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Jonathan Blow

Jonathan David Blow is an American video game designer and programmer who became known for creating indie games Braid and Witness. As a successful game designer, Blow co-founded the investment company Indie Fund, an organization that seeks to fund and help independent game developers. Before his triumph in the video game industry, Blow had his education at the University of California, Berkley. He founded his first design company Bolt-Action but it closed operation in the year 2000.

What's interesting to me is that in terms of people who I feel are getting what my game is about - and here I'm not even talking about what the elements of the story mean, like, whatever symbolism and metaphors and things are in there. But even the structure of the game, like, there's a fundamental structure and reasons in the way things are laid out, and parts of the game that are meant to draw people's attention to certain things, regardless of what's contained in that structure. And what's interesting to me is that some people get that, and some people don't.

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There are lots of random blog posters on places like Gamespot or NeoGAF or whatever who show a clearer understanding of Braid than people who are all, "I'm all about games, and narrative and meaning, and I write a blog just to tell you about how I analyze all these things." Those people have the same hit rate as your general forum poster. So that's given me a cynical response to that whole community, which is just that, "Guys, are you sure you're qualified to do this?" And that sounds asshole-ish, and mean and snarky, but that's just how I'm feeling right now.

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In movies you have all these different genres of movie and when you go to a different genre of movie, you have different emotional expectations. They are this sort of commercial experience in that you feel like, 'I paid to go see a comedy, so this better be funny', but that is not an expectation you would have going to see a drama or going to see a documentary or whatever, right. In games we don't seem to have that. Everybody expects this fun thing out of all games.

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