The Beginner’s Guide, a follow up to independent game developer Davey Wreden’s The Stanley Parable, has been announced for release on Oct. 1 on PC and Mac.
Wreden made the announcement via Twitter today and shared a teaser website for The Beginner’s Guide. The game will cost $10, but will be discounted by 20 percent during its first week of availability.
The Beginner's Guide is my new game and my followup to Stanley Parable. It will launch this Thursday, October 1 thebeginnersgui.de
— Davey Wreden (@HelloCakebread) September 29, 2015
Other game developers seem to have had a chance to play The Beginner’s Guide prior to release and have offered some initial thoughts on Twitter:
I played The Beginners Guide a few times during its dev, and it's a very special game, a very strange game, really. It's hard to describe.
— Rami Ismail (@tha_rami) September 29, 2015
Also can attest: When I finished playing the first time it felt like multiple parts of my brain had blue-screened https://t.co/O7JiLTJAvc
— Sven Bergström (@___discovery) September 29, 2015
The Beginner's Guide almost brought me to tears the first time I played it. Really excited to see others' reactions to it
— Richard E Flanagan (@phosfiend) September 29, 2015
Below are some screenshots for the game:
The Stanley Parable was initially released as a mod developed using the Source engine in 2011. In 2013 it was released as a standalone game. The iconic voice of The Stanley Parable’s narrator was made available as a voice pack for Dota 2 last year. While The Stanley Parable was created by Wreden and co-creator William Pugh under the Galactic Café name, The Beginner’s Guide is the sole endeavor of Wreden.
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