# Jonathan Blow

> He made two puzzle games that sit in the gap between art installation and cryptic exam - Braid in 2008, The Witness eight years later - and both became touchstones for what an indie game could be if you pushed craft and budget past the usual ceiling.

*American video game designer and programmer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/jonathan-blow

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1971-11-17
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Blow got interested in game programming in middle school, studied computer science and English at UC Berkeley, then dropped out to start a game company that folded in the dot-com crash. He spent years as a contract developer and co-founded the Experimental Gameplay Workshop before Braid made him prominent in 2008. He poured that game's earnings into The Witness, forming Thekla Inc. and stretching development across nearly a decade until its 2016 release - another critical and commercial win. Frustrated with C++ during that long build, he began designing his own programming language, code-named Jai, now in beta, and a new game to go with it. His work runs on custom engines, costs more and takes longer than most indie projects allow, and he's become as known for sharp public opinions about the industry as for the games themselves.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 75.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 13.5 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 16.2 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 2.1 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 80.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #9
- **Total followers across platforms:** 99,300

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow (@Jonathan_Blow)
- **TWITCH**: https://www.twitch.tv/j_blow (@j_blow)
- **WEBSITE**: http://number-none.com/blow/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuoqzrsHlwv1YyPKLuMDUQ (@@jblow888, 99,300 followers)

## Sources
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow)
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- [조너선 블로](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EB%84%88%EC%84%A0_%EB%B8%94%EB%A1%9C)
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- [乔纳森·布洛](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%94%E7%BA%B3%E6%A3%AE%C2%B7%E5%B8%83%E6%B4%9B)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1154944)

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