Davey Wreden
Constraints Kickstart Creation
"Everything that's interesting has a strong emotional core," says game designer Davey Wreden, creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner's Guide.
The Beginner's Guide
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Go Sunset a Watchman
This past summer saw, within a month of each other, the arrival of two of the year’s most unwanted works: Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman and Tale of Tale’s Sunset. No one asked for, and no one is celebrating, Watchman’s publication. Leaving aside the troubling context surrounding the “discovery” of
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The impossibility of sadness in That Dragon, Cancer
Art has always been useful for drawing our attention to the controversially sad. Take something like Zoe Quinn’s text adventure Depression Quest; depression is, by its nature, a miserable affliction, but it is also a diagnostic category burdened by stigma, shame, and skepticism. Some people insist t
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High Scores: The Best Videogames of 2015
Header image and artwork by Caty McCarthy 25. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base) Neon cuteness belying hardened spacefaring carnage. A manic platformer disguised as a cheerful shoot-em-up. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a lot of things, and all of those things are descending on you
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The Year in Feels
If we had access to some grand compendium filled with every single emotion that videogames make us feel, it would probably waste most of its words trying to describe fun. But as a concept, fun is primitive. Fun is escape. Like a dog chasing a tennis ball or a crow sliding down a tin roof, fun is int
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The Reality Hunger of Davey Wreden
How The Beginner’s Guide expands the lexicon of games.
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Shut up, The Beginner’s Guide
If you do not like The Beginner’s Guide, we have the review for you.
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Explore a portrait of a game creator in The Beginner’s Guide
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. The Beginner’s Guide (PC, Mac) BY Everything Unlimited LTD The Beginner’s Guide, a followup from the creator of The Stanley Parable (which is a game about games) is a videogame about the peop
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Let’s talk about the ending of The Beginner’s Guide
Should Davey Wreden have released The Beginner’s Guide?
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The Beginner’s Guide to the art of videogames
Wreden on Wreden isn’t perfect, but it raises questions with a clarity few games have dared.
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The Stanley Parable creator announces The Beginner’s Guide for October 1st
Whatever it was that Davey Wreden put out after The Stanley Parable it was bound to be met with critical and expecting eyes. You can’t make a game that deconstructs the notion of player choice with such gall and humor and avoid having your next creation heavily examined by everyone that plays it. Su