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I vaguely remembered I read some news about Braid that it was originally developed by a single developer, and he was involved in some serious scandal/imprisoned, thus stopped developing a possible sequel. Was it true or was it about the Fez game instead of Braid? If it was true, are the new edition taken over by new dev?

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You're almost certainly thinking of Phil Fish, who did indeed leave the games industry after creating Fez, being featured in Indie Game The Movie (alongside Jon Blow of Braid, which might be the source of the confusion), and getting in a lot of spicy Twitter arguments.

I think you're thinking of someone else.

Here's the developer's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow

He created The Witness after Braid, which is another excellent game. He's been creating his own programming language for the past few years called Jai.

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