Braid

Xbox Live Arcade breakout that made the auteur indie download a commercially serious category.

Released 2008 Developer Number None Publisher Xbox Game Studios Platform Xbox 360 Genre Puzzle-platformer Era Digital storefronts & indie

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Braid inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Continuous Scrolling Playfield ~~1980~~Momentum-Based Platform Control ~~1985~~Rigid-Body Puzzle Physics ~~2004~~

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