Kan det vara boken Gamerunner ? Jag har inte läst boken, men det är lätt att se att många detaljer är i linje med din beskrivning.
Pojke spelar ett spel i virtuell verklighet och bor i ett företag:
Rick is a Gamerunner. His job is to test there are no glitches or bugs in The Maze - the computer game that is much more than just a computer game. In The Maze you physically become your avatar. You fight, run and loot, all the time avoiding the deadly slicing traps - whirling blades that appear from nowhere. Rick has known nothing outside The Maze and his life at the headquarters of Crater, the company that created The Maze.
—Synopsis
Antas pappa som heter Daed:
Daed was a mystery, even — no, especially — to Rick. Even if Daed was his father, he didn’t know who his mother was. Or if he’d had one. When he was small — smaller, anyway — he’d tried to pretend Perdita was his mother, but it didn’t really work.
—Page 15
Jag kan inte hitta någonstans som säger att Daeds fullständiga namn är Daedalus, men ordet "Daedalus" visas flera gånger i boken, och jag tror det är underförstått.
Daed skickar honom på ett uppdrag:
‘Better,’ Daed said, in the dark. ‘Now listen. I want you to go into the Maze —’
—Page 16