well anyways. *you should do that every single time you give a talk* seriously just record all your things and post them online. these things are too important they have to be shared!

Seriously though, the guy I talked to seemed pleasant. He actually said he was going to upload it after his exams, but then he just seemed to forget and the file fell through the cracs.

I’ll try putting these together sometime over the next few days…

Jon, any chance you could post some notes as an article? I for one would be extremely interested.

…also, I think that Physx is kind of cool. but yeah

Isn’t that just… a gimmick?
Like… PhysX?

http://www.oxm.co.uk/29906/news/e3-2011-jonathan-blows-cancelled-kinect-game/

http://n4g.com/news/781386/oxm-uk-jonathan-blows-cancelled-kinect-game/com

Also, Blow mentioned that there will be no music in the game not that long ago.

demo starts at 5:59 (five hours with 59 minutes) skip to the demo. it is cool

they have not released a lot of information like the specs and all that but it will get games like Assassin’s Greed, Arkham Asylum, Battlefield, Ninja Gaiden and Metro. supposedly they will not be special ports for the system but the real same game that will go to 360, PS3 and PC.

if you could or had the chance would you put your games on other systems. what is your philosophy on this?

I really object to the notion that photographers “do a better job… than consoles”, as over-saturation and incorrect colours seems to be the popular way of doing HDR photography. I’m in complete agreement Dan on the “Teal & Orange” issue though! *waggles finger accusingly at Portal, Mass Effect, etc. ad infinitum*

As Jon has previously stated, HDR is widespread in gaming – and I would assume that from a production perspective is more straightforward (or at least controllable) than the messing around with multiple exposures that goes on in creating HDR images with traditional photography. Of course implementing it effectively becomes a whole big issue, for e.g. how the Xbox360 (mis)handles the sRGB colour space/gamma curve. See: http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2008/GDC2008_PostProcessingInTheOrangeBox.pdf

Ultimately what we all end up with though is *simulated* HDR on our displays, it is inaccurate to describe different implementations as being “inverses” of each other. Also, games and videos have the advantage of temporal resolution, comparing this HDR to those in static images is like comparing long-exposure photography to actual motion, the two are similar in concept but end up completely different.

John Hable (formerly of Naughty Dog) undoubtedly explains things better than I do:
http://www.slideshare.net/ozlael/hable-john-uncharted2-hdr-lighting
And his blog: http://filmicgames.com/
Since reading i’ve now become obsessed with gamma.

On topic: i’d love to see a post on the sound/music development for The Witness. Perhaps it’s too early in the production to get into this? And I suppose if it’s licensed music à la Braid there might not be much to write about. Thanks anyway to everyone working on this game! More than anything else (gaming or otherwise), i’m looking forward to The Witness and Journey. *hint* please have support for PC or PS3!

if you check the company’s website, they mention the narrator voiceover is actually a friend of theirs.

In photography it’s a method to show detail not normally visible for a single exposure that get lost in shadow or get blown out in the light.

In videogames it’s a method to simulate a *lack* of dynamic range, obscuring details outside that range and sliding the range up and down as lighting conditions change, this effectively introduces what the photographic method is trying to eliminate. It’s a desirable feature because it allows for less constrained lighting solutions (things can be brighter than a pure white pixel) and better approximates how real vision works potentially helping player immersion.

Can I ask, does XBLA have the level of censorship that iOS does? “If you want to criticize religion, write a book” kind of thing?

Still delightedly reading every post. It’s nice to see that you (plural) have a real vision of what the game should be like, and that you’re confident you’ll get there in the end. I sometimes worry too much about making sure that all the details are actually implementable before I start working on the big picture.

When you see an “HDR photograph” quite often the photographer has just done a really weird tone mapping function in order to make the picture look surreal / hyperreal, which, while needing the source data to be HDR in order to do this, is really a separate issue. Sober HDR images do not necessarily look like that.

In any case, I like the way the newer images reveal more detail and make the colors pop. Just please don’t fall into the teal & orange trap hollywood is in. :)

Too exited…,
Forgot link…

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/06/02/ngp-introducing-sound-shapes/

The game is called Sound Shapes. it looks kick-ass!
Also, you should check Hand Eye Society for more news about Jonathan Mak and Sound Shapes

I don’t think all the “random dumb stuff” is necessary; I think it’s random and dumb at this point. It may have made sense in 2004-2005 when they were designing the console but a LOT has changed in the past 6-7 years.

I don’t mind having a certification process but so much of the process involves killing yourself to work around poor design decisions and outright bugs introduced by the platform holder that they don’t want to fix. It is kind of insulting.

for those who don’t check TheWitness twitter: http://www.giantbomb.com/building-the-bastion-part-05/17-4178/

how do indi developers get such good voice actors though? how can they afford it? i wish the video would have covered even more.

the colors look beautiful, defensibly the shoot at the right looks cooler! since this is your second time dealing with all this hopefully it will be easier for you this time, you know what absurd things to expect. but still, good luck!

the game is looking phenomenal…. still no gameplay though!

Photographers tend to use the term “HDR” in a highly confused way and those links do not seem to be an exception…

http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/images/HDR.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%BCnchen,_St._Benedikt_vom_Pfarrhof_%28HDR_vs_NORMAL%29.jpg

http://www.dailyhdr.com/wp-content/uploads/Toning-vs-Real-HDR-captions.jpg

Seraph: Sexy.

Did you get your name where i think you got it from?

Color to shadow contrast is looking great in the right pictures.Do you plan on doing anything special with the clouds?

Would you consider the jump similar to before/after you brought on David Hellman for the visual style of Braid?