>Spends 20 million dollars making his own programming language to make his own game engine to make a shitty Sokoban clone that still isn't finished.

>>715405308 (OP)
Better than spending 20 years fapping to hentai

>>715405308 (OP)
Johnthon blow is my friend. He's a cuddle bug and I take care of him.

no idea what OP is yappin about but that’s a lot of money.
wish I had 100k for a nice car.

>>715405308 (OP)
The Witness was pretty cool imo so all is forgiven.

>>715405308 (OP)
based based based based baaaaased

>>715405567
halo 3 is gangsta

i wish he was my uncle

I met Jon Blow at an In and Out.

>>715405801
>The Witness was pretty cool imo so all is forgiven.
joblows problem is that he cant stand people liking parts of his creations that are not the things he also likes about that creation
in braid people thought it was fun
but not for the reason he did, so he made the witness
in the witness people thought it was fun
but not for the reason he did so he made an entirely new language just to build the greatest game ever
and now, finally, no one gives a fuck about anything he is doing so he doesnt have to worry about people caring about the "wrong" thing and he can just move on with his li-
oh he lost all his money having everything translated and voice acted in every language on the planet for a remaster of a game no one likes THAT much especially not after all this time...
time to shove the Sokoban clone onto steam in early access for $30

>>715405308 (OP)
blow really doing a shitty job at avoiding the sniffing-your-own-asshole pitfall that many successful devs fall into

he's forgotten how to ship a game

Jon Blow is based.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alfCi8QoZQ8

>>715410163
it was weird that he thought Braid had cultural cachet in the first place. Doesn't he know he just got lucky by having early-mover advantage as a burgeoning wider interest in indies was taking off? Braid wouldn't sell 10000 copies if it was first released today, its success was almost entirely a function of timing

>>715410163
Didn't read, but that's not his problem, it's just a bunch of your problems.

>a washed up rapped BTFO him so hard that he cries
KWAB.

>>715410163
>joblows problem is that he cant stand people liking parts of his creations that are not the things he also likes about that creation
Based on what? I've watched a bunch of videos of him talking and he never said that.
>in braid people thought it was fun
but not for the reason he did, so he made the witness
I don't think that's why he made the witness.
>in the witness people thought it was fun
but not for the reason he did so he made an entirely new language just to build the greatest game ever
I don't think that's why he made a programming language.
>and now, finally, no one gives a fuck about anything he is doing so he doesnt have to worry about people caring about the "wrong" thing and he can just move on with his li-
----- ?
>oh he lost all his money having everything translated and voice acted in every language on the planet for a remaster of a game no one likes THAT much especially not after all this time...
I doubt he lost all his money.
>time to shove the Sokoban clone onto steam in early access for $30
Did that actually happen?

must be nice being an autist subsidized by your dad
like dorito pope buying his friendship with kojimbo

>>715405801
Isn't that the game with a cutscene of him eating a cracker and taking a nap outside?

did you know it's pronounced "blerve"?

Why doesn't he just do the Jai public beta already?

>>715405308 (OP)
Why would it cost 20 million to make your own engine? Is he overpaying himself?

>>715411702
could've spent 20 years jerking off and there would still be the same impact as of the time of this post (2k12+13)

>>715405308 (OP)
Better than spending 20 years greentexting on /v/

>>715411702
I hate this wanky shit. dickheads like him think they got ahead because they worked hard and not because he got lucky. Braid was not revolutionary or all that unique when it came out, he just got lucky with marketing and it got enough of a push to be succesful. He's literally incapable of reproducing this succes today because the market is so much more flooded and you need to be even luckier to succeed. It's not some factor of working more hours means more success and more money, for most people in most jobs, this isn't remotely true. You get promoted and raises for networking with higher ups and sticking around long enough, not working harder or better than anyone else.
>>715416679
I wonder if he just lies for attention or he actually managed to piss away the budget for a modern AAA release fucking around "making" his programing language and game. Must be nice to be so rich you can literally set money on fire and it doesn't affect you in the slightest.

>>715418386
I thought he pissed the money away on paying lots of salaries of people working on game 3, and the programming language sokoban is some other shit he ended up doing for unrelated reasons

>>715405308 (OP)
lol he's always shitting on modern programmers and languages. Looks like he doesnt really know what he's talking about.

>>715419046
He seems to go lose with money, when making Braid he spent a lot of money for back then and in some interview he mention people close to him taught he should have bought a house with that money instead. Then again after Braid he spent a lot of money with programmers on The Witness, same now with Jai and his sokoban game where he's been paying full time programmers for a few years already. Never seems to run out of money so he's not dumb with it though.

>>715405308 (OP)

>>715418386
>because they worked hard and not because he got lucky
it's a combination of both. being lucky doesn't mean shit if you sit on your ass all day doing nothing. People like Blow work 14+ hours a day on their stuff

>>715418386
>and not because he got lucky
It is clearly a combination of both.

>>715405308 (OP)
Watch his keynote speech at LambdaConf. Jai looks interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdpD5QIVOKQ

jb based, makes pure ludo and makes trannies and weebs seethe

he has not made a good game

heavily autistic people are terrible game designers and need a creative schizophrenic to sort that stuff out. otherwise you just get some autistic basket-weaving recreation of previous games the autist has played

>>715405308 (OP)
The other day I was looking for the video where he defeatedly admits to wasting millions of dollars developing his game that doesnt eve look out of alpha yet. Anyone have it? Its so fucking funny.
Hes like the opposite of shitty DEI vibe code hires where he is so anal about technical details he doesnt get shit done.

>>715405308 (OP)
Man, these creative types are weird.
Half of them want to reinvent the wheel and do everything by themselves, while the other half are saying AI is the future and that it's better than 95% of people

>>715405394
No, if you spent 20 years fapping you'd likely still have at least $19 million left

>>715411702
>>715420582
The dude just talks a lot and points fingers but doesnt have much to show for it. Wouldnt surprise me if he browses /v/

Fuck Windows 11.

BlowOS when?

I would do the same thing if I had $20 million.

>>715422250
>all the inane chimpouts that come from fossfaggotry but without the actual free and open source part
looking forward to a completely new filesystem that can use arbitrary tokens to delimit folders

>>715405308 (OP)
Zased. Meanwhile gorillion dollar corporations shit out things that are half finished and asks you to buy so they can finish it in patches.

How do you spend millions on developing a socoban? Does it have detailed sex system with advanced fluid and skin simulation or something?

>>715410163
>joblows problem is that he cant stand people liking parts of his creations that are not the things he also likes about that creation
Not really, he just got annoyed at people claiming to know what the hidden meaning of it was.

>>715405415
Wholesome.

>>715405308 (OP)
At least Jai seems very promising, if he ever releases it.

>>715405308 (OP)
How did it cost 20 million? How many people does he employ?

>>715421905
>the other half are saying AI is the future and that it's better than 95% of people
no-one creative has ever said that

>>715405801
>line puzzle game
Sorry but it’s not good

>>715405308 (OP)
all of these youtube devs are people who dont actually do jack shit. The real productive devs are the ones you never hear about.

>>715428852
blow mostly programs on twitch

>>715405394
nah someone I fap to Western or JAV porns too

>>715405394
No I unironically think that's a better use of time.

>>715423868
by writing it from scratch using a compiler you also made from scratch for a language that is supposed to rival C++

>>715405308 (OP)
Why not release his game engine?

>>715411803
With people blowing smoke up his ass for years on end he probably started believing the hype.

>>715418386
He got ahead because he is very talented and hard working. If he had your brain, but everything else was equal he wouldn't have amounted to shit, even with all the luck in the world.

>>715419929
>He seems to go lose with money
He invested money into making a lot of additional content for the Braid re-release. That's not being lose with money, that's investing in something that doesn't work out. Being lose with money is buying the most expensive office in the most expensive skyscraper and throwing lavish parties every other week because you want to be a rockstar programmer who's going to make you his bitch.

>>715431945
>That's not being lose with money, that's investing in something that doesn't work out
Literally anyone could have figured out that Braid would do badly if released today. The only reason it was success in the first place was due to being at the right time and place.

>>715411702
>Can't clock out at 5 every day if you want to be in the Olympics
>Rest and nutrition is the most important part of skill building and conditioning
Ya he's a pseud bro. Grow up.

>>715412320
>joblows problem is that he cant stand people liking parts of his creations that are not the things he also likes about that creation
>Based on what? I've watched a bunch of videos of him talking and he never said that.

Dude he was notorious in the early days for being horrible to any critic and a completely obsessed retard. It's in the goddamn documentary that started his whole cult of retards like you. If you're gonna gargle his balls at least read the holy text.

>>715421729
Quality entertainment
https://youtu.be/8KR5i98aCy0

>>715422181
streaming on twitch has unironically given him a bit of brainrot. He was expecting the same obligatory claps and awes that his CS freshmen audience give him.
But he forgot to actually make a case for his language, when he's at a conf that historically are used to seeing cutting edge programming languages and projects.

>>715423868
He juggles too many projects. Besides sokoban, he was also working on some VR rhythm game and also some unknown fantasy thing. But letting sokoban bloat to like a 1000 levels was also not smart, when he should have feature/content froze and saved new ones for DLC/ future updates.

>>715429069
It's certainly a better use of money.

his sokoban probably gets mogged by game maker slop, mechanics don't matter its just about puzzle design

>>715421905
>AI is ... better than 95% of people
It actually is. The problem is 95th percentile is still garbage. If you put the slightest effort into systematically improving your skill you'll do better. AI robs you of your chance to improve.

>>715405308 (OP)
I'm interested in the Sokoban game for the supposed scale. 700+ levels, some levels being over 8 hours in length. Sounds ridiculous but interesting.

>>715405308 (OP)
My favorite story from him is that for the Braid remaster he spent money on new localization for the Chinks, Gooks, and Japs, only for them to complain that it was worse than the original Microsoft localization because it was borderline machine translation quality.
He ended up reverting the new localization for those languages but out of petty revenge or something the new content(commentary) ended up not getting any translation or localization as a result.

>>715433663
>some levels being over 8 hours in length
Sounds tedious.

>>715433935
>out of petty revenge or something
Money, anon. It takes time (and thus money) to translate stuff.

>>715433978
He could have just left the shitty new translation for the new remaster content while reverting the rest.

>>715405394
Imagine if you had 20 million dollars to spend on commissioning your favorite artists to make tailor made hentai for you.

>>715420582
Making it as easy as possible to see where you fuck up in a program is neat.

>>715434283
But that translation was very bad quality-wise.
And it's better for marketing purposes to have no translation rather then a bad one.

>>715405308 (OP)
jai is legitimately a really interesting language
but he should release a version so people can play with it and give quick feedback to make it usable sooner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdpD5QIVOKQ

>>715434510
There's already a private beta with a few hundred people.

>>715416046
he's probably trying to get sokoban done asap so money starts coming in again

if he focuses on jai, then sokoban would take like 2 more years
he really should have broken up sokoban into 3 parts, who says people even care enough about 2000000 puzzles? give us 200 and go from there...

>>715434572
and what did they say.
does blow have a cult like godot where they will refuse to see any faults

>>715434643
He's had a few QA streams where people in the beta have a private chat and ask questions, you can probably find them on his youtube or twitch channel.

>>715434572
few hundred isn't enough to battle test a language
at this pace it'll be finally usable in 2030...

>>715434862
can't you just summarise for us?
I'm not watching 6hrs of him coding and answering questions to get a feel for the current state

>>715405394
I spent 20 years fapping to hentai and now I'm going to spend the next 20 years fapping to AI.

Blow is a pretentious moron, but he has integrity and standards - something that applies to a small, ever decreasing percentage of people working in the gaming industry - and for this I think he deserves respect.

Why would you make ~1000 levels sokoban? There's no way pacing won't be shit where new mechanics and challenges introduced once per 70-100 levels instead of every 5.
Something like 40-50 levels with a detailed level editor would be more than enough.

I always find it funny how when you listen to him in interviews he always discusses these high minded ideas and tries to really push the boundaries of video games, and then you look at his actual output and he's made a Mario-clone with a rewind mechanic and a puzzle game.

>>715405308 (OP)
Developers like Blow don't care about the presentability and what's visible to the end user all that much. The game needs to be exactly the way they want it to be, including its internal workings. They would happily choose the most time-consuming and arcane way of implementing something if it's elegant or has optimal performance. Whether optimal performance is actually necessary or whether it's possible to get 90% of the way there with 10% of effort and time involved doesn't matter to them. It's obsession with perfection, but in a very self-centered way. They'd rather make a game that meets their own standards of good technical workmanship than something other people think is good and fun to play. I think that's fine, except when they don't realize that's what they're doing and expect other people's preferences to be the same as theirs, as seen in his spergout at Balatro. TL;DR: it's basically autism.

>>715405308 (OP)
I think he is very much a retard for making an 800 hour sokobon game. Its fine as a side project but that shit is gonna make him go bankrupt.

Didn't this dude get btfoed by Chamillionare?

>>715436541
I don't think he gives two shits about streamers.

>>715420523
>>715420440
there's a million other indie games made by devs that quit their day jobs, worked on it every day, working 80 hour weeks and despite in many cases making a higher quality product, it just never gets the viral marketing needed to be a success. For every single success story like Blows, there's hundreds if not thousands of people that worked just as hard and failed. Most people work long hard hours, "hard work" is not the deciding factor for the success of a game 9/10 times. just look at every viral itch.io horror game that was made in 10 hours

>>715438761
>there's a million other indie games made by devs that quit their day jobs, worked on it every day, working 80 hour weeks and despite in many cases making a higher quality product
Name three.

>>715434379
It would be cool if I can't use it for anything else because I would never spend that much on porn unless I'm a billionaire, at which point I would probably already fuck enslaved quadrupple amputeed orphans on an island.

I would pump that into a hentai studio, making the your name of porn. It would be impossible to recoup that investment, but I guess that's kinda the point.
Maybe make something highly illegal like using the Pokemon IP

>>715405308 (OP)
Made a lot of money from early success. Decided to invest most of it into his own company so he could work on things that he find meaningful. Sounds pretty based to me.

>>715421905
vocal minority.

>>715418386
Yeah, The Witness is a masterpiece, i will give him that. But Braid? Had it come even 5 years later, no one would have cared. Back in that day, the very fact you were making an indie game got you attention.

>>715412320
>Based on what?
based on the fact that the souja boy video lives rent free in his head to this day
based on the fact that no one who played the witness gave a fuck about the story or the world or event he puzzles they just thought it looked pretty
https://youtu.be/gWqnz-7iQbY?feature=shared&t=185
>I doubt he lost all his money.
https://youtu.be/8KR5i98aCy0?feature=shared&t=335

>>715423897
thanks for rewording what i said and then agreeing with yourself.

>>715421905
You kind of need to be a little weird to do stuff like that, same with business too. You need a very driven person. It doesn't its always gonna work out tho

>>715405308 (OP)
the logical conxclusion of "youre not a real programer if youre using unreal/unity"

>>715405308 (OP)
Lmao the guy who created Python did it in like two weeks what's taking this retard so long?

>>715441376
That's just editing. He's not even talking about soulja boi. You're a retard, sorry..