This is the announcement trailer for a new game by Jonathan Blow, the mind behind Braid and The Witness. I think it's now my most anticipated game of 2026. That said, I'm a bit taken aback by the...
This is the announcement trailer for a new game by Jonathan Blow, the mind behind Braid and The Witness. I think it's now my most anticipated game of 2026.
That said, I'm a bit taken aback by the "hundreds of hours of gameplay" claim. I like my games a bit more compact than that. But perhaps it'll be similar to games like The Witness and Blue Prince, where there are multiple levels of completion and challenge.
IIRC they mentioned "1400 puzzles" during the game awards. Since Blow has been working on this for ten years I'd guess that they don't exaggerate with "hundreds of hours of gameplay". I'll pass on...
IIRC they mentioned "1400 puzzles" during the game awards. Since Blow has been working on this for ten years I'd guess that they don't exaggerate with "hundreds of hours of gameplay".
I'll pass on this one though, since Blow is such an idiot.
It's a real shame - both Braid and especially The Witness are high up on my all-time favorites list. Blow used to just be ornery about technology (in a way that was at least academically...
It's a real shame - both Braid and especially The Witness are high up on my all-time favorites list. Blow used to just be ornery about technology (in a way that was at least academically interesting), but he's moved on from there to outright bigotry. This will be a skip from me.
I'm not the person you asked, but: I started thinking that he's an idiot 7-10 years ago (it must have been one or two years after he started working on his programming language) when he...
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I'm not the person you asked, but:
I started thinking that he's an idiot 7-10 years ago (it must have been one or two years after he started working on his programming language) when he live-streamed his game development and also playthroughs of other games. During the streams he became more and more insufferable, narcissistic, belittling other developers, ranting about his employees, knowing everything better than other people, etc.
At the time I thought that the fact that he had an audience who cheered him on in his streams was a really bad influence for him. Anyway, I stopped following his projects then, quite disappointed by his attitude.
Since then I saw a tweet in which he called Trump 'the best president', and I read that he became a typical rightwing follower, also NFT and crypto supporter, but I didn't really care to follow that up, since my personal impression of him and his support of Trump was enough for me to lose any interest in his projects.
A quick search for a few tweets by him (links go to Twitter/X):
This Bsky thread from yesterday doesn't have full receipts for everything, but has an overview of the Sokoban variant games that Blow used for his new game (with full permission, it would seem)...
This Bsky thread from yesterday doesn't have full receipts for everything, but has an overview of the Sokoban variant games that Blow used for his new game (with full permission, it would seem) and also a TLDR of his latest attitudes:
He’s adversarial to people talking about privilege and representation, is dismissive of diversity efforts, has dabbled in covid trutherism, and is pro-MAGA.
Jon in February called [Trump] "the best President we have had in my entire life".
According to a post of Bluesky, it's taking a bunch of existing puzzle games with different mechanics, and then building on those with new puzzles that combine the different mechanics together....
According to a post of Bluesky, it's taking a bunch of existing puzzle games with different mechanics, and then building on those with new puzzles that combine the different mechanics together.
That said, I know very little about this, I'd just seen someone else repost that on Bluesky and then saw this thread.
This is the announcement trailer for a new game by Jonathan Blow, the mind behind Braid and The Witness. I think it's now my most anticipated game of 2026.
That said, I'm a bit taken aback by the "hundreds of hours of gameplay" claim. I like my games a bit more compact than that. But perhaps it'll be similar to games like The Witness and Blue Prince, where there are multiple levels of completion and challenge.
IIRC they mentioned "1400 puzzles" during the game awards. Since Blow has been working on this for ten years I'd guess that they don't exaggerate with "hundreds of hours of gameplay".
I'll pass on this one though, since Blow is such an idiot.
It's a real shame - both Braid and especially The Witness are high up on my all-time favorites list. Blow used to just be ornery about technology (in a way that was at least academically interesting), but he's moved on from there to outright bigotry. This will be a skip from me.
As someone who liked his previous work and have no idea of what he's been up to on the bigotry front, would you be willing to catch me up?
I'm not the person you asked, but:
I started thinking that he's an idiot 7-10 years ago (it must have been one or two years after he started working on his programming language) when he live-streamed his game development and also playthroughs of other games. During the streams he became more and more insufferable, narcissistic, belittling other developers, ranting about his employees, knowing everything better than other people, etc.
At the time I thought that the fact that he had an audience who cheered him on in his streams was a really bad influence for him. Anyway, I stopped following his projects then, quite disappointed by his attitude.
Since then I saw a tweet in which he called Trump 'the best president', and I read that he became a typical rightwing follower, also NFT and crypto supporter, but I didn't really care to follow that up, since my personal impression of him and his support of Trump was enough for me to lose any interest in his projects.
A quick search for a few tweets by him (links go to Twitter/X):
"Nature is healing" after Trump won
"Are you kidding? He is the best President we have had in my entire life, by far. It's a miracle." about Trump
"It doesn't help that all males currently under the age of 40 were raised to be supercucks." - I think people who use terms like this can just fuck off.
So, while I liked Braid and The Witness, and I think he's a talented game developer, he's also a rightwing douche and I don't want to support him.
Oof. Thanks. What a bummer.
This Bsky thread from yesterday doesn't have full receipts for everything, but has an overview of the Sokoban variant games that Blow used for his new game (with full permission, it would seem) and also a TLDR of his latest attitudes:
I suspect that plus some level of Stephen sausage roll/baba is you style escalation of mechanics
According to a post of Bluesky, it's taking a bunch of existing puzzle games with different mechanics, and then building on those with new puzzles that combine the different mechanics together.
That said, I know very little about this, I'd just seen someone else repost that on Bluesky and then saw this thread.