Unlikely. We’ll see.

Speaking of control, is there a change we’ll see a purely point-and-click option for PC/Mac?

Perhaps develop something that is more universal than the Xbox 360 controller’s default scheme…most PC controllers, including the Xbox controller itself, tend to be pretty similar (although I confess to not knowing much if at all about this subject.) A quick Google Image search (though this may not be the most valuable metric to work with) reveals that a lot of modern PC controllers are pretty much based around either the PS3 or 360 controllers, which themselves are pretty similar in layout. For example, while I don’t know how The Witness handles communicating button information to the player, most controllers have four face buttons on the right side of the controller (the A, B, X, and Y of the Xbox controller) in a standard or at least very similar layout, of the course the two analog sticks for movement, at least two shoulder buttons per side (if not more), a directional pad, and some sort of start/pause and back/select buttons. But then again, this may be useless information to you, as I don’t know anything about programming gamepad support in C++!

The question is how you visually prompt different buttons and stuff. This is why I only supported the 360 controller for Braid, because you can’t tell people visually what button to push when you don’t know what that button looks like or where it is relative to other buttons.

Anyway, I think you’re reasonably safe as long as you don’t go out of your way to make X360CE not work or something.

Controller support is already there… for the 360 gamepad.
We’ll see about supporting other controllers (it is kind of a mess on the PC).

We do love you, really!

I’m curious if the river will have realtime reflection. I remember you mentioned that turning the lake into a bay removed the need to render the scene another time and if a river is an irregular surface it seems like rendering the reflection would be really difficult. I heard there are now realtime reflections with DirectX, are you planning to try anything like this?

I guess with a lot of refraction you could even just use a cube map reflection and it could still look nice.

Guys .. OF COURSE there are big visual artifacts. The game is not done yet.

It is just annoying when people point this stuff out.

Yeah, I see some artifacts on the shed near the water (maybe because the screenshot is taken from so far away?), and a seam in the water.

Overall looks great though. I really like the way the trees look.

Funny enough, that windmill has been in the pics for ages (over two years).
https://the-witness.net/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/island.jpg

There’s probably something central about it to the gameplay, since it was even in the early concept art.
https://the-witness.net/news/2010/02/concept-art/