Less that 5 days left until release. You think it'll succeed?
johnathan blows big black cocks
>>749015106No, he but he wants to and he cries about not getting to do it alone in a dark room.
>>749014941>Drinks straight from the bottle >Does it during a stream/interview. Alcoholic patterns
>>749014941how many jonathans did he blowis this like a speedrun? who is he competing with? OP's mom? OP himself?nonsense, he stands no chance
>>749014941>You think it'll succeed?no
Apparently, he is somewhat popular in China.https://youtu.be/EPAGXfHkBLA
>>749014941>needs to make $25 million to BREAK EVENlol
>>749015624How the fuck does a puzzle game cost $25 million?
Odor of the Stinking Shart
>>749015670It's less the puzzle games and more the compiler and engine.Frankly I'm surprised it only cost that much.
>>749015624Between this and Braid rerelease that got the multi hours long bonus commentaries translated in X langages like if anyone gave a fuck I think this guy is legit the archetype of an idiot genius. Unbearable gigautism.
>>749015670He has a studio in high col US city and it's been in development for over a decade.
>>749015624chat, what's the chance that this game makes over 20 million?
>>749014941jonathan good?
>>749014941Crank dat soldier boy
>>749015624Oh man, I respect John for his autism and talent but his rather delusional. I guess it comes with a being a rich kid.
>>749014941I think it will do below Jon's hopes/expectations but it will be a success for it being a puzzle game.
You're gonna buy your fellow chud's game, right?https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1448439570136174592
>>749015670he gave himself $5m salaryreminder, devs getting always paid even if the game flopsit's the sad little publisher you should worry about when you buy a game
>>749016662He gave himself a salary from his own money. This guy is absolutely ruthless.
I sense in Blow the great example of interracial consequence. He's technically brilliant and thus his games are designed with interesting puzzles in mind, they are well made and optimized, but he cannot tell a story because to tell a story requires a level of spiritual coherence that is impossible in a mixed race person. Unshakable values are in disarray, so there is no confidence in storytelling.After playing Braid and his other game, this is what I felt of him. That's why his story is a question rather than an answer.
>>749016642I don't get it.
>>74901567010 years of funding a small studio in an expensive city. Also, they got an orchestra for the OST and hired a bunch of relatively known voice actors. Since every of 1000+ puzzles has dialog, this adds up.https://youtu.be/JC7hV0e63uE
>>749015624This is the guy who tells you not to use a game engine. Kind of how Notch said you weren't a real develop if you used a game engine and now he's a vibecoding shill.
>>749017654>This is the guy who tells you not to use a game engine.Not anymore.
>>749014941look at this little porker
>>749017508you don't know about the rooftop koreans? it's pretty funny you should look it up
on one hand, we get a really good elaborate indepth sokoban puzzle game.on the other hand, jonathan blowjob goes homeless because it wont make enough money.there's literally no downsides
>ok WHY ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT ME ON /v/ AGAIN>*long pause*>YOU'RE NOT SAYING ANYTHING WHEN YOU MAKE A THREAD ABOUT ME ON 4CHAN OK IT'S COMPLETELY SUPERFLUOUS>*eats nuts from bowl*>IT'S AN OUTDATED SITE BUILT WITH JAVASCRIPT OK THEY USE JAVASCRIPT>*looks through jai code*>*tries to make an edit*>*slams keyboard*>I'm done with windows>I'M DONE WITH WINDOOOOOOOWS>IF YOU'RE USING JAVASCRIPT YOU SHOULDN'T BE USING JAVASCRIPT. GO MAKE A NEW SITE WITHOUT JAVASCRIPT AND THEN TYPE ABOUT ME. YOU'RE SITE IS POORLY DESIGNED. IF YOU WANT A SITE THAT ISN'T POORLY DESIGNED, DON'T USE JAVASCRIPT
>>749017839I think it'll do fine. Thekla isn't owned by a larger corporation, so this game just needs to pay off the publisher and make okay profit on top of that. It doesn't actually need to make all the money spent on it back.
remember how the demo forced you to listen to all the dialogue before letting you finish the level
>>749014941>straight out of the bottleFuckin degenerate
I can't believe ive been waiting 10 years for this shit. sinking star better blow my socks off
>>749018007AINT GOT NO POINT
>>749018043Lmao
The Witness is the most pretentious game of all time.
gonna be the lolcow of all lolcows when his game makes like $10k
>>749014941puzzles are not games
>>749018276His dad is a millionaire and bought Jonathan a mansion and funds his vanity projects, even if it sells 0 copies he'll still keep making games.
>>749014941>In December 2025, Hazelden made a series of statements on social media both praising the game and lamenting that Blow's beliefs were not aligned with his own, specifically citing Blow's support for Donald Trump, negative views on diversity, equity and inclusion, and opinions on COVID-19 vaccinations. Ostroff and Barrett followed up with statements of agreement on their respective social media accounts. Hazelden announced that he would be using his profits from the game to fund and uplift less privileged creators.[9] After the game's demo was released and appeared to be missing credits from these contributors, Thekla said that all contributors will be acknowledged in the full game's credits as well as in information provided to MobyGames and press outlets.[5]Say what you will about Blow but he's irresponsibly based and undeniably redpilled.
>>749017745I didn't. Based Koreans.>1992 Los Angeles riotsHow often does this happen?
>>749018007Can you mentally picture the alt right polfag/sharty poster that also worships niggers and wishes a game dev to fail for some reasonI cant
>>749018551I can, actually. It's really easy.
>>749018526>1992KWAB
>>749014941I'll wait for someone else to buy it and tell me if the puzzles are at least fun. I don't get why a puzzle game needs a voice actor trailer so to me that's a bad sign. I bet it'll be even more pretentious then the shitness
>>749018774The was a 105 puzzle demo since June and until 2 weeks ago. You've had plenty of time see for yourself. You can probably still pirate it.
>>749015624>Blow will kill himself in your lifetimeFeels good man.
I'm just gonna ask AI to decompile it and remake it in Unreal Engine
do you think jonathan blow was really expecting his demo to pop off but when barely anyone cared he slowly had a realization that his time as the indie darling is over?
>>749019402But that's not what happened. The demo came out in late June and was supposed to last a week, but it was popular enough for Steam to ask them to keep it up longer. It became unavailable only 8 days ago, 12 day before launch.
>>749015624>pure development expenses>including the languageAre you rarted
>>749020150This game is made in Blow's own programming language. It'll be released some time after the game, along with its engine.
>>749014941more like jonathan blows lmao
>>749022349And yet his games are great.
>>749014941Order of the Stinking Saar
>>749022349bodied that freak
>>749022381>braid>great
Feels like the kind of game that'll get 90+ on Metacritic and it'll blow up (ha) but not quite to the extent that it'll need to.
>>749022923>Jonathan Blows>accomplished professional that made many critically acclaimed games >(you)>a seething faggot that has produced nothing of value
>>749018230frustrating as well, fuck having to redo the previous puzzle if you fail the current one
>>749014941No. It's too expensive for a game that looks like just one of those puzzle indie games.But it won't flop completely either. He's moderately well-known and people who know him will buy.I'll personally wait for a sale and then probably drop it after 10 hours, because I don't want to play a single puzzle game for 100 hours and I heard it's ridiculously huge.
>>749023245It's a poor design choice, but it doesn't happen nearly often enough for this to be frustrating.
>>749023146Hi Jonathan. Take it easy man.
>>749023035>90+ on Metacriticlol, good luck
>>749023361it happened to me within an hour of playing and it made me refund the game. the puzzles are brutal and i can't solve it in one go
>>749015624@gork please think for me is this true????
>>749014941>Order of the Stinky Saar
>>749014941>>749015178I consider myself quite the alcoholic but I think the day I start drinking wine straight from the bottle I'd have crossed a certain line.
>>749023451In this case, it's good that you got a refund in time. If you got filtered within an hour, you wouldn't have gotten far anyway.
>>749023567nevermind it said 1.6 hours, looked my review up. i think it was at the first laser and you had to do a puzzle where it got mirrored on the other side. i do not have a memory that good, so i had to essentially brute force it. i didn't want to fetch a pen and paper.
>liked Braid>didn't care for the Witness>liked Sinking Star Demo
>>749023517I'm not an alcoholic (almost never drink, never been hungover) and I do that sometimes. I don't like drinking wine from a glass, unless it's sparkling.
>>74901567010 years of salary for the dev team
>We want the Overwatch audience
>>749023848do you actually care about voice actors
>>749023910I want them to be good at their job.
>>749015106Kek
>>749015624what are the benefits of making your own engine just for puzzle games? can they possibly have that Unreal Engine 5 isn't good enough?
>>749024226He made his own programming language because he was sick of using C++, and this game was supposed to be a short proof of usability project. Also, this game apparently does something with the camera that would be hard to do in something like Unity or UE.
>>749015956i wonder if jai will really take off though. there's already zig and odin and even rust. now there's the ai "boom". jai has been mostly closed source for a while and has to overcome these hurdles to become the next go-to language. guess we'll find out soon enough
>>749015106a spike lee joint
>>749014941Is it just me or is he starting to look like Steven Seagal?
>>749024419>Also, this game apparently does something with the camera
>>749024597OotSS's engine is also getting released, open source, so this should help with Jai adoption.
I hope he fails because it would be so damn funnyReminder that he only became known for Braid and when he released a "remaster" it was basically a failure
>>749024597>now there's the ai "boom"I happened to be lucky and waited until this very time to make my own vibed language with ai. It speed'd it up the process a lot. Hope it takes off. >b-but why would you use the langu-
>>749018551I can: the place they live in? It's called /pol/. A place where jews make bait rage threads telling mixed blood Nazis to be angry at bullshit, and those spergs get banned by trooning out whites acting as mods. You. Can't. Make. This. Shit. Up.
>>749014941I'm in, this is the only game of 2026.
>>749023848But where's easy-to-work-with bald woman?
>>749024419Grok, make a pretentious sokoban with +2000 puzzles. *sharts out order of the sinking saar 2 in two hours*
>>749025123There is a hard-to-work-with bald man.
>>749024419>>749024634He invented the programming language and the camera and this is why I'm buying his game this 2026.Simple as.
>>749015106
>>749024419>Also, this game apparently does something with the camera that would be hard to do in something like Unity or UE.You can customize stuff to your tastes in these engines too
Blow was right about Elden Ring
>>749015106Nah, he's based, he even dunked on BLM monkeys.
I can't wait for this to flop so I can spam ''Order of the Stinking Stars'' xD
>>749026821It won't. There are enough The Witness fans waiting to buy this game for it to succeed. See >>749015573
>>749026910Holy shit I didn't know that. He even went the extra smile for china. This thing is going to sell a lot. I wont get to use my stupid joke :(
>>749014941I don't think it will recoup the cost, but I will be playing. I don't like Blow as a person, but he's dedicated to his craft and that's respectful.
>>749015624>>749016028>>749016213>>749017654>>749018856>poorfags who have no idea about money exposing themselves27 million for someone with his fame is nothing you mongs, it sounds big to you because you'll never see 6 digits in your life let alone 8, but he's pulling halls full of people in China (>>749015573) and has quite a lot of fans worldwide.You're deluded if you don't think it will make its money back and then some. The only question is if it will make enough to fund another similar dev cycle, but that's not needed anyway because one of the reasons this took so long is because he made his own language alongside it.
>>749023848Which one of them is the sandwich hater?
>>749027116Wait, the chinese audio only works for simplified?
>>749023439>I just hope it doesn't abruptly go bad>06/02/2025Jinxed it.
I like the cut of Jon's jib. I hope this game sells well.
Surely he regrets the rightward turn at this point?What a boneheaded move to try to grift to the right as an indie dev. These people hate art ffs.
>>749014941Not buying this game strikes me as something really funny to do and I think many will agree.
>>749014941no>marvel dialogue>serious budget going towards voice actors to fuel said marvel dialogue>ugly uninspired westoid artstyle>2D puzzle game that somehow performs worse than pragmata or resident evil villageThe demo taught me everything I needed to know about order of the sinking star, blow was lucky once with the witness and has been huffing his own farts since. He's a hackI seriously doubt anyone who enjoy sokobans will subject themselves to this humiliation ritual, there are countless games in the genre that are better. You could be playing vintage zelda games and have a more comfortable experience. In an era where games like baba is you or void stranger got made it feels insulting to see a title taking 1000 steps back
>>74902792526 million is definitely not nothing for Blow. He claims that he ran out of money for development, and had to sign a deal with a publisher (Arc Games) last years to get the game out of the door.
>>749028746>>ugly uninspired westoid artstyleGo back to your gacha slop. Your opinion isn't valuable.
>>749014941I have no interest in the game, but I want Jonathan to keep working. He's an interesting person
>>749014941>Look it up>It's some puzzle bullshit that could be made by one guy in like a year only it has the same 3D art style and colouring that every vaguely homosexual coded (I meant unironcally) indie game has to have now.>The princess or queen character also is brown despite borrowing European aesthetics and classical music Wow. Is there a single game dev who doesn't do this shit now?
>>749029104Hes in a group of about 2-3 people globally who say anything interesting about coding on youtube
>>749028857cuz baba is you is gacha slop. kys tranny
>>749029104it's kind of crazy how he triggers chuds and trannies at the same time.
>>749029806>triggers chudsHe's just an amusing lolcowBut similarly, I got nothing against him
>Claude, Code a less gay version of the game "The Sinking Star", and add 1000 levels. And make all the girls hot"10 FUCKING YEARS OF BLOW
>>749029431>despite borrowing European aestheticsThis game borrows a lot of aesthetics. Different areas have different architectural inspirations. The character you play as in the overworld is not from the gothic castle area. And the character from the Chinese looking place looks Chinese.
>>749031471
>>749014941The story and dialogue from the demo sucked ass
>>749031471Fantastic aesthetics... cant wait to play a Sokoban on these...
Total goblin death
>>749014941Looking forward to Neuro playing this in 12 years
>>749015137He's just like me fr
>>749016028If these numbers are correct and the game is going to cost $30 as reported, the steam release is only going to earn $2.5 million or about 10% of their total expenditures (even less if you subtract the 30% store cut).
Already nominated for the Best Indie Game award.https://x.com/GoldenJoysticks/status/2106006549563048057I don't think that OotSS qualifies for indie. It has too much money behind it.
>>749028857Retard.
>>749034885AA can still be indie, which is what it is.Although i really think having a publisher disqualifies you, but that's a lost battle at this point.
I'll be avoiding this board when the game comes out. I'm sure the schizos will be insufferable.
>>749027925lol, blow was kvetching about how braid anniversary edition sold like shit and they were about to run out of money because of ithe absolutely needs odor the stinking saar to be a success
>>749036518>kvetchingHe is a Christian.
>>749030859>lolcowWhat qualifies him for this title?
>you will live to see jo blow go bankrupt and be forced to blow dicks off the side of the street for money
>>749036719>He is a Christian.No wonder certain types hate him.
>>7490380974 dudes who have spent their youth trying to force the solja boy meme to become real.
>>749031471this looks like a low effort unity project
>>749036518No, having actually listened to it he said it sold below expectations but not badly and that he'd have to rebudget future stuff due to it.
>>749028782If it has a publisher, doesn't that mean it's not indie?
>>749015624>this game has almost 3x the budget that Expedition 33 hadHAHAHAHAHA
>>749039797Most of that time was put into his new programming language. Assuming he uses it for his next project, you'll have to cut that part of the budget in two
>>749015573This was interesting. I hope I can become an indie dev rock star and travel the world and sign fan autographs etc. like jblow one day.
>>749028782Those 28 million went to>OtSS>Jai the language>Braid Remaster or whatever the fuck it was calledHe's not 28mil in debt, he doesn't even need to make 28mil back to "break even" on OtSS because OtSS did not cost 28mil. Braid Remaster was a flop, no doubt about that, but now that Jai is almost 1.0 making another OtSS would probably be 10 million or less. TL:DR he only needs to fund the next dev cycle and that's just a few million dollars.
>>749041251Yeah, I know. You are preaching to the choir here.
>>749024060Then never listen to Americans dubs lmao
>>749014941I admire his retarded but impresive dedication to the craft so I hope it goes well for him, because if it doesn't it looks like it would break him
Blow is live.https://www.twitch.tv/j_blow
>>749038097him crying in a dark room because a retard made a mini-review for his pretentious game
>>749043087he's already a blowted (hah, get it) alcoholic
>>749014941Kek this faggot nigger wasted years of his life on his custom game programming language and toolset and shitFor a fucking sudoku gameAnd then fucking AI came alongAhahahaahahahahahahahahahahahah
>>749043957That's not even what happened.https://youtu.be/EPAGXfHkBLA?t=1291
>>749044181anon, that's exactly what happened the video you posted has nothing to do with what I saidI'm referring to blowjon crying in a dark room because soulja boy played braid
>>749015178I always drink straight out of the bottle, but I only drink tap water, I've never drank alcohol nor I plan on starting now that I've got fatty liver from being overweight.
>>749044291>the video you posted has nothing to do with what I saidIt does. Specifically, the time stamp.
>>749044105I'd also like to waste years of my life being self-employed and working on passion projects
>>749044413that's not the video of jon blow crying in a dark room over soulja boy playing his game anon, so no, that has nothing to do with what I said
>>749045104But it's him talking about that.
>>749045172but his talking is irrelevant to the fact that he was crying in a dark room because a retard played his game
>>749043957how unlucky does a dev have to be to have some highly prolific nigger chime in on what he thinks about your game
So is Braid Remastered recommended for a first playthrough or is the original still better?
>>749045273Because that didn't happen. It was the editing of a movie. Do you think that the Indie Game: The Movie filming crew asked to film him in his dark brooding room where he sometimes went to between sets? This is retarded.
>>749045430
>>749045353It's a great remaster. The only thing wrong with it is that the platform collision is weird. But you can just switch to Original mode if that's an issue.
>>749045601Appreciate it, if it has original mode then it's a no brainer.
Reminder that the Braid guy lays pipe.
