#The beginner's guide

[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!

[midnightfox450]

Love undertale and deltarune and the stanley parable and the beginner's guide. Love games that have you sit down and think about what you've done. Love games that just want you to feel normal about them. Love games that beg you to stop playing them over and over and over again but still give you new content on successive playthroughs because they know you'll do it anyway. Love games that assert that participating in someone else's creation is more than just an act of love, it can be an act of invasion, of violation. LOVE METAFICTION IN MY VIDEO GAMES!!!!!

[liminal-spaced-out]

[dollbones3]

when i am around you i feel physically ill

[dishesoap]

The Beginner's Guide is an hour long walking simulator made by the man who created The Stanley Parable. It's a meta game, narrated by a man who has collected the games his friend made as he walks you through them. It's about the act of creation and I play it, like, once a year. I'm a little obsessed.

[sundanceritz]

Cut content from The Beginner's Guide (2015)

[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 :]

[trans-rights-coastalmangoes]

me and all my guys when we find out one of the headmates hasn't seen one of our favorite pieces of media

[winterjackal]

i need you to fix us

[riceballoon]

the beginner's guide

[fucketybye]

im such a whore for art about self reflection. when the artist studies and obsesses over self reflection rather than reflecting. Questioning and dissecting external things to avoid dissecting yourself and then realising thats what you've been doing all along.

[shatteredlamppost]

drunk drivers/killer whales, the ballad of the costa concordia - car seat headrest / the beginner's guide - davey wreden

[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.

[owlfromthemeadow]

What the hell's going on?!

Can someone tell me please?

Why I'm switching faster than the channels on TV?

So proud of this one, actually! Hope you guys like it <3

[liminal-spaced-out]

One of my favorite games