Jon is an American video game designer and programmer that is well known for his independent games Braid and The Witness. He is also working on his own programing language known right now as JAI. John has accumulated a fan base of other game programmers and designers who share his views on coding and game design and has given many talks.
Here are a few talks at events I have collected in one place. John also has his own YouTube and Twitch channel where he talks about his work.
How To Make Indie Games In 2025 w/ Jonathan Blow
Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
Another source for Preventing the Collapse of Civilization on PeerTube
Design Decisions On Creating A Programming Language
John is talking about his new programming language to replace C++ that he calls JAI. It is being designed to be data-oriented and high performance.
GameDevGraz Q&A Session November 2017
Making Game Programming Less Terrible
Storytime at PAX East 2016
Storytime with Jonathan Blow at PAX East on May 4, 2016.
Practice 2014
Some info about “Game 3” and what his plans are after The Witness.
How to program independent games
CSUA Speech on September 12, 2013.
IndieCade 2011
Jon talks about how he designs games.
Indie Prototyping
A talk from Jonathan Blow at the Independent Games Summit where he talks about indie game prototyping on March 6 2007.
