We Were Never Meant to Talk About The Beginner's Guide

Patreon:   / nextlevelnarrative   Twitter:   / nxtlvlnarrative   Website: https://www.nextlevelnarrative.com/ The Beginner's Guide is one of 2015's best narrative games, but it's also one that defies conventional discourse. In fact, it's more an 'interactive experience' than a typical video game. Much of the game's artistic choices and storytelling techniques are made to purposely make the player question if what they experienced was a true story or not. But when you delve into the life of its creator, Davey Wreden (creator of The Stanley Parable), The Beginner's Guide becomes much more than a simple story of a man narrating events in his life. The Beginner's Guide is a game about making games. It's a game about loss, and ego, and regret. But more than anything else, it's the story of the man who created it and his journey to learn the very reason he loves making games. Sources: Davey Wreden: Playing Stories - Aalto University Games Now! Series:    • Davey Wreden: Playing Stories - Aalto Univ...   'Game of the Year' - Blog by Davey Wreden: http://web.archive.org/web/2017060818... Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:06 - An unexpected smash hit 03:13 - Davey and Coda 08:02 - Why meta games are so complex 10:20 - Why Davey made The Stanley Parable 11:14 - What happened after The Stanley Parable? 13:33 - Addicted to attention 15:13 - Who is Davey Wreden? 17:24 - Game of the Year 18:58 - Maybe Coda just liked making prison games 20:35 - Making amends 21:24 - Your deeper reason for making games 23:06 - Thanks for watching