I made a bunch of those old images into wallpapers and posted them a while ago:
https://the-witness.net/news/2013/07/wallpapers/

A shame though that Sony (or whoever was in charge) decided to cover up that poster so much :(

It contains spoilers.

What everyone else said: Clouds on the bottom. Land on the top. Genius.

Now the $64 million question:

Is that the door in? Or is it the door out?

ya… the two are interlocking like a jigsaw puzzle piece :D

A Jonathan Blow book recommendation list would be awesome.

Top ten non-fiction?

I’m successfully hyped for this game btw :-)

I have a theory.

The puzzles require you to visualize the game world from above. And there’s a hidden entity (God?) that follows you from up there.

Or something.

I might have spoiled the game. But no one will know until they’ve played it. Me neither. :-)

Jonathan, I’m searching for a new book to read right now : what is the last book that moved you?

Ha ha good one. It’s just a poster and it doesn’t have to reflect gameplay, right? The game is definitely about witnessing different perspectives. Maybe we won’t see this one, but this angle well illustrates that idea. Why show a mathematical puzzle on a poster that may change your view of the world (which I doubt any single one could make the game seem intriguing as it’s totality is), when you can actually show a perspective that changes the way a person views the world? This leaves you with a vast feeling too rather than just a mathematical one. Obviously, I can’t claim to know precisely that’s what Jon is expressing with this, but I know what you mean man. Your logic makes total sense to me. I’m just throwing thoughts out there.

No, you removed the text! Anyway, thanks!

Because the game is not played like that. It’s a first person game, not a bird’s eye view game. So is not gameplay, is not something you do and not even how you will really see the island. But hey, maybe you can fly in the game who knows!

It’s just the poster in the blog post, but rotated to the left 90 degrees.

The whole world is one large interactive screen. The starting point’s the sky.

It works on many resolution levels. First saw it in my RSS reader which was rather small. Still could read the text and see there’s a land mass, beach, water, and sky (which later realize a reflection). When looking at the larger resolution, there’s more to discover in the image. As to say, look closer to discover more.

Wonderful work to whomever created the image!

It’s wonderful to see a project that I’ve been following since
it’s inception *actually* making it onto iPad!
Unlike all of those other “Big Promise/No Delivery” fizzles like
“Faraway”, “Wolves of the Atlantic”, & “Oceanhorn”.

I’ll hook a bloody generator up to my vaunted iPad 2 to get this puppy to run on it! lol
But — Jonathan’s good intentions aside — with “The Witness” being the showpiece
for a state-of-the-art gaming console, I, unfortunately, just don’t see that happening ….

I don’t know why we all put the fancy arteeest and graphic design expert treatment on your other runner up posters ha ha, even though they were really not that crucial to the game’s success, nor were you going to use them anyway. I guess we were just trying to be helpful.

Why not?

Here’s a new article on IGN about The Witness:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/14/e3-2013-ps4s-the-witness-is-abstract-non-linear-strange

Is meant to be like a maze… Also, this is the best one of all the other concepts runner-ups! I wonder why the top down view tough?

I assume it’s to match the circular starting points on the trace panels.

How did you get this picture? Are you an insider?

For now, new desktop background!
http://i.imgur.com/JtbvcdL.jpg

This might be a stupid question, but why is the bottom left corner of the image shaped like that?