The Beginner's Guide

[VirtualForce]

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Something a bit more descriptive.

[DieGrootHammer]

So I was perusing Youtube as I always do on my lunch break, and came across a video of a game called The Beginners Guide. Here below is the video by Nerd Cubed:



It's from the same developer as The Stanley Parable, which I loved. I am really intrigued by the idea behind this game, and I'm seriously considering getting it just to experience it. It falls in the "walking simulator" category of games, but I feel that there is much more to get from the game than just walking around.

From the review done on PC Gamer:

In The Beginner’s Guide, Wreden, as himself, narrates a tour of experimental Source engine games ostensibly made by his friend, Coda. That’s the first quirk: Wreden is talking to us, not to a character. It’s like a documentary, but it feels illicit—we’re experiencing someone’s personal projects, a collection that was never meant to be shared. The first few games are convincingly the plain work of a beginner, but Wreden finds exciting creativity and mystery in each as he tries to decode Coda’s thoughts. It’s enchantingly genuine. I thought of my own folders of false starts and documents called ‘story.txt’ and ‘test.png.’

I'm really intrigued by this the more I read, as I like "games" like this. I believe there will be a few of those budding game developers on the forum that would find some interest in this as well

GAME LINK ON STEAM

[VirtualForce]

Yup, it is, posted about it last week. I will get it later. Weird name though, but very interesting concept, I love some of the work the indie devs do, really outside the box.

[DieGrootHammer]

Yup, it is, posted about it last week. I will get it later. Weird name though, but very interesting concept, I love some of the work the indie devs do, really outside the box.

Urgh sorry I missed that thread completely

[VirtualForce]

I had almost forgotten about this game, its now @ - 40%, going for R65.40 on STEAM