Comments on: Island Snapshot

By: Hemlock Drew

Hemlock Drew — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:52:43 +0000

In reply to dan. ditto ;)

By: Andrew Coggeshall

Andrew Coggeshall — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:36:24 +0000

I was just curious if you guys were using any sort of virtual texturing or MegaTextures. I know you have referred to having to stream textures and memory being an issue so I was wondering if this was ever considered as a technique. I am just learning about it so I would be curious to hear from someone more experienced why that technique would be used or not. I know yo have a lot of texture memory being used with lightmaps and such.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 19:44:50 +0000

I check back to this site every single day, and I have been since I first heard about this game over a year ago. Never enough updates.

By: Pritchard

Pritchard — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:02:26 +0000

In reply to Chris.

“After seeing famed indie developer Jonathan Blow play his new game The Witness for well over a half an hour, it’s hard to know exactly what to make of it.”

30.992 minutes, to be exact.

By: Sam Eddy

Sam Eddy — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:36:40 +0000

I would love a high-rez (1920 x 1080) version to use as a wallpaper :)

By: justin

justin — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:02:04 +0000

New interview with Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-06-26-witness-the-witness

By: Hemlock Drew

Hemlock Drew — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 01:20:53 +0000

In reply to justin.

Whoops, I thought it was a launch title and that’s why I pre-ordered a PS4.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/the-witness-confirmed-as-a-ps4-launch-title-6404212

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:24:17 +0000

I actually find Colin Moriarty’s write-up of his experience very interesting, and though he sounds a little ‘down’ on his experience, I find the points he brings up intriguing; not negative: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/06/14/e3-2013-ps4s-the-witness-is-abstract-non-linear-strange

By: Spence

Spence — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:35:33 +0000

What do you mean by footstep count? The number of different footfall sounds there are?

By: metaplinius

metaplinius — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:42:13 +0000

In reply to Nathan. I don't think that You have to worry about the game not lasting long enough. Although Jonathan said (as far as I remember) something about 20 hours of gameplay, that probably does not include fully understanding the story of the game. I can even imagine that the game could played multiple times, not for the puzzles, but for discovering some other aspects of the story and the island.

By: Micah

Micah — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:22:28 +0000

When you say the current footstep count is 1756, you must be referring to the amount of different audio noises? I’ve just realized why that’s so important to you. Seeing how there’s going to be almost no music, it’ll be the primary thing we hear when we aren’t solving puzzles.

Thanks for all the interview links. It’s exciting to see all this hype generating!

By: Lestibournes

Lestibournes — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:37:24 +0000

So what’s the latest estimate on the release date?

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:05:30 +0000

The Oculus question hasn’t been in the comments for some time, so…
Oculus?

This is still the most perfect game for it.

But then again it might even be SO perfect for it, that the only thing it needs is the right vorpX profile, and not even official support.

By: justin

justin — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:26:01 +0000

In reply to Nathan.

If you approach anything that way, it’s just bound to be ruined. Just enjoy it, if you wanna take your time or take breaks in between or just rushed trough it. Just do whatever feels best for you. I play my games all the same, I don’t even thing about that. I hadn’t even thought about that until you said it.

Don’t think about that and try to explore and enjoy the game. I would never suggest approaching anything in life like that, it’s just ill.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:34:17 +0000

I used to get giddy as a child when I would hear about Riven and then Exile coming out. The Witness is the first game since then that has me feeling young like that. I am so excited for this game, but I’m also so worried that when I finally play this game, I’ll ruin what could be a prolonged experience by blasting through it. I want to get it and then just play it forever, but I doubt that’s the best way to play it…

Does anyone have any techniques for making a good thing last? Else, I demand Mr. Blow be tied down and forced churn out games and ideas for games forever. Creative process be damned.

By: justin

justin — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:06:40 +0000

In reply to Paul Pantea.

To my knowledge all he said was Early next year, so I would guess Q1 or Q2 2014, May 2014 at the latest?

I really don’t care anymore, I’ve been waiting so for 4 years, a couple months more don’t bother me at all, plus I want to get to know the PS4 and for Sony to get their network and online store set up and all ready for The Witness. So it’s a good thing it won’t be out by launch because it’s also a lot of competition?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:50:51 +0000

In reply to Jonathan Blow. Ok. I heard the current team was around a dozen, so I'm assuming the rest of those people are contractors? The scale of the island is surprising for that small of a team.

By: Paul Pantea

Paul Pantea — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:13:37 +0000

The guys at Gamespot said that you’re aiming for march/april of 2014. Is that true?
Can’t wait to play the game :)

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:51:13 +0000

In reply to Stuart. 3-point-something programmers (I kind of count as a programmer, kind of don't, since I spend a lot of time doing design / company running stuff / etc). 5 people doing modeling/texturing now (with occasional design tasks sometimes).

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:50:17 +0000

I’m curious to know, how many of the team are programmers and how many artists?