Wouldn’t work. Jonathan Blow does everything in quaternions.

Yeah, I think he was joking… ;)

The Witness is a very different game from Braid, in terms of what you do from minute to minute; but at the same time you can see how it is an evolution of Braid philosophically. It is hard to say more than that without starting to spoil things.

We will try to do as much as we can to provide flexibility, given the amount of development power we have.

However, you have the wrong notion about Braid. The PC version was not a console port. I developed Braid on the PC, and the xbox version was the port. But it tries to run at a fixed resolution because that is the resolution we processed the graphics for. By increasing the resolution all you would get would be blurrier bitmaps!

How much work are you putting into optimizing the game for different hardware(not platform)? Are you aiming for a fixed resolution and refresh rate since its a multi-platform game? Or are we going to be able to “crank up” the graphics if we have a better system? (Not in the sense of photorealism like it was mentioned but having more particals, aa, view distance, better physics etc.)

As a PC gamer, I would really like some flexibility. For a 2D game like Braid it was OK to have a console port. But for The Witness it wouldn’t cut it. Sorry If this was mentioned before, couldn’t go through all the other posts.

Thanks, Sky.

It didn’t even occur to me that you would ever come up against such a problem. Is that common, for game developers to patent their code?

How would you know when you’ve violated a patent? and how would they know you have once your game is released?

That is really sad that the world has come to this.

Thanks, but I do not think we can use this technique; someone probably has a patent on it…

if (isStuckInLandscape()) location.y += 100;

We do some simplified stuff for collision detection. We do still seemingly have problems with the player getting stuck sometimes, but there are mostly-straightforward ways around that, that we plan to implement in the future.

We are not at all aiming for a realistic visual style.

That puzzle count should be correctly ignoring duplicated/temporary puzzles. So the 528 number is pretty close to accurate.

It will be done when it’s done! But we are getting closer to done all the time.

How much of what can we see on this screenshot is a plqceholder graphic, and how much the target one?
Does this puzzle count include the cloned puzzles you mendioned in the lat entry?

and most important:
when it will be done? :D

So far the game looks more artistic than realistic to me

Check this screenshot out for example:
https://the-witness.net/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/shot_2012.07.23__time_15_21_n04.png

And I do love this direction ^_____^

Do you have a specific or rough number of puzzles in mind? 528 looks like a lot, and unless most of them are fairly trivial then you must spend a good amount of time thinking them up.