Game Dev Conversation with Jonathan Blow on Game Design, Meditation, Books, Everythings,…

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Books and movies Jonathan talked about in the video:

Books:

Non-Fiction

  • Henry Warren – Hacker’s Delight
  • Stephen Wolfram – A New Kind of Science

Fiction

  • China Miéville – The City & the City
  • Olaf Stapledon – First and last man & Last men in London, and various
  • Ted Chiang – Exhalation: Stories, Collections of Short Stories
  • Squaring the circle
  • Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities

Comics

  • Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics
  • Doxiadis & Papadimitriou – Logicomix

Inspirations

  • Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow
  • Italo Calvino – Cosmicomics
  • Alan Lightman – Einstein’s Dreams

Interesting Formats

  • Tom Phillips – A Humument
  • Milorad Pavic – Dictionary of the Khazars
  • Milorad Pavic – Landscape Painted with Tea

Movies/Documentaries:

  • Apollo 11 (2019 documentary film)
  • Deadwood – TV series
  • Pitch Meeting by Ryan George Youtube Show

Favorite Movies:

  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) by Richter
  • Excalibur (1981) by John Boorman
  • Mulholland Drive (2002) by David Lynch

Follow Jonathan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow

Follow Jonathan on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/j_blow

This talk was recorded during a Twitch live stream in April 2020 via http://twitch.tv/joeyprink