STOP HYPING ME Dx

I know right. I´m going crazy here. Wake up USA. Go go. :-P

that it is, and I won’t be able to stop checking this site…

Will any of the content in this game be something you can miss “forever” if you do one thing before another (in the vain of the puzzle piece golden star in Braid), thus requiring a restart to see everything?

It’s for tomorow! San francisco time I guess. Hope you’ll get a nice press coverage.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/09/sonys-project-morpheus-is-now-playstation-vr/

*squeeking like a boyband groupie*

Ho ho… If nothing comes out t’ill next Tuesday i’ll be following TGS sony’s conference live with great expectations :-)

Full digital release. No Retail Version for the Witness.

That is for a physical release. I’ve forgotten whether it will be digital only or not.

ESRB and PEGI is very different than Sony or Microsoft certification so it could be a while out. It’s definitely getting close though. It takes about six weeks to release from console certification and that could be months out.

https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/642059960918999040

Can you link a tweet or source?

saw that too, am very excited

I had no idea the game was actually THAT close to being finished!

Yeah, how many ways can you customize a shadow? LOL

This is not Little Inferno. The Witness is no satire game.

#MetalGearSolid5

As you’re finishing The Witness I’m sure you are turning your thoughts toward your next game, PAINTER 2. (Seriously though, that game made me laugh so hard. There’s potential there…!)

I tell myself that I won’t be watching the trailer, but I know myself too well to believe me.

But I’d be really interested to know the release date. Hopefully it won’t be 6 months away. That was pretty hard to stomach in the case of MGSV. Oh well, great things usually take time, of course.

Ultimately, the team would like to have the Witness released on as many platforms as possible. Currently, there is an agreement with Sony that the PS4 will have the exclusive console rights to the Witness for a set period of time. See this post for more info – https://the-witness.net/news/2013/02/a-clarification-about-our-ps4-exclusivity/

Even after the PS4 and PC launch, I believe the iOS port will take priority over an XBox port (the iPad is a natural fit for a game like the Witness). So the answer to your questions is “Possibly yes, but not for some time.”

Thank you all for your meticulous and arguably insane attention to detail that you have crafted into this.

That’s exactly what I said… There is a reason for everything ;)

P.S. Yes oddkins I know most of what I know from following this blog and jon’s social media for the past few years now… Part of my job.

Part of my job also let me play the witness at E3 a few years back… But my lips are sealed about what I saw when I got to play it personally.

I had a very open and plesent conversation with Jon, he was very candid about the game taking a lot longer than he thought and I saw a bit of worry in him. I told him that he should Take as long as he needs because this game has the potential to unseat portal as #1 on many “top 10 original puzzle games of all time” lists, if he keeps it up.

I wonder if he remembers me. XD

Everything that Dangerzone said is known actually. Trough interviews or through the blog. Nothing suprising on this end.

I just would have liked it more if he had left him more in the dark. Exploration is so important in this game. A simple: “Its there for a reason” would have been enough.

Question… how do you know all of this really specific stuff? Number of biomes, laser boxes, numbers needed minimally to proceed to the mountain.

Did you perhaps test the game or something?

This is Jonathan Blow we’re talking about, not Peter Molyneux….. ;-)

I was just thinking if Jon again hides something so hard in his game, only the internet is able to figure it out…

Lets say part of the mystery. You can observe there purpose in the first trailer thou.

well I could spoil you if you really wanna know…

That’s a laser cube, and those are your main objectives in The witness!

If you look back through all the screen shots made through the years and you will see a lot more of them, plain as day. They are your main “go here” beacon for an area.

There is one in each of the 11 biomes in the game. By the end of each of the 11 areas, there will be a laser connecting from the emitter box to the mountaintop.

Usually you gotta solve quite a few puzzles to reach one of these boxes, and usually they will activate for completing every puzzle in an area. Other times you need to solve more puzzles to access a redirector to bounce a laser to the mountain top.

Anyways, Connect 7 of them and you unlock the actual mountain for exploration (which is the endgame), but you also get a special surprise if you do all 11 before attempting the mountain top. Like the hidden stars in braid got you a longer ending.

The witness itself has a ultimately simple underlying progression concept, it’s the puzzles themselves and the history of the island that are meant to be brain benders.

I can only imagine how tedious it is to be a game tester. 1. Step slightly right and go forward. 2. Make a note 3. Repeat 12,257 times. it might even be worse to be on the receiving end of the problem list. How many times must the developer think, “Didn’t we just fix that problem???

We the gamers are in awe of your dedication to get it right. As they say in New Orleans, “Go ahead on!”

Ah okay sorry for making assumptions. Great to hear you’re aiming for 60! Good luck with the launch when it comes.

No, the 30Hz was just an artifact of the way we took these temporary videos. The frame rate of the game is unlocked on the PC, and on the PS4 we are aiming for a solid 60 everywhere at all times. It’s possible we might miss that in some more difficult conditions, we’ll see, but even if there are slight drops in some areas, it won’t be that kind of annoying varying-framerate experience you are talking about.

In general I am not a fan of locking games to 30Hz.

I simply adore the first screenshot. Just thinking about solving all these puzzles in such an enviroment makes me feel so happy.

Are you planning to attach the releasedate to the trailer?

Damn Jon I´m so excited. Why are you doing this to me. All my friends and family will suffer again because I will start to gush over the game once more… :-D

Now you just gotta make a new trailer every week till launch, spoil the ending in one of those trailers, make some insane promises, make a flashier website (with music and html 5 animations!), cover Twitter and Facebook with ads, spend 60 million on live action ads that have only 10 seconds of real gameplay in a 60 second ad, file copyright claims on every video on YouTube containing the words “The” or “witness”, offer 6 different preorder incentives, write some ad-bots, do some twitch reveals with a live captive studio audience, hold some contests, launch a poorly moderated forum, Give away ps4s and ponies, delay the game for 6 months, make an advertising deal with Doritos, Mountain Dew, and Red Bull, before finally announcing the dlc season pass 2 months before launch.

Yes, I’m that jaded…