It does not matter if you ever get over there

That's the story, little one. Oh don't you worry now, we'll be through this mess in no time! I promise you'll wish there was more. Why don't I finish up here, in the mean time could you please clear the table?

WE WOLL ALL DIE SOME DAY

So this is June of 2011, and I didn't hear anything from him for several weeks, I guess. Uh, and so out of nowhere one I day I get an email, and it's got a private link to a new game of Coda's.

Do you feel like a hero yet?

I realize that this doesn't make sense to you just yet. Which is fine, you're not my problem to solve. But I do hope that one day it clicks, and that you make peace with this thing you are wrestling. And when you finally see what I am talking about.

...what? That will free me? How does that work?

Guys, it's not so bad in here

Oh, dear, looks like someone spilled a drink over by the couch. Maybe mop that up as long as you're over there?

The switch to open this door is actually on the other side of the door, meaning that it's literally impossible to solve from this side. So even if you somehow brute forced your way through the first two challenges and got to this point, there's actually just no way to progress!

Why? Was there anything about it that you felt good about? Being here stinks!

He doesn't put them onto the internet, he just makes them and then immediately abandons them and they sit on his computer forever.

There is no second switch

escape...escape...need an escape

Well, you get something else in exchange.

From up here it just looks like dots

The guy over there wrote much wrong

If I could give him this gift, maybe I could fix the problem!

Do you enjoy being a housecleaner?

Eh, there's a bit more to this one, but still it's not really communicating anything, it's kinda just weird for weirdness sake.

I am compelled

Ha! And here I go with another lecture. Of course I would. Don't you worry about all that nonsense, for now just smooth out the rug in the bedroom.

True, maybe I only like things once I don't have them any more.

I just saw a flying penguin, let me tell you it was the most majestic thing I have ever seen! I don't feel like living because nothing will ever be as majestic as that.

Hey guys hows it going just hangin

You desperately need something and I cannot give it to you. I literally do not have it.

I don't think I ever told you this, but when I took your work and I was showing it to people, it actually felt... It felt as though I were responsible for something important and valuable.

There are too many messages in this area.

Devil Tower Star

Heh, it's strange, but the thought of not being driven by external validation is unthinkable, like I actually cannot conceive of what that would be like!

And to be honest I didn't consider it very healthy, when I first played this game. It looked to me like he was trying to disconnect himself from the world, And that wasn't what I wanted for him or for his games.

And it kind of makes you wonder: What was going through his head as he was building this?

A series of lavish manuals come with the game giving you incorrect instructions on how to play.

Darling, let me tell you something. In your lifetime, you are going to clean a lot of houses. And among all those, a few of them will stick out as truly wonderful, beautiful experiences. And none of them will be the ones that were easy.

Um... So anyway, Coda finishes this game, and then really he just kind of...takes off for a while.

Well, to show you I'm modifying the game here so that when you press 'Enter', it'll bring you back up to full speed, so you can enter the door for yourself.

This game is called Escape from Whisper, and it's one of the more generic games you'll see from Coda.

His terrible secret, he kept it well

The game ends with this eerie premonition of what's going to happen next in Coda's life. The solution to social anxiety, to fears of having to perform and having to chase success, the answer for Coda is to withdraw. To hide himself away.

art

A game of only posters and concept art showing what the game is intended to be.

Take my hand, let's jump together

Become one with the spiraling nonsense

That I could just play someone's game and see the voices in their head and get to know them better and have to do less of the messy in-person socializing. I could just get to know you through your work.

Maybe i'll feel real some day

Ethical

This is really hard to admit, but I was afraid to make this call. … Time moves differently for you than it does for me. … Maybe the prison is just affecting you in a strange way.

Drinking is not hurting my life.

HA! Something tells me you're gonna be fun to do this job with. Well this place isn't going to clean itself, far as I know. I'll finish up here, in the mean time could you please clear the table?

I know it's tempting but there's actually nothing over here. Sorry!