Trivia
Budget
Developer
Jonathan Blow said he invested about $180,000 of his own money in a three year period to create the game.
Inspiration
In an interview with the website Joystiq on 25th September 2008 Jonathan Blow cites the musical influences that initially lived in the same emotional neighborhood as
Braid: the album
Horse Stories by Dirty Three, the music of Lisa Gerrard, and the soundtrack to
Dead Man by Neil Young.
References
Many of
Braid's levels appear to draw their names from various cultural sources: level 3.2 -- There and Back Again -- is from fictitious hobbit Bilbo Baggins' autobiographical account of his adventures in author
J.R.R. Tolkien's
The Hobbit, while level 3.4 -- The Ground Beneath Her Feet -- is named either after a book of the same name by author
Salman Rushdie or the U2 song also inspired by the book. Level 3.6 -- Irreversible -- suspiciously shares a title with a French film told employing an unorthodox time flow, while levels 4.2 --
Jumpman -- and 6.6 --
Elevator Action -- are names of video games. (Level 6.7 -- In Another Castle -- is one of many nods this game plays to the great granddaddy of the platform genre,
Super Mario Bros.)
Awards
- GameShark
- 2009 - Best Xbox Live Arcade Game
- IGN
- 2009 - Overall Best Puzzle Game
- 2009 - Best PS3 Puzzle Game
- 2009 - Best PC Puzzle Game
Information also contributed by
Big John WV and
Sciere
