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I suppose if it was easy and fast to swap out the old textures for the new ones? Odd that Blow would assume giant sales for the game. It barely registered in m

I suppose if it was easy and fast to swap out the old textures for the new ones? Odd that Blow would assume giant sales for the game. It barely registered in my radar, plus it was a big hit on release. I wasn't really looking to buy it again. It's a puzzle game, I remember playing it for months back in the day, but I now know the solutions.

arkades 2y ago
It wasn’t a simple texture swap. They added 40 new levels.
- kranke155 2y ago
  Ah I didn't know. I'm sorry for Blow. I really loved Braid when it came out.
refulgentis 2y ago
> Odd that Blow would assume giant sales for the game. Did they?
- PKop 2y ago
  They?
  - refulgentis 2y ago
    Blow
    - PKop 2y ago
      Yea him. "Did he?" is the proper way to say it given that he's a man.
      - refulgentis 2y ago
        Oh I thought it was a company lol, headline is cut off on mobile. https://imgur.com/a/PhFDyAC https://imgur.com/a/PhFDyAC Btw it's really amazing there's a volunteer anti-they pronoun police in the comments now. Thank you. Really good example of how you getting annoyed at something turns you into the something. It's pretty natural in English to use "they" in those contexts, policing it doesn't mean you're fixing some programming I got.
- hbosch 2y ago
  Quote: "It's not like we sold a million copies day one or whatever, which is what you expect."
  - santoshalper 2y ago
    That is very misleading. He is specifically referring to NOT expecting to sell a million copies.
  - refulgentis 2y ago
    Right, thank you, they didn't expect to sell a million copies day 1 or whatever.
- jsnell 2y ago
  From the quotes in the article, it sure sounds like he was expecting this re-release to save his company. > None, because we can't afford to pay anyone because the sales are bad.
  - refulgentis 2y ago
    That doesn't say they expected sales to be good. It says they don't have money to pay someone to work on the orthogonal programming language thingy.
    - jsnell 2y ago
      It's saying they don't have the money to pay anyone. Not that they have money to pay for game development but not other things. The bad sales of this game are stated to be the reason they can't afford to pay anyone. If they didn't expect sales to be good, they sure wouldn't have expected to be able to pay salaries for a dozen SF-based devs with the proceeds. And if they didn't expect that, they couldn't blame the bad sales for not being able to pay staff.
      - refulgentis 2y ago
        As a naive reader (and now re-reader), I don't understand what this is other than more layers of hypothetical in service of inventing thoughts other people had. Maybe you have more lore than the article, ex. dozen SF-based devs? Happy to hear more.

arkades 2y ago

It wasn’t a simple texture swap. They added 40 new levels.

kranke155 2y ago
Ah I didn't know. I'm sorry for Blow. I really loved Braid when it came out.

refulgentis 2y ago

> Odd that Blow would assume giant sales for the game. Did they?

PKop 2y ago
They?
- refulgentis 2y ago
  Blow
  - PKop 2y ago
    Yea him. "Did he?" is the proper way to say it given that he's a man.
    - refulgentis 2y ago
      Oh I thought it was a company lol, headline is cut off on mobile. https://imgur.com/a/PhFDyAC https://imgur.com/a/PhFDyAC Btw it's really amazing there's a volunteer anti-they pronoun police in the comments now. Thank you. Really good example of how you getting annoyed at something turns you into the something. It's pretty natural in English to use "they" in those contexts, policing it doesn't mean you're fixing some programming I got.
hbosch 2y ago
Quote: "It's not like we sold a million copies day one or whatever, which is what you expect."
- santoshalper 2y ago
  That is very misleading. He is specifically referring to NOT expecting to sell a million copies.
- refulgentis 2y ago
  Right, thank you, they didn't expect to sell a million copies day 1 or whatever.
jsnell 2y ago
From the quotes in the article, it sure sounds like he was expecting this re-release to save his company. > None, because we can't afford to pay anyone because the sales are bad.
- refulgentis 2y ago
  That doesn't say they expected sales to be good. It says they don't have money to pay someone to work on the orthogonal programming language thingy.
  - jsnell 2y ago
    It's saying they don't have the money to pay anyone. Not that they have money to pay for game development but not other things. The bad sales of this game are stated to be the reason they can't afford to pay anyone. If they didn't expect sales to be good, they sure wouldn't have expected to be able to pay salaries for a dozen SF-based devs with the proceeds. And if they didn't expect that, they couldn't blame the bad sales for not being able to pay staff.
    - refulgentis 2y ago
      As a naive reader (and now re-reader), I don't understand what this is other than more layers of hypothetical in service of inventing thoughts other people had. Maybe you have more lore than the article, ex. dozen SF-based devs? Happy to hear more.