David Hellman

Well … A Braid Song. Wouldn’t want to prohibit the possibility of future Braid songs. This is a nice one, though! It’s by The Ex Box Boys. Their other songs are about things like Call of Duty 4, Gears of War, and Rock Band.

Here’s a statement from The Ex Box Boys about Braid - Counting You Up:

This song we wrote about a game that I am absolutely addicted too. It’s called Braid. I just got the game a few days ago and we ran into Robert Lang Studios in Shoreline and tracked what I think is our best song. I thought the story line was really cool and the game is filled with little puzzles and he needs to save the princess. Perfect back-drop for a love/pop song. We spent alot of time on this one and I hope that you like it.

The song can be heard on the band’s web site.

Steve Napierski of Dueling Analogs riffs on the implications of time travel.

The Braid Graphics Briefcase has some new additions!

• Animated GIFs! As seen above, these can be highly creepy. And very annoying as forum avatars!

• Animation Stacks! These are the original Photoshop files for all the characters, exactly as I delivered them to Jon for importing into the game! Every frame of every character.

• Level Icons! The black-and-white woodblock-looking icons that introduce every level are also available.

There have been a lot of calls for different-sized wallpapers, and I still intend to get around to that. Although if anyone wants to take the wallpapers that are already available and modify them to satisfy those requests, that would help me!

Check it all out here.

“They got this game, right, for people who smoke, or people who drink, like if you drink beer and you get drunk, or you smoke weed and you get high … anything, like if you just be getting fucked up. They got this game, right … this shit called Braid. Watch this shit! It about this little guy in a suit, and he walk around. Ain’t even got no point to the game, you just walk around jumping on shit. It look like Mario in the future.”
- Soulja Boy

Greatest game review of all time?

Thanks to Nick Suttner and Matt Chandronait for the tip!

Great googly-moogly, will you look at this.

Check out more incredible work by the Etch-A-Sketchist!

Behind the help desk at PAX I spotted this Braid-inspired painting. Apparently it will be in some auction somewhere? Um, yep, that’s all the info I have.

I’m trying to get in touch with the painter… Haven’t heard back yet. Would have been fun to meet at the show!

In response to the great fan creations, we’re making available some graphics from Braid. These are the original images created for the game, so … they should look familiar! Sometimes they are at higher resolution than you have seen. Anyway, please enjoy them however you like!

Click here for the collection!

I have really no idea how much use people will find from these. Please comment if you have some suggestions about what else we could offer.

Following Penny Arcade, a couple more web comics have seen fit to trivialize my work. Great stuff! Please make more.

• Bears of War by Mr. Herring

• Chainsawsuit by Kris Straub

Great work by Bill Mudron! Check out his portfolio at Excelsior Studios!

Chris Beaumont of Cubeecraft.com has made some wonderous 3D paper art inspired by Braid. Download, print, cut, fold, and carry on imaginary conversations with your new friends.

Click for full size:

And check out the rest of Cubeecraft.com!