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<h1 class="p-name">The Beginner's Guide</h1>
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<details><summary>Referenced by:</summary><a href="/garden/davey-wreden/index.md">Davey Wreden</a></details>

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My favorite video game of all time, bar none. Created by [Davey Wreden](/garden/davey-wreden/index.md)

The game broadly comments on the relationship between creators and consumers, and it can apply to all forms of art
- Perhaps also an important commentary on parasocial relationships

Important analyses:
- [Art for No One](https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-art-for-no-one)
- [The Artist is Absent: Davey Wreden and The Beginner's Guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N6y6LEwsKc)
- [Errant Signal - The Beginner's Guide (Spoilers)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAbh28j11RQ)
- [Davey Wreden's reflections](https://nitter.poast.org/HelloCakebread/status/1812560104270807523) after replaying it for the first time since finishing it, almost a decade ago
	- I'm overall happy to hear he's in a different place from when he made the game. There's a part of me that wonders what if we'd gotten more games like TBG, but it may have detracted from the brilliance of TBG, and I don't want him to have to be a tortured artist for our pleasure