who is the jonathan blow of art

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Anon09/04/26, 20:22No.8033383

Has this guy done anything at all in the last 10 years?

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Anon09/04/26, 20:40No.8033395

>Made something that became very popular and is one of the faces of the medium >Is artsy fartsy and pretentious >Despite being artsy fartsy and pretentious, is quite mainstream Daniel Clowes?

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Anon09/04/26, 22:43No.8033455

idk but the Witness was a masterpiece

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Anon09/04/26, 22:49No.8033456

Considering the constant bragging of his programming prowess, I didn’t expect The Witness to run that awful on my old thinkpad.

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Anon09/05/26, 01:25No.8033534

/v/ tourist here, i'll make it easy for you guys >developed a well made and polished albeit very boring and uninspired stylistically and was also very nihlistic in nature, one of those "the point is there is no point" type of deals. he even went so far as to say he was disappointed by people "not getting" his game even though there really wasn't anything to get at all >became very popular not due to organic word of mouth but because it was part of xbox's XBLA summer of games in 2009, which means it was in a market that barely had any competition to begin with because at the time there were very few indies on XBL >the game sells well and is part of the current conversation about XBLA and the future of indie titles >fast forward a good few years >people still fondly remember trialsHD, super meat boy, limbo etc. >no one cares about or talks about braid, it's not part of any conversation whatsoever, it was just a boring platformer with a stale rewind mechanic ripped straight from prince of persia >he makes a brief appearance in indie game the movie, where he continues to complain about people "not getting" his game despite it's success and, i'm not sure who's descision this was, blows' or the director's, in any case someone thought it would be a good idea to show souljah boy fucking around in the game while jonathan blow stares in a deeply saddened silence >a few years later his new game the wtiness comes out and barely anyone plays or cares about it compared to braid due to the market becoming much more saturated with better and fresher devs >almost a decade later blow decides to release a remaster of braid, the sales are fucking abysmal pretty much confirming braid's success was purely because it came out in the right place at the right time, if he originally released the game on steam it would have been buried and forgotten about immediately, blow continues to cope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqnz-7iQbY

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Anon09/05/26, 01:27No.8033535

>present day jonathan blow is currently developing "order of the sinking star" a game that's supposed to take 20 years >"In 2018, Blow said the game had 40–50 hours of playable content. He intends for Thekla to make the game using the game engine being developed for Order of the Sinking Star, once it has matured. He plans to work on the game for 20 years, releasing it in installments. Each installment will make the game larger and more complex." >"Blow's games are known for being artistic, challenging, and not following industry trends. In a retrospective on Braid, GQ noted the game was released at a time when the market was dominated by violent and repetitive first-person shooters, yet "made an earnest effort to make an artistic statement" that went beyond this trend. >"Blow said when he makes a game, he tries to make something he would want to play and be interested in. He wants to understand the world from many perspectives, and tries to uncover and understand truths about the universe through game design." >makes a boring 2d platformer with a rewind mechanic, two things that have been in the world of game design for fucking ever >then make a first person puzzle walking sim TL;DR Blow is an insufferably pretentious and pompous developer with absolutely nothing to show for it and zero reason as to why anyone should revere him as such. Being pretentious is one thing, often times the best artist are, but to be this pretentious and this up your own ass over some of the most mid-shit imaginable is genuinely insane. Bro thinks he's fucking suda51 or something and he couldn't be further from an actual auteur like that.So anyway's, /ic/? Who's like that in your world?

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Anon09/05/26, 01:33No.8033546

go back to /v/ faggot nodraws

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Anon09/05/26, 09:50No.8033704

I mostly know Jon as the guy who is perpetually grumpy about the deskilling of the software development workforce and consequent enshittification of software. Is there even something comparable in art for there to be an equivalent person?

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