Jonathan Blow

(This is the one that I guess started a rage mob a few weeks ago when some indies decided they would forget how clickbait works if it would allow them to get mad at an enemy for a few days...!)

You seem to view games from a very mechanical lens. I lean that way myself but I think you speak in a way that comes off as dismissive when you don’t need to. You’d like to see mechanical evolution and don’t care as much about the rest. Ranting is human tho I get it.

I don't think of games as "mechanics", so I can't agree with this characterization.

You’re being sensitive to language here when you don’t need to be. Your games are very much mechanics facing.

I disagree. My last game was not about mechanics at all -- it was intentionally minimalist in terms of mechanics, and the main point of the game was outside them entirely. So I am not sure why you are saying this.