, this was once the bedrock of publisher pitches, selling the dream in the absence of anything playable. In celebration of this form, here is.