Speeding up the game development process… Hrm.

keep it up, and looking forward to the game ;)

Errr… Well, let’s wait for the game, but I think they will be very different suppositions about the story, like for Braid. Even in France there are a lot of debate about Braid, is it really the creation of the nuclear bomb ? I don’t think so…
You know, my English is not so good, I’m only 15… I still have a lot of things to learn in English.

Then what do you think? And so who are you? And consequently who *is* the titular witness?

I kind of don’t think that the player is the titular witness.

Take as much time as it takes to finish it, I could even wait 20, 30 years just to play this refine piece of art.

@BlackTree: I think in this sense it is supposed to be realistic and very! Idk about the graphic style and if they are going for realistic or photoreal graphics but just look at the island and the history. alot of care and attention went into making it plausible and realistic. From the island features, history and its natural occurrences. And the psychological part of being alone and lonely in an environment reminds me of Braid too, but in Brid you atleast had enemies, here you have nothing. just you in the island and trust me you won’t be getting off the island at the end of the game there is no “Oh this was a good experience now I’m leaving the island and going home!” but why can’t the witness leave? Maybe he did all this to become the designer? Maybe I played this game to become a game designer/programmer and I won’t be leaving this island? And what was I doing in a dark hallway, coming from underground tunnels?

btw: Your English is great don’t worry!

e-mails on our site, I’d be interested in hearing your about your process as well.

Yeah, apologies for going off-topic – not really the place for that conversation.

I just like making environments and it is an enjoyable hobby. I think the point of Jon’s speech on indie prototyping is really good and makes a lot of sense. You can e-mail me Luke, I don’t want to talk about my project on someone else’s blog, not sure about the etiquette :)

How we are doing this game is probably not perfect but I don’t have a better idea about how to structure it. If the engine had been fully-ready-to-go at the start, we would have shaved off a fair bit of time, probably. But I am not sure if that would have resulted in some of the puzzles being worse because they weren’t thought about over enough calendar time. Sometimes you just need time. I don’t know.

I don’t think it would have been a good idea to produce “assets” earlier. That only makes things clunkier and more inertial.

The people that were there before the witness himself. What happened to them? Where did they go? Why did they leave in the first place? Why did they even go to that island in the first place! What happened so that they had to migrate there, build, and then just leave?

And why did the witness go there willingly? and how did The Designer take over it all?

Also, I really, really want to play this. Hurry. ;)

I’ve been mostly “polishing as I go” for the game I’m working on currently, which is a departure from the prototyping-first I’ve done in the past – it’s been nice when getting feedback, as people “get” the game a bit more easily without me having to give a bunch of caveats, and I find I feel better about it as I’m developing since I’m not seeing as much ugly temporary art and unfinished todos for months on end. Also gives me a better sense of the production effort ahead. I guess the risk is that if my gameplay vision sucks or needs massive revision I’ll end up tossing a lot of that work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munsell_color_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Color_System

Also I like the vignetting in the last shot camera. :)

My thoughts:
1) Take as long as you need to do it right.
2) OMG GIVE ME THE GAME NOW!!!

I am having difficulty reconciling the two.

Yes, I would definitely like to be able to make more things faster than we currently are. I am not sure how to do that without dropping quality (but we will try).