Well, I don’t really know either, but you could say that there is an overlap with building a city not based on a blueprint or traditional model of a city, but the universe. Or something along those lines.

Did you get that? Did you understand it? If you did, please explain! IDK WTF that means… I don’t get it, why?

Ah, thanks.

Finally! The moral behind Braid is revealed.

Invisible Cities is an excellent book. “Thekla” seems like an odd choice for nomenclature, however – I took it as much more cautionary than inspirational.

“Those who arrive at Thekla can see little of the city, beyond the plank fences, the sackcloth screens, the scaffoldings, the metal armatures, the wooden catwalks hanging from ropes or supported by sawhorses, the ladders, the trestles. If you ask ‘Why is Thekla’s construction taking such a long time?’ the inhabitants continue hoisting sacks, lowering leaded strings, moving long brushes up and down, as they answer ‘So that it’s destruction cannot begin.’ And if asked whether they fear that, once the scaffoldings are removed, the city may begin to crumble and fall to pieces, they add hastily, in a whisper, ‘Not only the city.’

If, dissatisfied with the answers, someone puts his eye to a crack in a fence, he sees cranes pulling up other cranes, scaffoldings that embrace other scaffoldings, beams that prop up other beams. ‘What meaning does your construction have?’ he asks. ‘What is the aim of a city under construction unless it is a city? Where is the plan you are following, the blueprint?’

‘We will show it to you as soon as the working day is over; we cannot interrupt our work now,’ they answer.

Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. ‘There is the blueprint,’ they say.”

I’m sad that Subversion was cancelled. Guys obviously just kept putting in more and more stuff without a solid idea of base gameplay. They said thay had more fun building the game than anyone would have playing it. However, I believe you, Jonathan, that you have more or less clear vision how to shape things up and the same thing won’t happen to The Witness :)

Good luck to you and your whole team!

http://www.diygamer.com/2011/10/trip-miegakures-4th-dimension-marc-ten-bosch-interview/

I thought he was dead or something! don’t be like Marc Ten Bosch or Chris Hecker or Jonathan Mak. Does guys don’t report progress for months! and then that leads to people losing interest and thinking you died or that the team split or the game got cancel.

Is good to just say hi and post at least one image per month. I was asking about the architects a while back when you first mention them. I don’t know if I would like to find out what they are working on or look at “before and afters” of structures, but i would like to know about the architects.

Are they *real* architecs or like students? How many are they? Are they expensive? do they draw on paper or do something on 3D like Sketch-Up? Where do they come from, a Company a school? Why are they needed.

Also, show the architects this:

http://vimeo.com/7809605

tell them that this is how the game will end up looking like, If they know about vidya gaems which I doubt they will even play. Also happy halloween! Boo!