#The beginner's guide

[certifiedfae]

“…Okay.”

selected dialogue from the ending of The Beginner's Guide, a game released in 2015. screenshots taken from NiZZULiVE's no commentary walkthrough of the game on YouTube. Would highly recommend playing through it yourself if you're at all intrigued by this.

[employee210]

TSP FANDOM! ARTIST NEEDS YOUR HELP!

You may recognize @missazura from her art in The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe.

She's amazingly skilled and dedicated, but she needs your help!

She needs to move into an apartment as quickly as possible. The weather in Malaysia is intense and the home she's lives in now cannot take it. Her home is damaged from termites, rot, and severe water damage.

Her computer equipment necessary to keep her job is at risk with every rain storm! She isn't paid a typical bi-weekly schedule and goes without money for weeks at a time. And even when she's paid, it's all spent on keeping the house her family lives in from going without power!!

OUR BASE GOAL IS 3,000 USD. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS!

[mail-me-a-snail]

what i really enjoy about the beginner's guide is that davey (the character) does not play any of coda's games as they were meant to be played.

he is always finding some way to subvert them because he either has 1) no patience for coda's antics and/or 2) he already has an assumed idea of what the game should be about, and he forces that idea onto the game. it's like coda says: davey puts lamp posts in all his games, bc the lamp post symbolizes a meaning.

the lamp post does not mean anything; it itself is a symbol of meaning. davey projects hard onto coda, supposes that because he sees himself in coda's games, coda must also be depressed, anxious, he must also hate himself.

that must be the only explanation for any of them.

and it just. boggles my mind how the beginner's guide is always taken very literally, when it's really just an exploration on the relationship btwn a person and the art they're consuming; how someone who likes something can see that thing not for what it is, but what they think it to be.

[three3two22]

Some indie game snippets in pixels

From top left:

Chants of Sennaar

Hollow Knight

GRIS

The Beginner's Guide

Genesis Noir

Rain World

Transistor

Tunic

Also bonus fox:

I recently finished Tunic so this little guy is kinda living in my brain right now

[meltran]

Cut content from The Beginner's Guide (2015)

[sentiniel]

the beginner's guide asks, "i did this to you; how do i be good? am i good, despite everything i've done to you? despite me hating myself?"

and wanderstop replies, "yes. yes, you are good. say it back to me. okay. good. trust yourself a little more. sit with the pain, discomfort and loss. let yourself grieve. we will be here for as long as it takes. we will only move again when you are ready."

[obligatory-name-change]

i think the most insane part of the beginner's guide for me is davey in reality has no idea if coda has actually stopped making games

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

Wanderstop is for all the people who played The Beginner's Guide and wanted the chores house game to keep going

[internetmonsterxd]

i fought every urge to make stamps of spoilers, this game is great guys

[liminal-spaced-out]

[winterjackal]

i need you to fix us

[videogamepolls]

Requested by anon

[coastal-mangos-one]

babe r u ok you're rewatching the final sequence of Beginner's Guide again

[jan-pona]

I played The Beginner's Guide again. I've got to write about the house cleaning game. It's a masterpiece. The contrast of the snow outside and the warm lighting inside create a cozy feeling inside the house. The layout of the house obscures tasks resetting. The song "Va" is so beautiful. The casual conversion puts my mind at ease.

Maybe staying in the space between spaces is good. Coda's version would have let us drown our sorrows in an endless stream of straightening pillows and washing dishes. But the scene ends, and every time it's bittersweet.

When the credits fade and I return to the lamppost once more, the only question in my mind is, "Could I ever make something like this?"

[ayeforscotland]

The Beginner's Guide is an interactive narrative focused on the creative process, and touches on the relationship between players and developers.

Also my online friend, Simon Bowie also shared his dissertation with me which covers The Beginner's Guide and how it fits into New Sincerity, the weird and the post-ironic turn. You can find it here.

[shinakazami1]

I FORGOT TO UPLOAD my art trade piece with @refrigerator427 , with his design for Coda :]] Thanks once again for drawing Rain so gorgeously and for doing the trade with me ><

version without text under the cut :]