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Designer e programador de videogames americano
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Join the roomJonathan David Blow é um designer e programador de videogames americano. Ele é mais conhecido por seu trabalho nos videogames independentes Braid (2008) e The Witness (2016). Blow ficou interessado em programação de jogos enquanto estava no ensino fundamental. Ele estudou ciência da computação e inglês na Universidade da Califórnia, Berkeley, mas desistiu para abrir uma empresa de jogos. Após o fechamento da empresa após a bolha pontocom, Blow trabalhou como contratado em desenvolvimento de jogos. Ele co-fundou o Experimental Gameplay Workshop e escreveu uma coluna técnica mensal para a revista Game Developer.
“The way I think about puzzles is a real puzzle, is something you may not ever figure out.”
“I can complain about games for my whole life.”
“A long time ago, I used to write fiction, short stories mainly. And I reached a point where I had honed my style so that it wasn't totally atrocious, and I kind of knew what I was doing when writing, and then the question was just, "What do I write about now?" And I couldn't really find anything that I felt was important enough to write about. So I just kind of gave up on writing.”
“People have this reaction, ‘Why would I be interested in a game where you just walk around and draw lines on a bunch of panels? Why is there even a world there? Why is this not just a cheap iOS game or something?’ There are very good answers to that, but you don’t want to give people those answers because you then spoil the game for them.”
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