Template:Did you know nominations/Jonathan Blow

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 04:26, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Jonathan Blow

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• ... that Jonathan Blow thought he may not have finished creating the videogame Braid were he not simultaneously learning kung fu? Source: Gaynor, Steve (February 15, 2014). "Jonathan Blow". Tone Control (Podcast). The Idle Thumbs Limited Liability Company. Event occurs at 1:20:15. Note: After some motivating comments, Jonathan states (at 1:20:34) "I don't know if I would have finished Braid if I wasn't doing kung fu."
  • ALT1: ... that Jonathan Blow created his own programming language after being frustrated at programming videogames in C++? Source: Taylor, Ivy (July 3, 2018). "Jonathan Blow: 'C++ is a weird mess'". Games Industry.biz. Gamer Network.
  • ALT2: ... that Jonathan Blow ported Doom to a set-top box? Source: Machkovech, Sam (September 17, 2015). "The man and the island: Wandering through Jonathan Blow's The Witness". Ars Technica.
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Improved to Good Article status by Neuroxic (talk). Self-nominated at 14:34, 19 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Jonathan Blow; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - Nothing really of concern according to Earwig, but in the "Public image" section, I would clarify that VentureBeat was the source that described Blow as having a "reputation for doing outstanding work".

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @Neuroxic: Nice work. Personally, I prefer ALT0 and ALT1, as I think ALT2 may not be interesting to a broad audience without specific knowledge of porting or set-top boxes. There is just one issue that needs to be addressed. Epicgenius (talk) 14:20, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

• @Epicgenius: Oops, thanks for catching the quote issue! The phrase is now in quotation marks and attributed to VentureBeat. Have I now addressed your issue? Neuroxic (talk) 03:05, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
  • Yes, everything looks good now. Thanks for fixing that. Epicgenius (talk) 13:10, 22 August 2023 (UTC)