Good luck; I can’t wait.

-davekov

(In reply to ‘justin’.)

Firstly, the question wasn’t even directed at you. Secondly, you have COMPLETELY misunderstood and manipulated the question in the first place, and so your response is completely invalid. My question was in regards to the possibility of Jonathan giving a speech about the value of deeper, more thought-provoking games to children, much like the way he does talks for adults; in no way was I insinuating that neither Braid nor The Witness would ever be suitable for children for whatever reason. Heck, my six year-old niece has played (and pretty much completed) Braid, and she thought it was awesome. Granted, she didn’t quite ‘get’ the deeper meaning of the game, but she still fully understood the base regardless, and she doesn’t desire Disney shovelware.

And, judging by your overzealous use of swear-words, you’re clearly annoyed about something in the first place, and taking it out on someone asking a perfectly valid question really isn’t a good idea. Channel that anger into how passionate you are about the games, however, and that would be just awesome!

Gary

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It is my very strong opinion that in the long run you want to have full control over all your code, which something like Unity does not give you.

However, if you have just started, you are very far from the long run so it is maybe not so important. What you want to do first is get good at making games, so use whatever method seems helpful to do that.

I’m like, very new to video game development (started learning C++ two months ago, started learning Unity like two weeks ago), and Unity is extremely inviting for new game developers like myself. But what I’m wondering is that, in the long run is it a good idea to keep going with Unity or go back to the basics of programming and try to build up from there?

I know this is probably not the best place to ask, but you seem to be very active in the comments on this site and I’d really like to get your input. I played Braid a LOT and found it very inspiring, and I’m really looking forward to The Witness.

Thanks for your time,
Taylor

I think it’s a game engine.

We average around 300-500 viewers depending on the night. I’ve streamed Braid before and it was very well received by our viewers. If it gives us any more credibility, we recently did an interview with Edmund McMillen, which was very enjoyable. As a very big fan of Braid and someone who is slated to stream The Witness when it comes out, it would be fantastic to get an interview with you.

Why can’t children play Braid or The Witness?
Say that The Witness ends up having bad words in some of the logs or videos like Braid…
They are very much games for everyone. Children/next gen gamers ??? What ever/my ass why can’t kids play this and other games? They don’t go by age!
Unless you want some Disney shite or just plain asinine, inane and infantile shite…
And what would be the point of Jonathan wasting time when he could make more
interesting shit?

Because that’s what it sounds like. It sounds like you want infantile stuff but kids can learn from alot of broader from Braid and TW

…also, yes! I just answer a question that was not 4 me! sue me :P

Hey hey, Jonathan! Glad to see that all is going awesomely with The Witness, and I really cannot wait to finally get my teeth into it :D.

I have a question: Jon, have you ever considered doing a lecture/assembly about the value of more interesting, thought-provoking games for an audience of children at all? Seeing as they are essentially the ‘next generation’ of gamers, it would be very interesting to see exactly what is on their minds amidst their disillusionment that Call of Duty and FIFA are the epitome of video games, and the fact that you’re quite possibly the only person that would ever give them the opportunity to show them what is outside the box (because, let’s face it, the aforementioned titles are never going to do that for them) would be really valuable to them, I reckon.

Is this something that you have ever considered?

Thanks!

Gary

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These progress shots are mostly simplified geometry. In actual gameplay the camera would never pull out this far.

Was curious, do the island progress shots incorporate LOD simplification, or do they show the full geometry?

Either you forgot to mention Braid in that post or haven’t played it. If the latter you really, really should.

It is a possibility.

I am glad things are going well!

Keep up the great work!
-Kyle

I’ve always known generally what the endgame was going to be, and how it would fit into the game as a whole. The specific issues solved here were more about how to design the exact puzzles involved, how to fit them into the world in a way that does not seem forced, etc.

Can’t wait to see where this game can bring us…

The reason you don’t see non-point-lights often in games is because it is a lot harder to do that when it comes to rendering math, and good luck trying to do shadows with that.

It’s something you will start to see more as time goes on.

Since the direct lighting is dynamic maybe this would be too slow. I guess point and spot lights would be enough but these other types of distributions look really cool. Anyway, maybe seeing the rendering will answer this, thanks.