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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by tzcnt on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:10PM (#46317124)
I found them quite boring since they are all repetitions on the same theme - just drawing lines on a square. It could have been a mobile game. The world doesn't feel connected to the puzzles, and the exploration aspect of it could have been a completely separate game. It feels like two games glued together, which is IMO not a good design.

It's also not a game that's very demanding from a technical performance perspective, and really has very limited numbers of active entities / animations, so why should I care about his opinions on game architecture or anything else?

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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by 0x1ceb00da on Friday December 19, 2025 @12:13AM (#46322461)
> I found them quite boring since they are all repetitions on the same theme - just drawing lines on a square.

And programming is just pressing buttons on a keyboard.

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Re:Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 p... by sean_bright on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @10:46AM (#46376540)
> It could have been a mobile game.

I tried to play it on iOS and found the controls clunky. Interacting with some of the puzzles was difficult with my thumbs in the way.

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