That being said, more frequent updates (not now, but when the game is 1 – 3 months to release) would really help bring up the hype!

No, I’m both

This is what it’s all about Milan regardless of the medium. I love running into your people who love something so much that they became almost obsessed with it. That kind of passion is infectious. I’m interested in reading your paper as well. I’m the same way as you about my favorite films Leon the Professional, Memento Mori, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, and Audition. I wrote an essay, among others, about Mulholland Drive and how it makes complete sense (because I saw so many crazy inaccurate interpretations out there that didn’t use the film to prove itself). I also wrote an essay about how terrible a movie Inception really is.

In other words, seeing you get excited about Braid is what makes game developers in the first place. Are you interested in making a game yourself by any chance?

ditto – would love to read it!

Are you able to link to the paper in question? I would love to read it, as I’m sure many others here would too.

Just watched the whole review, too, and I agree with absolutely everything – it sums up all the feelings I’ve been having regarding the game (without even touching on the ending that manages to destroy all remaining scraps of social criticism in one easy, breezy, 10-minute walk).

… But enough about Bioshock Infinite. And for the lack of a better place (and since I’m already commenting on a post)…

I am a great fan of Braid. In fact, it’s safe to say that I love Braid as much as Tim loves the Princess – I could talk for hours about the meta-theme of obsession and how this… Work of art, dare I say it, was the only one that managed to TURN ME INTO a character, instead of just (and this is still quite something!) making me empathize with him/her/it. Last year, I wrote a 20-page paper on how Braid retells the myth of Prometheus for one of my college courses, and this year, I am working with a teaching assistant on writing an analysis of the game from the perspective of cognitive semantics (namely, conceptual and multimodal metaphors). I’m not trying to sound pretentious or anything – I’m just stating this as a testament of my love for the game. Having said that – if the things Jonathan has said and shown so far are any indication, I’ll soon be writing papers and losing sleep on The Witness, as well. Thank you for having the courage (and I believe this is the right adjective) to show the world that video games need not emulate other media in order to be meaningful and emotional, and that what is intrinsically their greatest strength – their interactivity – is all they really need to rely on in order to tell a story, provide an experience – in short, to communicate.

Looking forward to this one. Godspeed to the whole team.

I was thinking he was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote :)

wow! nice observation!

Are you sure you’re not this guy?

Unbelivable. The windmill was always there, from the earliest concept arts. I didn’t notice its dissapearence.
It seems that either it has became too spoilery ( it for sure is an important element of the game), or just they have removed it temporaly, to make it look really good.

I watched the whole review. Good stuff. Ever since Portal and Braid I’ve almost lost my interest in gaming entirely. I’d rather look for a really meaningful movie instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2cSKBFBDQ

You are not alone.

You took the words outta my mouth.

I believe Jon has said before that water is a barrier in the game. So no swimming I believe.

I wouldn’t put it past Jonathan (though I doubt he’d do it as a reference unless it served a purpose). There’s no way I’m the only one suspicious of that cloud right next to the mountain.

As a programmer, I would love post about how these are rendered ;-)

Heh, one more windmill “fan” here. I have one in my game as well :D

Can’t wait to see it in The Witness.

Man, getting up on the cloud would be a cool end-game Braid ref.

I wondered this too! It’s supposed to be a big deal for the game! The icon of the .exe of the games is the windmill itself, It must be a very important part of the game but maybe it’s a secret so they took it out for now… Or idk maybe it didn’t work out. I love windmills. When I grow up I wanna live inside a wind mill.

Oh… I just remembered that might be a ship according to the sections you posted way back.

At this point do you feel you are at a “polishing” phase, or are there still a number of major things to be worked out?