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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by embedding-shape on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:51AM (#46311138)
> These games are the starting point, but the bulk of the game is new puzzles combining mechanics from different games together.

> I made two free games which were later licensed to be used and remixed in this project.

Seems indeed to be the case. Blow designed (I guess) the mashup and "composition" if you will, but the puzzles themselves have all been designed and licensed by others, so seems the title of the HN submission and article is wrong. Blow didn't design these puzzles at all.

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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by shwaj on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:53PM (#46316880)
We don’t know that, AFAICT (after reading the Ars article and the Bluesky post). Some of the puzzles are probably reused, and other new ones using the same mechanics may have been written. I’m not sure why you’d so confidently state “Blow didn’t design these puzzles at all”… do you have something against him personally?
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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by frde_me on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:58PM (#46317805)
He quite literally has designed puzzles live on stream, yet you conclude he hasn't.
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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by eudamoniac on Thursday December 18, 2025 @06:06PM (#46320068)
The license was for the puzzle mechanics. Probably a few of the tutorial puzzles are the same, but Blow would not copy paste puzzles themselves. That would be both financially and artistically silly.
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