# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jonathan-blow
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:47:30.490Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jonathan-blow"
name: "Jonathan Blow"
slug: "jonathan-blow"
description: "Jonathan David Blow is an American video game designer and programmer. He is best known for his work on the independent video games Braid (2008) and The Witness (2016). Blow became interested in game programming while at middle school. He studied computer science and English at the University of California, Berkeley, but dropped out to start a game company. After the company closed following the dot-com crash, Blow worked as a game development contractor. He co-founded the Experimental Gameplay Workshop and wrote a monthly technical column for Game Developer magazine."
tagline: "American video game designer and programmer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jonathan_Blow_Gamelab_2018_crop_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1971-11-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           74.49
  momentum:             18.00773694390716
  historical:           15.71998
  currentAttention:     81.81818181818181
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 6
totalFollowers: 97100
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow"
    handle:    "Jonathan_Blow"
  - platform:  "TWITCH"
    url:       "https://www.twitch.tv/j_blow"
    handle:    "j_blow"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuoqzrsHlwv1YyPKLuMDUQ"
    handle:    "@jblow888"
    followers: 97100
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "جوناثان بلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوناثان بلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Blow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow"
    title: "Jonathan Blow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "조너선 블로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jonathan Blow"
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    title: "Jonathan Blow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джонатан Блоу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump