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.

You’re right, mechanics is not right word. How’s “cleverness” sound. You value cleverness and discovery(maybe?). Whatever it is you value, it is yours. The absolute way in which you speak is off-putting to people not in your camp. You want x doesn’t mean indie hasn’t evolved.