Last November I made a somewhat-mysterious posting which some people speculated was hinting at stereoscopic rendering in The Witness. Indeed it was, and Now It Can Be Told. Last year I was pessimistic about VR systems in the near future, since the ones I had tried didn’t seem to offer …
… so here one is. Luis has been doing a lot of work lately on the mountain and especially the stuff at the top. Other folks have been doing a bunch of work on things that are not as obvious in this picture! Current puzzle count: 595
About a month ago, I gave a speech at Creative Mornings in Portland about the way the Free-to-Play business model affects game design. I compared games to television, looking at the way television business models have drastically affected the composition of those shows. (I didn’t name this speech; the …
Interview with Adam Sessler at last week’s PlayStation event: Discussion on PlayStation Blogcast (Witness talk starts around 26:25): http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/10/18/playstation-blogcast-094-witness-the-daylight/ (From the way the PS guys talk, it sounds like it is all me making this game, but as always on games of this size, there is a whole team …
Sony had an event today at their offices in Foster City to give the press some hands-on time with upcoming games running on the PlayStation 4. The Witness was among the games being shown! We were the only third-party game there. Also shown were a whole lot of Killzone: Shadow …
It’s been a long time since the last posting! Time flies. Normally I would post an Island Snapshot, but the viewpoint we have been using for Island Snapshots is a little bit unfortunate lately, since the main thing taking up the view is the mountain, which is an area we …
Once again, we have been mostly working on things you can’t see from this angle. The most-visible changes are probably the peninsula on the left in the foreground, which has undergone extensive work lately: It’s been revamped by Alex, who is new on the team, helping us with the huge …
In May, we wrote about a bunch of ideas for posters for The Witness. We couldn’t say so at the time, but we were prompted to do this by the inclusion of such a poster in a PlayStation 4 promotional video. Of all the possibilities we ran through, here’s the …
… which doesn’t look too much different from last time’s. Partially this is because we’ve been working on things that you don’t see from this angle. Here’s a shot from a different angle: We still have so much to do! On my end, I’ve been working for the …