Since The Witness takes place in the outdoors much of the time, we knew from early on that we were going to want to have grass of some kind. We added grass into the engine quite a long time ago (starting around December 2009?) and it’s gone through several iterations …
Toward the back you can see some of the stuff that was being worked on in the previous post (but from a different angle!) The current puzzle count is 251. That’s pretty good, but on top of the increase from last time, another 25 of the old puzzles were rewritten. …
This is an experiment in writing up a blog post for a development task while I actually perform the task! So right now, as I start writing this, I don’t know how it will end! I was talking to David Hellman about the game the other day, and he was …
Today I was deleting an old area of the island, which had about 25 puzzles in it that I wasn’t happy with. I took to wondering how many puzzles would be left on the island after I deleted those, so I added a console command to count puzzles: So, there …
The past week has been a very productive time in terms of world-building. The island has been shrunk further, with several of the locations that used to be further to the right moved inward. The white-walled location from last time used to be a standalone structure, but is now built …