The Wall Street Journal says Jonathan Blow invested $180k of his own money into making Braid over a three year period. It’s a damn good game, it’s very indie, it’s totally worth the $15 asking price, and I’m left begging for more…but $180,000 dollars? Does that even still qualify as an indie game? I mean, obviously it does by definition, but that’s an insane amount of cash to unload out of pocket. Hopefully he’ll make enough back, but there’s no way he could have expected to profit off a budget like that from a niche XBLA game.

(via Kotaku)

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