Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all time. Those of you who have played the recent Order of the Sinking Star demo, does it live up to his legend? Should I go ahead and preorder?
no idea who that isthe game looks like shitbuy an ad
odor of the stinking saar
>>741752312Why did he feel the need to make it have thousands of puzzles and hundreds of hours of content?Most people don't want to play a puzzle game longeer than like 10 hours
Jonathan Blow is largely retarded
>Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all time. Braid was BTFO by a rapper (Blow cried about it in a dark room) and Line Puzzles:The Game was BTFO by The Looker. I have the OOSS demo and will play it, but sokoban is a boring genre and I hear it runs like actual dogshit. Why spend all that time needlessly creating a new engine if it's objectively worse than all the other available tools?
>>741752446Jonathan Blow always tries to deliver strong value in his games. That's not a bad thing.
>>741752586to be honest desu making your own engine for your shitty game for no reason other than to say you did it is pretty based
>>741752371> no idea who that isUnderage? Do you know who Shigeru Miyamoto is? Hideo Kojima?
>>741752664It'd be based if it worked well, but for it to be less optimized than the usual jeet slop on Steam, that's embarrassing.
>>741752450https://youtu.be/YAqw9_Fo3j4
>>741752312Stop making these lazy bait threads, schizo.
>discussing game devs and their new games on the game board is baitLow IQ
Moving boxes okay, overarching story okay, but why is it full of women and minorities?
if he's so smart why did he spend like $4 million dollars translating braid remastered commentary tracks when obviously 99% of people would not give a shit.
>>741753428He cares about quality.
>>741752312>Jonathon Blow is largely regarded/thread
>>741752312there ain't even no point to the game
No he isn't?it's also probably toby fox and not even ConcernedApe either
>>741753596Who?
>>741752312Braid was good in spite of the retarded atomic bomb metaphor
>>7417523121, hello mr blow2, sokobans suck and you should kill yourself
>>741753805It was really about memory
>>741752446the whole idea of the game was taking the powers from 4 different sokoban games, then combining them and adding more to see what gameplay you can get out of that giant combinatorial set and that kind of just requires a ton of levels
>>741754584> and that kind of justIt's him
>>741752312I mean Braid was good, The Witness was good, but I really don’t understand the hype for this guy. Neither was particularly groundbreaking, even at the time.
>>741753596>No he isn't?who are you asking?
>>741752446>Most people don't want to play a puzzle game longeer than like 10 hoursMost people don't want to play puzzle games. Puzzle chads absolutely want thousands of puzzles.
>>741752312Why does he look like a Mongol?
>>741752312>Jonathan Blow is largely retarded Fixed
>>741752312Who
>>741754846High T
>>741752312
>>741754668He was the first indie dev to really make a game worth playing
>>741752312Language optimized for fast compilation times, but not fast runtime execution. Classic rookie mistake.
>>741754997Anon he was in the first wave of indie devs to get shilled on xbox marketplace. First mover advantage in action. Braid was nowhere near the first good indie game.
>>741755129It obviously was
>>741752586>Braid was BTFO by a rapper (Blow cried about it in a dark room)That's not what happened. Very rude of you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqnz-7iQbYDon't forget, normal society hates you.
>>741759695I don't think that's him crying. He just looks gay like that.
/v/ will forever seethe because they are low iq solda boi fans
>>741752312I'll have to ask Soulja Boy what he thinks.
>>741754584what are these 4 powers?
>>741754668garbage like braid was the start of gay pretentious indie walking sim bullshiti remember trying it over a decade ago after everyone sucked it off endlesslyabsolute fucking garbage boring game
>>741759849If liking soulja boi more than blow makes me a normie then so be it.
>>741760809Soulja Boi could make Braid, but Jonathan Blow could never make Kiss Me Thru The Phone.
>>741759695a fucking classic
>>741752312>Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all timeyou jest and I laughed
>>741752312Is his game actually good? I remember Braid getting astroturfed to shit back then, but nobody literally thinks about the game anymore aside from the Souljaboy incident.It was a hit buts it's no longer treated like an indie classic like Binding of Isaac, is this guy really a (washed up) auteur, or was he just a lolcow who fooled the public for 3 months.
blow wants others to understand him but refuses to understand others
>>741754997That's Cave Story nigger, and the game is still fun to play unlike Braid
>Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all time
>>741752312Jblow is a lolcow, fuck off with your cult bullshit
>>741761576>no longer treated like an indie classic like Binding of IsaacNo shit. Isaac has been receiving DLC and updates for 15 years, meanwhile Braid got an anniversary edition that mainly updated the graphics to HD and that's it.
>Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all time.
>>741753596Anyone who thinks *Toby Fox* is more technically proficient than a guy who's made his own engine and his own OS is just blatantly fanboying without a damn clue. You'd still be wrong if you said ConcernedApe too, but at least he is a proficient coder.
>>741762238What about Hotline Miami, Cave Story, or Yume Nikki.You don't need updates to be considered as a timeless classic retard.
Reminder that Braid is such a "timeless classic" than the remaster sold like shit.
>>741754846Finnic ancestry, just like Notch, Gabe, Torvalds and other greats
>>741762452Other than maybe Hotline Miami, those are extremely niche games.
>>741752312I like the look of this but can't really tell what's going on
>>741762485Yeah, maybe Blow hasn't come to terms with it, but he's a success because he was in the right place at the right time. Now he's Jon 'Blow my computer up with a Sokoban clone', and Jon 'Blow a million dollars orchestrating an ambient score'.
>>741752312this retard got filtered by the vine platforms in hollow knight lmao
>>741762485The original is already so perfect the tacked on overpolishing of AE only serves to subtract from it
>>741752312Has soulja played the demo yet?
>>741762485>Reminder that Braid is such a "timeless classic" than the remaster sold like shit.ESL hands typed this post.
>>741752382lol
>>741752312The dialogue is so bad I don't give a shit about the story
>>741762238>Issac update edition>everybody boughted>Braid update edition>Nobody boughted>erm acktually that's because the update was just a HD texture pack, it would've been on the same level as Issac if the game came with a huge content update.Holy cope. Nobody bought Braid anniversary because it's shit and nobody cared about the game
No one considers him the most successful. The most successful is Notch who made the most successful game ever made
>>741762590>Cave and YK is nicheWhat the fuck are you on about. Also it certainly is more well known than Braid, and Braid shouldn't even be called niche because that was just a product of its time that's no longer remembered.
>>741762704The sad thing is, Braid got a huge content update with the remaster.Nobody bought it.
>>741752382Kek
Who is this game for?
>>741752312jon programs like a caveman, he just has impressive work ethic to offset it
>>741752312yeah jblow is regarded, alright
>>741763000>jon programs like a cavemanWhy? His code looks good to me. Way better than modern "best practices" slop.
>>741752312>is largely regardedyou don't get to say that just because you're a fatass
>>741762424I agree that he's technically great but his ego, pretentiousness, and monotone feeling toward everything that's not technical killed his fucking game.His skill would do great if he was in a team, but I don't know what made him think he could direct the game as art when he clearly isn't talented in that department.What made it worse is his attitude of "I make what I want, if you don't like it you're too retarded for me". As a dev he should try to approach a middle ground between what he wants to do and his audience's need, like who the fuck wants hours long commentary podcast in a game. This man shouldn't be going around lecturing people about indie development because he's 100% incompetent outside of programming.
>>741752312Honestly Order of the Sinking Star looks way more interesting and fun to play than the turds he made previously
How many levels in the demo. At 87 but feels like Im running out of places to look.
>>741763649It does, but I want a demake of it. If the game had the visuals of Cadence of Hyrule it would sell like 10x the copies. Seriously don't know what the heck he was thinking, except to showcase Jai, which gamers don't care about.
>>741763649idk. Had fun with the demo, but Baba Is You spoiled me when it comes to sokoban. The witness was more interesting to me so far.
>>741763686105
>>741762764Notch isn't a real developer, just a lucky modder tier guy who hasn't (can't) do anything else. Blow has succeeded in a big way multiple times now.
>>741761576I like it so far. The puzzles are a little difficult but that's just me.
Is there a dev more high off his own farts than Jon Blow? Even Kojima doesn't come even close.
>>741752312>Jonathan Blow is largely regardedcant argue with that
>>741763437>His skill would do great if he was in a teamI don't think he would work well in a team unless they are equally autistic and proficient in their specific area such that he can respect them.
>>741765056https://youtu.be/6wfMfApWk-4for good reason, he's a genius
>>741763716Order of the Sinking Star is better than Baba is You
>>741762909Me
Said no one
>>741763437caring excessively about the persona of the artist of an art piece is a sign that you want a parasocial relationship with the work itself. it doesn't matter that jon is a misanthropic cunt. what matters is he makes very, very good puzzle games.
>>741767531Not really
>>741752382dude, lmao
>>741752312Just generate a key for yourself, Jon.
>>741752312He's largely regarded as getting cranked on by Soulja boy and thats about it
>>741752382
>>741762424Jon Blow>makes and sells glorified free newgrounds flash games with 0 impact>only claim to fame is being the first to make presentable slop on XBLA>irrelevant and only fellated by pseudsToby Fox>makes acclaimed RPGs that will be remembered as timeless classicsI think I know who the genius game dev here is.
>>741759695
>>741752312Blows what?
>>741752312They ain't no point to the game you just solving puzzles and shit
>>741752312>Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all time.citation fucking needed lmao
>>741752312why does this faggot keep being posted here?
>>741769280he makes these threads himself
>>741752312>technically proficient indie developerThe rest of the points are 'lol lmao' tier but is there any other enginedev/languagedev in recent years that pits up against Blow for this one?
>>741752312My problem with JB is he is just an extreme downer and hates everything. He never seems to say anything positive and is always criticizing things. His games are all awesome though, and surprisingly uplifting. He must be secretly positive on the inside and just acting differently outwardly as a social affectation
>>741768378>with 0 impactBraid and The Witness were both very successful and influential.
>>741771775Literally who games
>>741762909Me. And a bunch of other people, seeing that it was the 15th most played demo on the Next Fest.
>>741762834Isn't all of that just dev commentary levels?
>>741771775it's funny braid had bigger cultural impact but the witness is easily the better game
>>741760809He meant 4 games. Each has more that 4 powers (mechanics) individually.
>>741759695I've seen what normal society likes, so that's a complement.
>>741763687>If the game had the visuals of Cadence of Hyrule it would sell like 10x the copiesWhy? That doesn't make any sense. Also, something like the art style of Cadence of Hyrule wouldn't work since OotSS is a 3D game.
>>741752312>Notch works for 30 hours over 1 year>surpasses anything Blow ever makes >takes a 5 year vacation after hiring people to continue working on the game and then sells the most successful game of all time for billions
>>741772725And his game unfinished as shit when he sold it and is now in arguably a worse state than before the sale.
>>741774540>is now in arguably a worse state than before the sale.There is no standard in which this is at all true.
>>741774668the terrain generation is fuckedthe performance is fucked
>>741752586They liked the rapper's take on the game. But a documentary spliced together footage in a sentimental way, and normalfags took that as reality, because that's what normalfags do. They watch edited footage and mistake it for reality. That's why whoever controls the entertainment culture in normalfag countries controls what they think.
>>741774806wrong, dumb retard.
>>741775030Retarded normalfag discovered that his perception of reality is shaped by producers of audiovisual content, and his only reaction is denial.lol
>>741774806Even the edited footage wasn't that bad. People just don't like the Blowhard.
>>741775208>he thinks that anons playing along with a meme think the meme is realdumb retard
>>741758331Eh anon....
>>741775030Don't sign your posts.
>>741774540>And his game unfinished as shit when he sold itAlready the greatest game of all time
>>741759695SOVLJABOI TELLEM
>>741752768Who?
>>741759695I don't get what sort of dunk this is supposed to be.>Creator actually publishes something for the first time in his life, realizes that the world doesn't see it the way he sees it, copesis a common story. I think Blow is being reasonable enough here in saying "it made me sad that people who liked the game didn't really connect with it in the way I was hoping they would". That's always been a thing that happens and it's never something authors like. Upton Sinclair was devastated to learn that his tale of the tragedy of the working class became a runaway success mostly because people were mortified to learn how meat canning worked. It's not like this is a new or Blow-specific phenomenon.
>>741753596nice bootleg game maker slopJonathan made games when Toby Fox was still watching Adventure Time on his fisher price tablet.
>>741752312Started watching Blow’s streams after the TGA trailer. Finished the demo, which is 10% of the full game. It took 15 hours, and 90% of the puzzles were very fun.
>>741780149Also, the visuals are really nice. The VA is preliminary, but they have some real talent performing it and it is more like FromSoft acting than a typical Western game.
>>741755032>>741763687>>741770945>Language optimized for fast compilation times, but not fast runtime execution.C has both fast compile times and runtime performance. There's even tcc if gcc -O0 isn't fast enough. Why did he even bother?
>>741781556because C is a terrible language
>>741752312too bad he only enjoys puzzle games :(
>>741781556>C has fast compile timesNot really
>>741752382lmao
>>741752382holy fucking kek
>>741752382there you have itthe official name
I have nothing against him but seeing all this praise makes me feel weird, and I bet that's one of the reasons he keeps getting shat on.
>indie game does "the walk"It's trash.
>>741786950>walkingIs this, indie games made for europeans or what?
Well I don't know. The demo is by and large the highest quality and most enjoyable demo in the Steam next fest, but that is not saying much, if anything at all.
I'm at 85 solved at 8.5 hours and getting filtered slowly. I spent way to long on the laser area, resetting and soft locking.
>>741771775Both games were successful, but neither game had any real cultural impact. People only really talked about Braid because it was pushed heavily by Microsoft during their initiative for indie game devs to publish their games on Xbox Arcade, but after that died down people stopped caring about it, as shown by no one buying the remaster of Braid.I don't see a world where John's new game has any real lasting presence or success considering he spent $30 million on a game that should only have taken $100,000-200,000 to make since he's hasn't been relevant since 2016 at the latest (2010 if we're being honest with ourselves). The dude should've just left the games industry as a whole in the mid 2010s and pivoted towards a regular software engineer job. It pays more and doesn't rely on you being popular to make money.
>math homework disguised as fairy tale starring black woman with British accentBuying both the Steam and Switch versions of course.
>>741771972Anon do you realize how abysmal that stat actually is? 15th when the competition was nodev games and single A games at the absolute peak. This is a 30 million dollar certified AA borderline AAA game. It cost over 3x E33.
>>741752312>Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all time.Nobody cares about Jonathan Blow's opinion of himself.
>>741790027E33 was developed using an off the shelve game engine. All they had to do was write some scripts.Jon Blow however had to create a whole new language and compiler to be able to program a next generation sokoban engine with which all the revolutionary gameplay of OotSS can be realized.
>>741790027>nodev single A games 30 million dollar certified AA borderline AAA gameWHO CARESIt's a fucking video games. Shut up and play it.
>>741752312>Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all time. he didnt make the binding of kino, super kino boy, the kino is nigh and kinogenics though?
>>741752382You stole that from an anon who named his screenshot as that from previous thread. FUCKING THIEF
I have one more day to solve 4 more puzzles but I'm pretty busy with work these days.Hope I can do it
>>741752382jej
>>741752312>start the game>1st thing you do is pick up a a badly placed audio diary that goes on and on and on>stand still for 3 mins waiting for it to end.why would a game designer do this?
wow I love talking about video game SALES the financial statistics surrounding video games is just the most interesting topic
>>741752382HOLY FUCKING KEK
Edmund McMillen mogs the fuck out of J Blow lol
>>741791918only hateful faggots do this who never play games in the first place and use hecking numbers to "prove" that another dev/franchise they irrationally hate out of pure inceldom is going to fail
>>741792289True. Awful artist though.
>>741790718>Jon Blow however had to create a whole new language and compiler to be able to program a next generation sokoban engine with which all the revolutionary gameplay of OotSS can be realized.He didn't have to do that. He can just use an already existing engine like Unity or Unreal or Godot to make the same exact fucking game as OotSS. He did that because he has no sense of scope and doesn't realize that spending 10 years on a Sokoban game (no matter how complex) is just retardation.
>>741767531Yeah, exactly. I think Jblow has a lot of tsundere homosexual admirers that are in deep denial
>>741752312>makes puzzle slop>balding>inflated ego>basedfacethe industry is in ruins alright
>>741752312>Jonathan Blow is largely retardedIndeed.
>Jonathan BlowI'm sure he does
>>741753596Toby Fox is a composer not a developer
>>741760809placing gems in sockets to power lasers that grant different effectsswitching between multiple heroes that each have unique abilitiesteleporting through mirrors that reflect at right anglesskipping stones across water and using them as platforms
>>741754668Braid was not very good but it was groundbreaking at the time, The Witness was good and it's been extremely influential on the puzzle genre and remains so to this day
>>741759695>that sad piano music>the fucking silhouette shotHoly fuck, why can't he even act butthurt like a normal person? Why does he have to turn everything into pretentious wank?
>>741793093>>741793337KINO!!!
>>741777360That's also not what even happened, Indie Game The Movie edited clips misleadingly. Blow was complaining about REVIEWERS not understanding his game (it's literally their job to understand the games they review), and he later said that he didn't care if players "get it" and he was happy to see a celebrity like Soulja Boy playing his game. Given Gamergate and all the incompetence and corruption of games journalists made increasingly apparent since then you'd think /v/ would be more sympathetic to his viewpoint
>>741793958ok blow
>>741793736He didn't direct the film.
>>741787995>but neither game had any real cultural impacthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLFCtg4DqrEThis video is kind of retarded and maybe you don't care about the genre so you aren't aware of this, but there are dozens of games which directly cite The Witness as inspiration. It showed developers how they could teach players the rules of a puzzle game without words, which is what most puzzle games do now>The dude should've just left the games industryIs it that hard to believe that he wants to make games even if it involves financial risk because he likes doing it
>>741752312https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqnz-7iQbY
I know this will be controversial but I don't think you should trust bald men. There has to be a reason for why God makes them bald as a warning to others.
>>741752312Lucas Pope mogs.
>>741752312he insists upon himself
>>741752312>most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all timethat'd be notchunless blow is also a billionaire
>>741769280Because he's probably the smartest figure in gaming right now, and this is a gaming board?
>>741795420>minecraft>technically proficientlmao you gaming video essay zoomers are really something special
>>741795820people here are more ESL than actual ESLs and don't know what 'technically proficient' means
>>741795820Minecraft can effortlessly simulate over 100 quadrillion units of autism.
>>741791023Sorry, but I have 14 other superior games to get through first.
>>741752312Time has NOT been kind to him goddamn
>>741753805>Braid was good in spite of the retarded atomic bomb metaphorMost midwits reverse the tenor and vehicle of metaphors, this one being a good example. The atom bomb is in service of the relationship allegory instead of the other way around.
>>741752312How hard is it to be a jewtuber like him? Does a person’s voice decide if the channel lives or dies?
>>741796279he used to be so attractive :X
>>741759695>retarded NPCs dont apreciate a work of art>>this is supposed to be a hecking dunk on the creatorinsecure nigger logic
>>741796745Just use an AI voice changer.
>>741759849/thread
>>741752312you forgot most homosexual
>>741752312Baldo has the physionomy of a medieval man-at-arms lmao
It was a mistake to focus OP on Blow and not OtSS. NPC retards swarmed the thread and made discussion impossible
>>741797173Such is the fate of any thread discussing this game.
>>741775834this is what diarrhea colored zoomoids actually believe
>>741772583>OotSS is a 3D game.Kind of...? But not really? A z-axis can be simulated in top-down 2D games. I just think the 3D isn't doing OotSS any favors in terms of readability.
>>741797483Nope we literally just had 3 threads in a row that were pretty much 100% discussing the game. Admittedly many anons already beat the demo and may have moved on sadly
>>741791706NTA but I actually invented it back when the game was first announced, because "Jai" is from jeet language. The curse of creative genius here is that you never get credit. I also invented 'imagine the smell' on /tv/, in respect to women's vaginas on game of thrones, and I invented the "is he stupid" language meme as well.
>>741793702>it was groundbreaking at the time
>>741796745https://youtu.be/WpDDXornKXI
>>741799159>I also invented 'imagine the smell' on /tv/, in respect to women's vaginas on game of thronesHuh I thought it was a /fit/ thing about women's assholes. There's one guy who keeps posting it as the first post in every thread that has a picture of a woman's ass> and I invented the "is he stupid" language meme as well.Never heard it once.Anyway you should make a social media page or smth and at least get views for these things
>>741792626Nigger, neither unity, nor unreal, nor godot can satisfy the complex requirements of OotSS' groundbreaking next-gen sokoban gameplay.
>>741752382I hate you lmao
>>741800183Unity and Unreal run like shit (alleges /v/ every day) and using Godot requires swearing allegiance to literal unironic trannies. Why would anyone use an engine if they can just make one? To give away 20%?
>>741752312Bald
>>741800324So?
>>741752312I finished Heroes of Sokoban, can I play his game too? Is it hard?
>>741752446>Most people don't want to play a puzzle game longeer than like 10 hoursDid your pc come with a robotic arm that holds a gun to your head and makes you play until you shit yourself and pass out?
>>741752312>Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all time.you mean the guy that was an autist in that one documentary and got infamously clowned on by one hit wonder soulja boy tell em?
>>741803327No he means a talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer who had a random retarded nigger talk shit about him which retarded incels on 4chan use in place of an argument against his games
>>741803118I had to use youtube to get past a few puzzles in the demo so far
>>741752312It's too hard
>>741752312He built a game engine using a programming language he created specifically for this game, gatekeeping it all in the process. Yup. I'm thinking based.
>>741807852>gatekeeping zoomer post
>>741792626That's not the point. This game exists because he wanted to make a language, not the other way around.
>>741752450how is he retarded?
>>741808269>ESL can't handle reading commonly used words.
>>741808417>zoomer thinks 'post' is spanish
>>741804456for the demo?? you're cooked, bro
>>741808417you and zoomers have no fucking clue what gatekeeping means.he stream development, shows internal code, talks about implementation details, and hands out source code.There's no "gatekeeping"
>>741798280>Kind of...? But not really?It's 100% 3D.
>>741808621Internally, it's 2D grids with z levels
>>741803118>Is it hard?I personally found Heroes of Sokoban to be the easiest of the original 4. But it's still not that hard.
>>741775416oh my god it gets funnier every time
Fuck I'm stuck again. 2 more puzzles to go. Only see 2 levels in the upper part of mirror bit but there's literally zero way to get there.
>>741808830These 2? You have finished 103 others?
>>741808520He's not "handing out" the source code; he's allowing a limited number of people access to the Jai compiler.
>>741793481He's jewish and a scumbag thief, not a composer or developer.
>>741752312The demo was some fun puzzlingnever preorder any game
>>741791862anon, you are the one controlling your button pressessimply walk forward
>>741809215Why haven't you sent your github with relevant projects for access then?
>>741752312>Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all timeAccording to John Blowhard and no one else.
>>741809316Because he's gatekeeping it to people he knows and trusts.
>>741795750>>741769280He's the new lolcow.Jon Blow thinks he's god's gift to gaming when he has LITERALLY done nothing in his life but two mediocre puzzlers. Only person more arrogant than him is Phil Fish and he had the good sense to retire.
>>741809468there's plenty of randoms not in his chat or social-circle using it.the people bitching are the ones with no projects to show.(Granted Jai is a meme lang, and it's going public probably next year anyway)
>>741808830>>741809003I'm going to bed now, but in case these are indeed the puzzles you are missing - you need to mirror yourself onto a crystal.
>>741809579https://youtu.be/6wfMfApWk-4 he's a literal genius
>>741762649No hands bought the remaster
>>741810041I did
>>741809631>there's plenty of randoms not in his chat or social-circle using it.How many is "plenty of randoms"?
>>741752382SPBP Department? Yep, got another one right here
>>741810298this was mildly amusing the very first post, but forcing it this hard because you want another meme is cringe
>>741810357stinking saar detected
Jonathan Blow really is the Ryback of indie devs. He had one okay (not even good) run and was quickly forgotten about and now he spends the rest of his days seething in irrelevance over his “misunderstood genius” while a small group of people parade him like he’s worth half a fuck and it’s genuinely impossible to tell whether these people are genuine fans of Blow or just trolls
>>741810593If you had any technical knowledge at all you'd understand why people praise him. He's a figure in the same vein as Carmack or Sweeney. If we had more engineers like him in gaming and fewer bootcamp javascript guys games might actually run.
>>741809003Yeah. And once again I had to use that pink rock. This time it didnt take me two days at least lmao.Hwelp that's all she wrote fellas Also interestingly today is the first time the game didn't lag for some reason even though I have more tabs open than ever before. So I could actually experience movement and animation the way they were supposed to be experienced and gotta say it's pretty nice and smooth. I like it.Overall 10/10 Blow is a genius as always Prolly gonna be the first game I pay for in decades (because I already have saves anyway)
>>741811046How did you beat the puzzle with the red guy, three monsters, and two crystals? Do the three monsters need to all hit each other at ones?
>>741811118Yes, protip: it's a very easy level
>>741811165How did you beat it?
>>741811118>Do the three monsters need to all hit each other at ones?>at ones>>esl>>can't solve one of the easiest levels in the gameMany such cases. SAD!
>>741752312head like a fucking orange
>>741811229Alright if you wanna never be able to say you truly beat this game: they have to be in line at the left bottom corner and the last one you push inside the line have to be the middle one
>>741811046I guess it's time to go back to baba is me, it's been forever
>>741799159Wordsmith
>>741792626Well, he probably just wanted to make an engine. There are lots of hobbyist non-game devs who make them for no reason, or want a engine around.
>>741810593Who?
>>741809740Being a genius is unironically not special. Almost all programmers are geniuses. It's a basic requirement for the job.
>>741811372Thank you.> if you wanna never be able to say you truly beat this gameNo one will know I looked up solutions :)
>>741809740>"we're going to have fusion reactors before we have better AI"listen jonny boy, I'm an AI hater too but we're never going to have fusion power. it's simply not going to happen.
>>741812192> Almost all programmers are geniusesbig kek, 90% of them today are bootcamp fags and java jeets
>>741812476(You) will. And just like the mirror guy you are now doomed to a life of regret and wondering "what if I figured it out on my own?...."
>>741812192>Almost all programmers are geniusesDelicious bait
>>741813191All equally smart than blow btw
>enter baba is (you)>can't beat a fucking level>exit>mfw
>cool gigantic sokoban game with potentially hundreds of hours of puzzles>jonathan blow goes homeless because it doesnt sellits literally a win--win
>>741809227hollywood material, really
>>741794434who did he piss off to get a hitpiece like that anyway?
>>741808671oh so an objects position is stored with a X Y and Z variable? a vec3? and then the camera also has a vec3 position for its viewport?AND THEN THE RENDERING ENGINE TURNS THIS INTO A PLAIN 2D RASTER MAYBE, LIKE LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE 3D ENGINE ON THE PLANET?
>>741814308It's a direct clip from Indie Game the Movie, which is a documentary not a hitpiece. It wasn't intended for the editing to have that effect.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SROsAt1T-4
>>741784686this nigga doesn't believe that headers, an abstraction created to cope with the tiny memory spaces of the 1960s, are appropriate to general usage in 2026let us laugh at his naivete
>>741814532>which is a documentary not a hitpieceeven a nigger isn't this stupid>wasn't intendedsure buddy (nigger)
>>741814692Alright man if you say so
>>741813480Obviously not
>>741813041the lack of fusion is entirely a political decision, there's several models that would function just fine (none are this tokamak nonsense)but then if you ACTUALLY want practical power you just build a nuclear plant. but if you want power over someone, control his access to power.
>>741760809Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire. Unfortunately, without the 5th power, they cannot combine.
>>741753596Realistically its Lucas Pope
>>741814872Fusion isn't physically possible in a way that can be controlled and harvested long term. The future is solar.
>>741752312Blow is a fag and unless there's some twist in this game it looks extremely generic.
>>741815095on a sufficiently long timeline everyone dies, panelnigger
>>741815171Blow is a millionaire who has probably had more pussy than you have teeth, retard. Rich, smart, and relatively good looking doesn't result in an incel.
>>741815478Didn't he waste heaps of money in a remake of Braid that nobody wanted?
>>741815095it literally already has been done, it's just not at the level where its practically useful
>>741815532He invested money into a (profitable) passion project. Not everything needs to be roblox slop.
>>741815726>profitable
>>741794557>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLFCtg4DqrE That nigga is one of these dicksucks that only ever talks about Jon Blow's games and is afraid to like anything that's not on his curator list because he's the holy saint of game design who invented indie gamesThe Witness is obviously great but worshipping that game is this guy's whole identity. Coining "witness-like" in a video essay where you literally only talk about how awesome Braid and The Witness were just says stockholm syndrome. You can tell that guy only played two puzzle games in his life and is now trying to cash in on the gold rush of coining a name for this knowledge-gated puzzle genre that everyone is hyping up, scraping the bottom to find a name that's worse than "metroidbrainia"
Why does Blow have beady Tim Sweeney eyes?
>>741815841men's faces get wider as they age, so you really don't want to also gain weight because it will end up making your eyes look small which activates primal danger signals in humans.
>>741752371He's the king of the retarded indie game era when all indies were pretentious bullshit that nobody cared about. Same era that had Phil Fish act like he was the best game dev in history until people shat on him and he had such a tantrum he cancelled Fez 2 and fucked offOnly guy who survived that era was Ed McMillen because he actually made good flash-style indies rather than bullshit nobody cares aboutIn this case this fag iirc made Braid which was a boring time travel puzzle platformer except with le twist that you were the villain the whole time or whatever.
>>741752312I gave it a shot for about an hour. Got to the part where you learn to use all 3 of the characters. Not worth it, and as much as I hate complaining about video games discussion on my video game board, I am 90% sure this is some kind of shill campaign
>>741816180Nobody shills on a dead porn site for neets and pirates. 4chan is the least valuable demographic possible.
>>741794557>It showed developers how they could teach players the rules of a puzzle game without words, which is what most puzzle games do nowAre you retarded? Portal and Portal 2 were doing wordless tutorials long before Witness, Half-Life 2 was doing it before then and that's without mentioning old 90s Nintendo puzzle games. Kill yourself niggerIf there are gamedevs that got "inspired by Witness it's because they have such a lack of gaming history culture that they think basic game development techniques from the 90s/early 2000s were invented by a fucking 2016 videogame then that's just genuine retardation.
>>741816350Ok but you take the idea of threads from twitter. That twitter was a shilling campaign.
>>741815841he's half mongol
>>741752382jablowney will never recover from this
>>741816576>portal was wordless dumb faggot
Blow also fucks up on the very first Thief level by not forcing the player into dragging the rock. Which fucked up a lot of normalfags playing his game, who went in circles and got confused. He harps on and on about "caring", but his demo was so sloppy with things like that, while he insisted on wasting time with voice acting.
>>741817020nigga you discover you can pull the rock in 5 seconds unless you're completely retarded, that level can't be your "great filter"
>>741816859It was, GLaDOS spends the entire game either saying random worthless shit about Enrichment Center organ donation funds or lying to youThe most instruction she ever gives you is "place cube on button" or "goo kills you" which you can literally understand from just reading the signage that makes it clear what each shit doesThe rest of the game has great level design allow players to express their intelligence without giving them any hints or solutions, it's actually better done than Witness and was done a decade earlier. Portal 2 perfected it even moreWitness just stole basic game development tips from Valve who are the ones who are known for perfecting the art of keeping immersion and never giving out explicit orders, tutorials or cutscenes unlesss absolutely necessary.
>>741817137>reading comprehension
>>741752371>the game looks like shitThis, like what the fuck The author also looks like he would've been cannon fodder from 1940s' sorry.
has anyone made an ai tool that reads 4chan threads and filters the mentally ill sharty posts?its getting kinda not worth it these days
>>741752312>Jonathan Blow is largely regarded as being the most talented, successful, and technically proficient indie developer of all time.By whom? Himself?
I'll pirate it because I don't want to install steam,if he ever puts it on GOG I will buy it there>yes I do have money and I support good games
>the gcj trannies are going thread by threadlmao
>>741818090Janny should be doing it but they're more focused on ruining the board than keeping it usable, probably to punish the chuds. There's really no where to go to discuss anything anymore. Places like this are ruined by shitposting children and jeets, and the only alternatives are reddits and resetera style gulags. Dead internet is here.
>>741817974Name a game you think looks good
>>741819090narutoforums will save us
