I’m warning anyone who has even considered playing this game, DO NOT PLAY IT, this is not a game, this is like those nail puzzles or string puzzles where you have to take apart a couple nails or screws or move some bead across a tangle of strings to another side, there is no story, no action, no suspense, no mystery, just 300 stupid puzzles on a deserted island. Wow what concept, I wonder what cement head thought this would be fun to play (more like sit there for countless hours running a line through a maze.)

By far the worst game, if you can call it that!! I have ever played in my life. I play for about 2-3 hours just trying to figure out a puzzle, then I get fed up and go back to the 01, 02, 03, 04 format but by the time I get to 50, I’m tired, confused and not sure if I already tried that specific combination, so I quit and walk away from that area, I have done that in about 20 places and it’s all the same.

Obtuse, irrational, inconclusive, non rewarding, trial and error puzzles, without any hints to what you should be doing or how to tackle the puzzle.

SAVE YOURSELF THE AGRIVATION AND DON’T EVER CONSIDER PLAYING THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE, THE WITNESS, MORE LIKE THE LOSER!!!!

Acturally, I’m a architect. Just get M.arch2 degree in SCI-ARC. But I learn some java and python for design buildings. Like generate architecture from site image…. I fell i really like to making something people can interact with weather it real built-able or just illusion. When i play your games the witness. I really fell something hit me and I cant stop thinking. I dont know how hard to get into game design instead of architecture. My professor ask me about do I really like making games or just like play a games. I dont have an answer……. Now i’m working in a pretty good firm (aedas). well pay and not so busy. But every time i play the game i feel so unbelievable I cant stop thinking should i try it…. There are so many program language I really dont know how to start…. May I ask you for some advise. What will i need to become a real game designer? Sorry write so long and thx for your patient…..

I teach special education in the Bronx and use games to foster relaxation and focus, and to supplement meditation. I’m very much on the same page as Jonathan Blow in many regards about gaming and hope that you might help me get in contact with him.

Thanks,

Lee

Perhaps they get the people they searching for with that phrasing. You know, all the ones paying too much significance to their achivements won’t bother.
And then we got people like me for instance. I know I would be a great game programmer at some point. Just need to indulge a little bit more in the crafts. I wouldn’t apply either. Because I don’t wanna waste anyones time.
Btw, if someone from the staff are reading this. When will the witness hit IOS?

I am a Belgian composer, sound designer and sound engineer.

I have composed for a lot of people, from the famous Joueur du Grenier to short movies here and there.

I know there is no job offer for a sound guy on the website, but I wanted to write to you anyway, to offer you my services.

Here is my website : http://www,yannickcremer.com

Also, I am part of a music duo with my American partner : http://www.steffipaxon.com

Thank you for your consideration and, who knows!

Yannick from Belgium

Is the above comment still valid? I don’t expect it, as it is very old now. I am asking mainly out of interest (and, of course, a tiny bit of hope). However, I don’t want to annoy anyone or act impolitely, so if this does, please, just don’t bother.
Greetings,
Antonius [I am not using my full name here, because I don’t want it to get indexed by Google]

I am a musician/sound designer who is also interested in collaborating with a video game production team. Any advice on how to find interested parties?

Sebastian, thanks for the honest and helpful reply!
Jacob, have you considered helping a starting team (ie: some team making small Android/iOS games) put nice music in their games? It would definitely be a nice way to start at this and learn a lot along the way :)
Good luck and have fun!

No, no – thank you for the advice. I agree with what you’ve said, but it’s hard for me to command an enormous sum for my work since I’m still a kid and have never been hired to make game music before, and it would be strange to me to ask for money when I’m doing something I love more than anything else. It’s interesting what you mentioned about standing out; I think the soundtrack to VVVVVV came about in a similar way, with the composer bragging about his braggable skills and charging a ton for them. For now, I’ll excitedly await The Witness and when it comes out, I’ll likely write my own “fanfiction-score” (whatever it would be called). Hopefully, the in-game music will be better than what I can come up with :)
In any case, thank you (to the whole team) for all your hard work; I can’t wait.

I don’t mean this as a criticism of you specifically, Jacob, but I’ve noticed that your particular field of expertise is very fast becoming flooded. It might not be long before you have no choice but to offer it for free because there’s just too many alternative artists hanging around.

I feel so bad, because I read a number of indie game development blogs and I have seen your post repeated time and time again by somebody wanting to do music.

I almost wonder if you’d stand out more saying your music is insanely expensive but worth it, rather than saying it’s free, just like thousands of other musicians wanting to break into videogames.

Sorry for the unwarranted advice, Jacob… I just truly feel for you, because I can tell you are serious and passionate about what you’re doing.

P.S.
I expect skepticism in response to this post, but if the team ever thinks it may need some music and would be willing to look into outside sources, I would immensely appreciate some notification and even perhaps a musical task (?) that the team is looking to accomplish that I could attempt to compose for. In any case, keep up the good work; I know I am not the only one who knows this will be an incredible game. :)

In fact, it’s even more funny now that you made the encapsulation seem so obvious. If you need an explanation, think of all the people out there who think they’re “good at making games” and about how variable their skill sets will be.

If you don’t see a guy developing choppily animated flash games for his four-year-old nephew, bragging about his l33t h4xorz skills to all his friends, you’re missing out.

Wishing you good luck with the search!
(Although, I have a hunch your network is abundantly capable of filling the positions.)

– Pritchard

PS:

Currently an SET student (VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, Java, JavaScript and PHP). Wish I had a (formal) CS background! (ASM, C, C++, Python, Scheme, design patterns and programming models, discrete mathematics and graphs, algorithms, etc.) Of course, I’d be better off making games :)

also. Thekla, Inc is = Number-None. or is that some other thing you have?

good luck. get the best people!