David Hellman

Great googly-moogly, will you look at this.

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Today’s 1UP FM podcast is an extended conversation between Nick Suttner and Shawn Elliott of 1UP, Rod Humble of The Sims and The Marriage, and Jonathan Blow and me of Braid. It’s quite long and I haven’t listened to the whole thing yet, but what I did review seemed pretty good!

The conversation covers Braid’s story (and various efforts to make sense of it), then broadens to consider how games in general convey meaning. (If you’re not familiar with Rod’s independent projects, I suggest you check them out, especially The Marriage.)

Download the MP3 (59 MB, 2 hours long)

You can also subscribe to 1UP FM via iTunes.

UPDATE: An outline with time signatures has been written by Ben Zeigler at his blog, Double Buffered. It’s a nice reference. At the end, Ben falls asleep.

This has been up for a little while, but it was just brought to my attention last night when I met Matt Keil, Wade Beckett and Adam Sessler. Happy birthday to Adam!

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!

Bob took off his watch and it was suddenly obvious how huge it was. As you can see, it is about half the size of my head. When I put it on, it did not fit. But it is the right size for Bob.

Update: Here’s a picture showing Bob’s watch next to a normal watch.

UPDATE: Bob has been blogging his PAX experience.

Heather Chaplin’s story about Braid ran on NPR today. You can read the article here and also listen to the audio segment. (I didn’t see a way to embed the audio here … if someone knows how, please tell me.)

Heather says, “Braid feels like a game that a grown-up can play, and that a grown-up perhaps ought to play.”

It’s been gratifying to hear Braid talked about in the media since its release, but Robert Segal’s utterance of its title was for some reason way more exciting to me than anything else.

UPDATE: An NPR listener wrote in with praise for the segment.

Yahtzee Croshaw has taken on Braid in his inimitable way.

Who else is going to PAX this weekend? I’m going! At present my plan is to wander around and bump into people. If you see me, watch out!

As expected, this blog will be your #1 source for ALL THINGS PAX! Well, not really.

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