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# Jonathan Blow, creator of quintessential indie game Braid, disowns indie scene
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/jonathan-blow-creator-quintessential-indie-game-braid-disowns-indie-scene/
- Published: 2014-06-06T15:16:54.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:50:39.000Z
- Description: An island unto himself.
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Braid, indie, Jonathan Blow, Lucas Pope, Michael Brough, The Witness, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

File this one under the continued diaspora of the indie games scene. Jonathan Blow—star of *Indie Game: The Movie* and creator of *Braid*, the standout existential platformer that in many ways exemplifies your stereotypical indie title—says he’s not a part of this whole indie game scene thing.

[Interviewing with Gamasutra](http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/218953/The%5FWitness%5FModeling%5Fepiphany.php?ref=killscreen.com) about his upcoming *The Witness*, the ever-prickly Blow said:

> I’m not really in the “independent gaming scene.” I think a lot of indie developers don’t like me anyway, because I’m very critical…. People probably perceive it in a negative way, but I honestly say what I think about games, and I honestly say if I think something is good or not, and why.

But Blow seems to foster a similar animosity for big corporate game studios.

> I don’t want a giant game company. When companies grow big fast, you get a lot of mediocrity and badness. My model is to keep the team very small, and just do a lot.

So where does that leave one of the preeminent “indie” game makers of our time? Well, in the same place as a lot of other preeminent “indie” game makers. Previously, [Michael Brough](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/news/michael-brough-wants-know-whats-indie-scene-you-speak/?ref=killscreen.com) and [Lucas Pope](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/news/papers-pleases-lucas-pope-says/?ref=killscreen.com) have expressed similar anti-indie sentiments. And as we pointed out in a recent [PBS Game/Show episode](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/new-pbsgame-show-asks-if-indie-games-are-bigger-indie/?ref=killscreen.com), indie games encompass such a broad range of games and people and mega-corporations that it’s impossible for there to be a common thread.