Category Archives: Ill-Advised Rants

Interview about The Witness and related design topics

By Jonathan Blow | Published: February 1, 2013

On January 31, 2013, Tom McShea of Gamespot interviewed me as part of their Break Room Interview series. It was an interesting conversation! Here’s the interview.

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Thoughts about App Store ‘Curation’

By Jonathan Blow | Published: January 15, 2013

Last week, Jeff Grubb from VentureBeat emailed me a question for an article he was writing, prompted by Apple’s rejection of Endgame: Syria. Sometimes questions like this are good excuses for me to figure out what I really think. Jeff asked me about this part of the iOS App Store’s Developer Terms of Service: We [...]

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Thoughts on Consoles and Certification Processes

By Jonathan Blow | Published: July 24, 2012

Last weekend I wrote an email to Kyle Orland of Ars Technica in response to a question about an independent game’s certification troubles. That letter was quoted in this article, which was then summarized by gameindustry.biz, and is probably floating elsewhere around the internet too. The original letter went through a few examples of specific [...]

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How to program independent games

By Jonathan Blow | Published: June 22, 2011

On April 1, 2011, I was invited by UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Undergraduate Association to come give a speech. This was pretty interesting because that’s where I went to school, and I was once a member of the CSUA. I approached it this way: if I were going back to speak to my undergraduate self, [...]

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CVG appear to be a bunch of lousy hacks.

By Jonathan Blow | Published: December 22, 2010

Recently, on a visit to England, Chris Hecker and I did an interview with Edge magazine. It was a long interview where we spoke freely on many topics, while having a good time. Afterward, the interviewer and the editors of Edge did a very good job editing down the interview and distilling it into its [...]

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