here is a link to a new interview posted yesterday at eurogamer:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-12-14-jonathan-blow-in-his-own-words-interview

“Jonathan Blow in his own words; The Braid creator in his most revealing interview yet.”
-Eurogamer.com *uhh, controversial*

several things you said about The Witness, sound a lot like what the game Looming was trying to do. the whole thing of… well a lot of things, is a good game, you can passe it in less than an hour, if any of you want to get an idea of the conceps jon talks about, here is the link:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/541333

i liked it…. it gave me a good vive.

Come with me, in our dreams we’ll dance,
A two-step to tamper time.
A foxtrot, once done, will still the sun,
In it’s journey across the sky.

Oh when the sun descends, we’ll see all our friends,
And we can laugh, and love, and lie.
Oh let the sun descend so we can be together again,
And then time can pass us by.

A quick waltz step, while a unique concept,
Just slows things to a grind.
A mamba will, maybe your dreams fulfill,
If you seek the power to rewind.

Oh when the sun descends, we’ll see all our friends,
And we can laugh, and love, and lie.
Oh let the sun descend so we can be together again,
And then time can pass us by.

But the tango’s grace, to make time race,
Is likely the greatest of them all.
Because all people do, end up hastening to,
See the sun make its final fall.

See as the sun descends, our long lost friends,
Aren’t so lost, by and by.
Now that we’re at the end, I think I’d rather spend,
Time with those whom time passed by.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ThisWitness

the videos have some lovelyy music.

What’s so bothersome about Dragon Quest and Peggle? Well, a lot of things. But I would say one of the scarier things is the illusion they create. It’s an illusion of depth/strategy/mastery – Dragon Quest does it by showing you numbers that go up, and Peggle does it by flattering your skill when all you have (all you can have) is luck.

Memorization is another way of creating the illusion of mastery. You can complete a bunch of levels and get that feeling of improvement. And verily, you have improved *something*, something that SMB and Ikaruga embroider with beautiful visuals, brilliant setpieces, some very sticky frictions, and occasionally highly interesting puzzles. But memorization is dispassionate – it’s just buttons, rather than ideas. I’m not articulating this so well, but do you know what I mean?

In Hyper (an Australian games magazine), they explained how they usually get some piece of paper in front of the game disk that says something like “Don’t spoil such and such for the readers or we’ll wave layers at you”. They find this incredibly insulting, as they are all gamers, and they have the sense of what not to spoil (most of the time). They also find it very annoying, because they have suddenly had the experience spoiled for them, ironically, by the very people warning them not to spoil anything. Once again, like the reviewers aren’t actually gamers themselves.

So, I guess if there’s something you think shouldn’t be spoiled (and it’s not obvious that it shouldn’t), maybe put it in an envelope, and ask them not to open it till they have seen all the spoilers themselves.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6224/catching_up_with_jonathan_blow.php

go read it, its preatty intresting! is about… oh.. i dunno i haven’t read it yet, i’m just reporting… but every time he gives an interview, it;s always mind-expanding and stuff….