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Short story: false 2 point touch on the trackpad makes Witness think your single (mouse) click is right click, hence when clicking on destination it will cancel it rather than confirm it.

Long story: on macbook pro 2016, due to the big trackpad, you will touch it. The os manages to figure out that those touches are palm touches and unintended.
Until it doesn’t. Sometimes it doesn’t. It thinks it is a 2 point touch resulting in your next *mouse* click being interpreted as a right click (cool, isn’t it?) this has adverse effect, pulls you out of 2D puzzle mode, or if you were completing a path – cancels it.
Even if you don’t touch the trackpad anymore, the game remains in a kind of wait for “right clicks” from now on. Hitting keys, like moving resets this.
Hitting will also move your hand out of trackpad.

Hope this helps someone.

PS: after being moderated, does anybody follows up activity here these days?

Just wanted to let you know that I have found an workaround (while trying to record the screen) Pressing esc which takes me tot the menu (and also saves?) and immediately returning allows me to complete the puzzle (reaching the destination will not reset your path anymore).
I think it also fixes the “not being able to click start”, but that bug appears rarely and “insisting” while being 2D into the puzzle or pull out pull 2D back on usually does the trick.
It is annoying though… but not a blocker anymore :)

Do you have a gamepad plugged in, that is flipped upside down somewhere so that the stick is being pushed? That happened to me a couple of times and really confused me…

Yeah, I hope they found what was causing the grass problem. Could the team please post the solution (or just the gist)? I’m curious. :)

I had similiar problems when coding some stuff for the blender 3d software.

I hope you got all the bugs!

Sounds logic, he spent all his money on this so he wants to be sure this game will sell well. I hope he announces before Tokio Game show, otherwise we have to wait until october -.-

Thanks so much for the good news Ryan.

But, he said something on Twitter about waiting a few weeks to start doing PR and announcements because of PAX and whatnot… He doesn’t want to get lost in that storm of other news and announcements.

Probably a good idea.

He also was looking into marketing… What works, how/where to promote, etc.

Just as an FYI for all you people who are anxious for updates, someone asked Jon about the Witness on twitter the other day, and he said:

“You will be hearing things starting in maybe a couple of weeks. We want to give PAX/etc time to clear before saying stuff.”

So it sounds like they’re ready to make an announcement soon. I think we’re in for some good news!

This game looks so awesome. I want to play it so bad.

It isn´t really healthy how much I want to play this game. I rally want to get my teeth into it but I can´t. This is slowly driving my crazy…

I never felt such strong desire for a game before.

The funny thing is. Because you guys take your time with The Witness I get the feeling the wait will be worth it. I´m getting crazy but also think that you should take all the time you need.

Long story short: you guys are awsome. Keep at it! Make it great but don´t burn yourself out.

;-D

Gosh. . . I think my friends think exactly the same thing. I can´t stop talking about it. :-P

The Witness looks pretty cool and hopefully it will be released soon so my brother Gabriel will stop talking about it.

Hold on, you win – you only missed it by 11 months!
http://www.gamespot.com/the-witness-1986/
I’m excited now to have a new game to try out on my C64! Talk about backwards compatible! :-D

oh, wait. that was the release date of “witness”, starring harrison ford. nevermind.

Braid is one of the most beautiful thing I witnessed within the gaming realm. It really spoke as going backwards in life would help in many situations, yet some things stay what they are, as souvenirs you can’t turn around. I loved the way the story was told between levels. It was like saying “You have to read some things between the lines” in real life. It was very smart. It was very well written. It was powerful. And the music, and the imagery, and this little mysterious overall thing that said “I’m more than a mere video game”. It felt very fresh and unheard of, all the while being a variation of sorts of past platformers. And when I managed to unlock some tricky puzzles, god I felt smart in a way a few things make my mind work in everyday’s life. Hope to witness another game from you as soon as it is possible for you to finish it. We’re waiting and Im sure something good is gonna come. Just another blow.

Take care you and your team.

Sylvain

Not with Sony onboard

You get to play the game on date of release!

January 5th 2016 is my guess! What do we get for closest??? XD

I really hope you are right DAS, or that the release date turns out to be before your date.

23rd October 2015

2016

Simultaneously with Morpheus on PS4, perhaps bundled, April 15, 2015 maybe…

Hopefully it’s not that late. Maybe it will be November 5th 2015

That makes sence. *gone prepairing good headphones

See who can guess the closest…

Keeping in mind that it needs to be delayed at least once, so My guess would be sometime in March next year. Call it March 8th 2016

No, it’s been covered that there is no music in the Witness, hence the many types of footstep noises, since it’s the main thing you’ll hear.

Nope, Jon said on Twitter that they wouldn’t be at PAX this year.

That was my prediction a couple months back. Still have my fingers crossed. Been looking for news related to it this morning, but nothing yet, so far as I can see.

I’m sorry for being so impatient. I just really want to play this game.

Gabriel,

JUST WAIT. It’ll be announced here, when they are ready.
If there is no news here, then there is NO NEWS.
Plenty of other stuff to get on with whilst you wait for the game.
The constant queries for a release date is the equivalent to a child asking “are we there yet?” and likely just as irritating.
Ok, rant over. Have a nice weekend!
:)

Well now I feel like a jerk for referring to his work as “looney”. I was mainly referring to this screenshot:

http://gameblaster64.xandorus.com/sites/default/files/obduction-screenshot_0.png

The art director on the project is actually one of our artists, Eric. He left us to go work on Obduction and we miss him…he’s great! He just has to build a ton of stuff in a very limited time.

I have visited their website, and some of the screenshots look pretty looney. The world looks stylistically disjointed and bizarre. But that doesn’t mean it won’t be a great game. I just like The Witness screenshots a lot more. :)

There’s no title screen? How do you save your game then?

There are your 12 trophies. Boom, done, easy.

P.S. A puzzle where you hide the solution in a trophy image, so that you need to get a trophy to solve another puzzle… That would be the best puzzle ever.

Ah I miss my old days of writing and designing…

Sony is crazy strict about trophies. It’s very sad.

I’m sure they will. We already know that there’s no title screen or music to the game, so I doubt there will be achievements if Jon doesn’t want them (or at very least a happy compromise. Sony seems way more respectful than Microsoft was.

i hope that Sony respects jon and his team enough to let them carry across their vision in whatever way him and his team see fit

Yikes. Yeah, that is pretty silly… so obviously — achievement get.

Yeah a certain number of troohies are required for a PS4 game, Sony is oddly strict about that.

IIRC, it was a minimum of 12 for a small downloadable game (or a max of 12 for a DLC)… And every retail title needs to have a platinum, which needs at least 35 or-so trophies to be eligible for one.

Also, while you can release a game on steam without achievements or cards or other BS… They will treat you like a red headed step-child and not give your game the spotlight that it gives others with have those social systems

Mr. Blow has made it clear in the past as to how he feels about them. I think of an article I’ve read twice now, http://killscreendaily.com/articles/unsurprisingly-jonathan-blow-hates-achievements-friends-lists-and-your-distracted-lifestyle/ .

Although Braid did have them on 36o and later, on Steam. So I would say it is a likely certainty, that the PS4 achievements/trophies will make their way to Steam as well. Not beceause Thekla wants ’em to, but rather to present a fully featured product that, for better or for worse, conforms to the trend of having them present.

Who knows though, the PS4 may REQUIRE trophies nowadays? Either way, this game will certainly stand on its own even not having them included. I find the only actual benefit to them to be had is that they sometimes encourage people to explore the further corners of the game that they might not have otherwise. Speaking for myself, I likely wouldn’t have sought out all of the stars in Braid or beat the game in under an hour and a half if it weren’t for the achievements being there. What I mean is, at best they supplement a game that you have already cleared and incentivise the returning to that game again at a later point in time via the notion of a ‘challenge’ to do something you wouldn’t have otherwise considered. They also give players whom really enjoyed the game, something to show for spending so much time with it.

Now Braid really kept these simple and meaningful and they hinted at things that let you know you might not have done everything that there was to do in that world — I hope too that this is as far as the Witness will go with them as well.

But I would totally expect them to be present, yes. Even though on the other side they are sort of an illusion.

It would be awesome to see some smiles at having reached that milestone!

LOL! I am flattered that someone thinks I have information! In this case I do!

Quote from Mr. Blow himself, just over 2 years ago:

Jonathan Blow
August 6, 2013 at 1:26 pm
“It’s not a simulation-kind of game so there is no weather or day/night. But when you play the game, it will make sense why this is so.”

There you have it! For a night-time scenario we need to enjoy Braid again ;)

I don’t have a direct source on this, but I remember a while back someone said that it was always daytime, and that there was a reason for that.

Well they did bring in architects to make sure the buildings were up to code. I’d be surprised if that level of commitment to realism didn’t necessitate a day/night cycle. That being said, it’s clear that there’s something strange about this island, so whose to say what aspects of it will be rooted in reality or not?

Actually, now that I think about it, and now that you have mentioned it, it would definitely be cool if there was a day/night cycle in The Witness.

Yes, we’ve been testing and tweaking that just this week as it happens – DS4, Xbox One, and Xbox 360 controllers all work very well (as do the generic pc controllers we’ve tried so far, but there’s so many – I’m sure anything there’s a driver for will be fine)

Yeah, someone already posted the correct url:
https://the-witness.net/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/shot_2014.12.09__time_15_13_n21.png

Oh, and for all we know, Casey’s the one doing it anyway. I remember he wrote a post on his own blog about the grass. I imagine he’s already neck-deep in debugging it.

And no matter what it is, Jon’s an experienced programmer himself. I’m sure he could have made his own Handmade Hero series if he wanted.

While I am not the developer, I am 99.5% certain that it will.

I know these are not new, but if you want to see some other trailers that might show off the tone, you could check out the concept art trailers that are up on Youtube. They’re pretty neat!

http://youtu.be/4h-0Sc2jK88

(Fast forward to 1:35:30)

http://youtu.be/4h-0Sc2jK88

Which video is that?

*Jonathan

According to Jon’s last stream on Rapture there is no jump button.

( And no doors you can’t open, or bar you can’t go behind and the windmill in the witness won’t be a communist windmill)

this is a silly question, it’s like asking “do i not want make my work as good as it can be?” it’s impossible to do any complex thing and have it be completely error-free for all cases on the first run-through.

Yeah I think some videos would be good. Even something simple, similar to the long screenshots from FEZ, where you just have a two minute clip of a scene from one spot on the island with the game’s sounds and the trees and grass swaying subtly. Upload to YouTube at 60fps…. Profit!

I’d love to see a trailer subtly reflecting the tone of the game, if that wasn’t already the original trailer. It wouldn’t have to give much/any of the story away, but also it might raise questions that people aren’t already getting from what they see.

Basically anything to keep the masses from insisting that this is “like an android lock screen puzzle but on an island”.

What the hell, people. (end rant)

I know that there will likely be many interviews and publicity for the game leading up into launch, but will there be another Trailer put out approaching the levels of the main one released way back when?

The reason I ask is that I would imagine that that Trailer could indeed suffice you guys up until launch without the need for another one. It pretty accurately demonstrates everything really well. Or is there another one planned that reflects the more recent state of the game these couple years on from the last?

Not sure about jumping, but I know the E3 build from last year had a sprint button.

Bing able to jump might break some of the puzzles anyways if you could just jump to victory.

That is an awesome trailer!!

This is true. But hey.

The Sad part is, no matter how carefully you are now. One day after launch, YouTube will be filled with “The Witness ending! 1080p High quality” videos… And they will use the most spoilerish shot they can as the thumbnail.

There will be videos of the end before there are even walkthrough videos up… I don’t know which is worse.

At least you can mark the ending as a secret scene on PS4 so it can’t be recorded or broadcasted with the share button.

One of our problems is just that it’s hard to find things to talk about without spoiling the game. Most of what we are working now are massive spoilers. So.

That said, yeah, it is a good idea to post more. You’ll also see us doing more interviews/reveals/etc in the run-up to launch.