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 Send to email | The Art of Braid: A Deconstruction [Braid] in Braid Art Culture Game Design Industry jonathan blow Xbla |  By Maggie Greene
el 09-Aug-2008 |  The first time I fired up Braid on my laptop, I was immediately struck by the lovely and lush environments — 'It's like stepping into a children's book!' — that gelled together in a visually pleasing way. Puffy clouds and suns hovered over pale mountains, forests made up of brilliant yellows — whatever it's other merits or lack thereof, I loved the visual look of the game. David Hellman, who created the art for Braid, goes through the process of creating the visual look of Braid, from "programmer art glory" to finished product:
Braid had already appeared at two GDCs before I ever got involved. Jonathan Blow, its creator, showed Braid's time manipulation puzzle-platformer gameplay at a couple Experimental Gameplay Workshops, and an Independent Games Festival, where it won an award for game design. Minus some polish, it was nearly a finished game: playable, coherent and individualistic. Visually, though, it was primitive. Its blocks, spikes and ladders were utilitarian, communicating merely the elements of platformer-ness. It could have remained a visually simple game, but it already contained hints that it wanted to be more, to express itself across the full multi-media palette available to video games. ... Hired as visual artist in the summer of 2006, my challenge was not only to clearly present Braid's mechanics and behaviors, but to help tell a story that was anything but literal: part anecdote, part artifice, part philosophy.
It's an interesting article even if you're not terribly interested in Braid, as it goes through the art creation step by step with lots of screens. It's an edifying little essay. The Art Of Braid: Creating A Visual Identity For An Unusual Game [Gamasutra]
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| The Art of Braid: A Deconstruction [Braid] | | The first time I fired up Braid on my laptop, I was immediately struck by the lovely and lush environments — 'It's like stepping into a children's book!' — that gelled together in a visually pleasing way. Puffy clouds and suns hovered over pale mountains, forests made up [..] Read complete article | | Published 09-Aug-2008 by Maggie Greene in Braid Art Culture Game Design Industry jonathan blow Xbla
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| Jonathan Blow Spent $180,000 On Braid [Braid] | | You like Braid? We like Braid. Loads of people like Braid, in fact, as it's doing all kinds of excellent things to the Xbox Live Arcade sales charts at the moment. Yet creator Jonathan Blow isn't busting out the high-fives and popped co [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Aug-2008 by Luke Plunkett in braid jonathan blow News Xbox 360 Xbox Live Arcade
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| Jonathan Blow Says He Spent $180,000 On Braid [Braid] | | You like Braid? We like Braid. Loads of people like Braid, in fact, as it's doing all kinds of excellent things to the Xbox Live Arcade sales charts at the moment. Yet creator Jonathan Blow isn't busting out the high-fives and popped co [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Aug-2008 by Luke Plunkett in braid jonathan blow News Xbox 360 Xbox Live Arcade
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| Build Your Own Braid Papercraft [Braid] | | Like Braid? Like printing things out, cutting them up and then folding them together again? Do you also like cute characters with slightly-too-big square heads? Never have these three interests been more closely aligned that in Cubeecraft.com's Braid Papercraft page. C [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Aug-2008 by Stuart Houghton in braid Art Craft Culture Fan Papercraft
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| Castle Crashers And Braid Pricey For XBLA Titles [Castle Crashers] | | Those of you adding Microsoft points to your account for the upcoming releases of Braid and Castle Crashers this month might want to add a few more than the 800 a shot we're used to. According to the official Japanese Xbox 360 blog, August 6th's Braid will be setting gamers [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Jul-2008 by Mike Fahey in Castle Crashers braid Live Arcade Microsoft Points News Prices Xbla
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Capturing the essence of Jonathan Blow's Braid within a single sentence isn't the easiest thing to do, especially not [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-Aug-2008 by Ludwig Kietzmann in BraidJonathan-BlowPlatformerXBLAXbox-LiveXbox-Live-Arcade
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| Jonathan Blow talks Braid pricing |  Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Puzzle
There's a really interesting discussion going on in the comments section at Braid designer Jonathan Blow's official blog, as he attempts to explain why he's a bit disappointed the game [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Aug-2008 by Justin McElroy in braidjonathan-blowxbla
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Braid is good, but the biggest hurdle seems to be its pricing (frequently discussed lately by creator Jonathan [..] 
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We were a bit caught up in Braid hysteria earlier this week, so we thought we'd table this post until the scalding heat of our passio [..] 
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Braid is great. Braid's 1200 MS point ($15) price, on the other hand, has [..] 
