If you liked The Stanley Parable, I think you’re going to like this game by the same creator. The Beginner's Guide is another experimental meta-game that's interesting and thought provoking, though less amusing than the previous game and somewhat darker in tone. Just don’t expect a “regular” game and keep in mind that it’s relatively short at less than 2 hours. The 86% positive votes from 9K reviews on Steam are fitting in my opinion.

Below are 5 giveaways for this game. If you're interested in this game, please enter as many as you can. Don't worry about the possibility of winning more than one GA. If it happens I'll just reroll the extra wins and will let you keep one.

  1. Level 0+ with almost no restrictions (uses SGTools. Read this if you’re new to this type of giveaways and need some guidance. It's really easy!)
  2. Level 0+ with some basic restrictions (also uses SGTools)
  3. Level 3+, invite only (forum-linked giveaway)
  4. Level 5+, invite only (forum-linked giveaway)
  5. Level 7+, public (listed on the Giveaways page)

And yes, I'm well aware most people here don't need the extra explanation in parenthesis :-)

All giveaways end in one week.

Good luck!

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1 2 3 Bump !

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excusez moi!
I tried to check requirements in the first link (I'm new to this system).
Custom rule: pass_activated_rule && !VAC_economy_ban
What does exactly this mean? and why I don't pass it?

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You need to activate all your wins. You missed this one. To resolve, simply activate the game with the key that you see here, then go to the giveaway page on SGTools, and from the Home menu select Synchronize. You'll then be able to enter.

Good luck!

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uhm it says that the key is already used. So I think I'm screwed correct? there is any way I can correct this?

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You can get another key by buying it on sale or trading for it. Or if you feel that this is in error (i.e. that you didn't give the key to someone else), you may try to contact the GA creator. They may be able to get the key revoked and give you another one.

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I really don't know about this key or whatever happened to it. trading for it might be an option, but still it's nice I'm marked as a bad guy, I guess won't be easy to join your giveaway this time. I hope I can resolve this problem in the near future. Instead trading I will still prefer to create giveaways with my spare keys.
Just bad I can't clean out my profile. :/
I thank you for assisting me!

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I don't consider you a bad guy and am not going to blacklist you or anything. It's just that there are rules on this site, and there's a good reason for them. SGTools-protected giveaways are just a convenient way to enforce these rules.

Another thing you may want to consider is to register to a sale notification for this game on isthereanydeal.com. This way you can buy a key for a cheap price when there's a sale, and you'll get access to many SGTools-protected giveaways. These are becoming very popular on this site and are typically configured to check for activations, so I think it's worthwhile to get this fixed.

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yes I think it's an option, I will try to get one or trade for it. if you know somebody who has a sparer key for it please consider to ping me, I should have a couple of bundle leftovers I could trade to clean my papers :)

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'thing you may want to consider is to register to a sale notification for this game on isthereanydeal.com.'
Just done. Thank you!

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Great game, have a bump because numbers.

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I just updated the numbers :-)

The main things I'm curious to see are:

  1. How close will the number of entries for the L7 public GA be comapred with the L5 invite-only GA? The gap is pretty bug now, but many people join public GA when they're close to end and are listed high in the first page of the Giveaways page.
  2. Will rerolls be required?
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Bump!! :3

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Belated bump.

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A bit surprised to find myself on your BL. No drama, I promise

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The reason is that you entered the ungiftable keys List 1 (Iteration #4) without adding a comment about which key/s you took (or which keys you tried to activate and were already used). See more details in the relevant ungiftable keys thread (specifically the parts in bold).

http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/a11790cd-31aa-11e6-8f87-04019cc0dc01
melisand (2016-06-16 16:29:37 UTC)

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Fair enough. My bad for not paying better attention. Somehow, that leave a comment if the key was taken just didn't register. Thanks for getting back to me. Just wanted to make sure I had said anything to offend.

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and if You liked The Stanley Parable and/or The Beginner's Guide You may also like free to play game created by the same person:
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist

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Thanks for the recommendation. Looks very interesting, and at 20 minutes of gameplay (according to HL2B.com) I'm for sure going to play it very soon, likely today.

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Thanks for the recommendation. I played the game and enjoyed it, especially the first playthrough. The game was so short, and at times felt like there's an overload of information, that I felt it's worthwhile to play it again. But other than the cassette player which I somehow missed on my first playthrough, there wasn't much reason to.

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I'm glad You liked it ^^

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bumping....

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bomping

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Thanks for the 5x chances! Bump.

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Bump.

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Bump!

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Bump!

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thx bump

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A wild bump appears!
You use 'Thank you', it's somewhat effective

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A bump can indeed be more effective thank Thank you, but both are very much appreciated! :-)

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Thanks for the giveaways!

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Thanks

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Just thought u need a new stats about how many people bump the thread after reading the "please, bump the thread" phrase, counting if they entered or not, their levels, sg tools entrance etc.
Also, it was 5 days ago and giveaways still have like ~400 entries, that's kinda strange to me(entered the first three ones(131?) cause I'm a low-level-leech-king)

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No, but I added a stat about the number of entries today vs yesterday, and Level 7 made a huge comeback.

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Bump and thanks for the gibs.Game/story looks awesome :)

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It is indeed!

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