The Witness - from the creator of Braid

An exploration-puzzle game on an uninhabited island.

To be released on multiple platforms — whatever makes sense in late 2011, when the game will hopefully be finished.

Blog: http://the-witness.net/news/

Concept art:

Excited! Although I wouldn't care if it was by anyone else.

As long as there's no overly pretentious storyline this time.

Oh who am I kidding, of course there will be.

The concept art reminds me of Myst.

Rogue Tomato wrote:The concept art reminds me of Myst.

The concept reminds me of Myst.

I should probably get around to finishing Braid.

So long as it doesn't play like Myst...

Fatal Exception wrote:
Rogue Tomato wrote:The concept art reminds me of Myst.

The concept reminds me of Myst.

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The reminds me of Myst.

I didn't even know he was making another game. Jonathan Blow is going to be so strawberry floating rich in a couple of years if he can bring out a couple of games of Braid's quality. I can see this selling really well now he's made a bit of a name for himself.

I envy him so much. :lol:

Fatal Exception wrote:
Rogue Tomato wrote:The concept art reminds me of Myst.

The concept reminds me of Myst.

My first thought was Professor Layton goes to the Lost island but Myst seems a much better comparison alright.

An atmospheric exploration and puzzle based game on a creepy uninhabited island?

Where do I sign?

Well it's safe to say that the concept art doesn't excite me at all. The words "from the creator of Braid", though, really do, so I'll be following this one closely.

Look forward to it.

MEGA BUMP.

Swiped from GAF via PS Blog. 1080p versions here.

Jonathan Blow wrote:It has been a while since we made a post on PlayStation.Blog, so I thought I would give an update about what we are working on.

The Witness takes place on an island full of puzzles. The island is an open world; you can go anywhere you want, and the game does not try to force you into a linear path. For the past couple of years, we have had the island mostly built in a gameplay sense, and we were trying it out, moving things around, developing location concepts, tweaking puzzles. At this point, most of that stuff is figured out, so we are now going through all the areas of the island and detailing them.

What we learned in this process is that the island is in fact very big, for a place where you carefully visit every location during gameplay! Correspondingly, for a small independent team like ours, detailing this huge space is a lot of work!

Just the other week, we played through the game from start to finish, to get a fresh perspective and to see everything that is here (because when you are working on a small piece of a game for a long time, it becomes very easy to get tunnel vision and to see only that small piece). Originally I had meant to design an 8-hour game, but The Witness is more like 25-40 hours depending on how much you play (some of the game is optional!)

I suspect this is the biggest and most-intricate world ever built for a puzzle game (someone get a consultant from the Guinness Book to verify that!)

On the tech side, we are working on making The Witness run with a smooth and solid frame rate, making the graphics look as nice as possible, and ensuring that the streaming system loads things quickly. We wrote our own engine for this game, so on the one hand, it means we get to do a lot of work; but on the other hand, it means we have precise control and can tweak it carefully until it is the highest-quality experience we can deliver.

We look forward to giving you an excellent game!

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/10/16/the-witness-on-ps4-tiny-details-in-a-very-big-world/

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I search YouTube and this is the best Witness video I could find:

Oculus? PS VR? 3D?

What could it mean??

New video walkthrough video

Note: this was recorded last November so when he says it's out next year, he means 2014.

Jonathan Blow was also on the latest episode of Tone Control, that podcast with Steve Gaynor (Gone Home). Quite interesting to hear about some of the stuff he did before Braid.

This was, and still is, my most anticipated PS4 game. Can't wait to get lost inside...whatever secret that island holds!

The Witness - from the creator of Braid

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