Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
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Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
#2In case you assume novelty, a comment [1] from ArsTechnica reader Jensen404 explains otherwise by linking to [2] a post on Bluesky.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/jonathan-blow-has-spe...
[2] https://bsky.app/profile/draknek.bsky.social/post/3m7qybidq7...
Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
#3In case you assume novelty, a comment [1] from ArsTechnica reader Jensen404 explains otherwise by linking to [2] a post on Bluesky. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/jonathan-blow-has-spe... [2] https://bsky.app/profile/draknek.bsky.social/post/3m7qybidq7...
Seems like the original puzzles were licensed for this game, in which case why not?
Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
#4In case you assume novelty, a comment [1] from ArsTechnica reader Jensen404 explains otherwise by linking to [2] a post on Bluesky. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/jonathan-blow-has-spe... [2] https://bsky.app/profile/draknek.bsky.social/post/3m7qybidq7...
Seems like the original puzzles were licensed for this game, in which case why not?
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Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
#5In case you assume novelty, a comment [1] from ArsTechnica reader Jensen404 explains otherwise by linking to [2] a post on Bluesky. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/12/jonathan-blow-has-spe... [2] https://bsky.app/profile/draknek.bsky.social/post/3m7qybidq7...
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Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
#6The Witness was a slog, maybe he's learnt how to make puzzles which are actually fun this time.
Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
#7I wonder how much of the 10 years spent making "a programming language, an engine, and a game" were actually spent on each slice.
Hopefully, jai and the engine will help make the next game faster...
Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
#8Weird that the post above this one in the front page has “Braid” in its title and it’s not about Blow’s famous game.
Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
#9Interested to play this but I think the trailer does it a huge disservice. Just a barrage of voice clips and no real structure to it. I think it would help the game a lot if they replace that trailer ASAP
Re: Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
#10I always find Jonathan Blow and Casey Muratori to be great educators and advocates on the “simplicity” end of the spectrum. Jonathan can be super abrasive and comes with some political baggage, but does a good job advocating against what he perceives as unnecessary complexity in software. Opponents would suggest his domain and cherry-picked examples create the perfect environment for his positions and that he does take a long time to ship stuff. That said, he pulls off some compelling games with relatively minimal resources.