The Beginner's Guide

Consider playing Awkward Dimensions Redux

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so good! a little wonky on my steam deck (the controls) but otherwise fun and had an engaging story.

Very deep and cool experience overall!

Failed interpretations, and miscommunications: bane of our social existence... A good case study, to get a quick hit of inspiration: even if it is all fictional, or especially as it is fictional...

the beginner's guide is many things. it is an incredibly effective commentary on a player's sense of entitlement to a piece of art and parasocial tendencies that arise in an audience especially with 'troubled' artists - we love them, we know them, how sad it is that they don't realise we Get them, why can't they see? we're what we needed all along, this is the true respite of art, recognition is the path to inner peace! if you're a fan of wreden's style this is obviously worth a play; if the stanley parable is metacommentary on playing a game, then the beginner's guide is about making one, or making many, or questioning the constraints a game must conform to (must it be playable?), or wishing your game had an audience, or knowing that was never the point. i think many of us have the tendency to assume that a piece that speaks to us so viscerally must have been made to speak to anyone at all. we split hairs and pry open doors and read interviews to see the genetic makeup of a work that so simply altered us, with a well-intentioned but ever-present disregard for why it came to be in the first place. of course, that is what i'm currently doing. maybe the beginner's guide is a way to express wreden's own emotions, or maybe it's about the deteriorating practise of (from the creator's perspective) over-analysis by an audience [overthinking, overanalysing, separates the body from the mind..]