A while ago, I wrote a post about package sorting in order to minimize diffs when patching on Steam. I ended up running a straightforward test where we would change the game minimally and build consecutive patches. The patches turned out to be quite large, but upon investigation, it was …
… from a different angle than usual.
This is not about The Witness, but it may be relevant future games that we do! In my spare time I am building a new programming language. Today I made a bunch of tweets about something I was thinking about there… but the ideas are hard to follow on Twitter …
August 2010: September 2011: August 2012:
You can see Ignacio’s new water in this shot (which will continue to improve, and already we have a lot of control over water visuals that we are not using yet). There’s a bunch of new audio in the game. Art folks are working on revising various areas and getting …
(Here’s an internal email that Ignacio sent today that may provide some flavor on what we’re doing lately.) From: Ignacio Castaño Date: 24 August 2012 I just checked in a few changes to the water shader. Note that this is still work in progress, there are some artifacts and unfinished …
As you see in the previous post, lately I’ve been getting the game set up on Steam. Now that it’s in there and working, there are still things to think about and make better. A couple of months ago I was playing Super Monday Night Combat; a much-anticipated weekly update …
Last night I put together a test build of The Witness for Steam. I’d been wanting to do this for a while, but the game’s ability to run in full-release mode had been broken for a while. From day to day, we run the game with unpackaged data files, because …
Quite some time ago, Ignacio put some color grading features into the engine, so that you could tell the postprocessor to tweak colors in particular ways. For a while these features were very experimental; we just had them on a debug menu and there wasn’t a way to save the …
It’s time for another island update: As you’ll notice, we are starting to work on that big mountain that is closest to the camera. (Finally!) This is still an early concept; it will change a lot. Ignacio recently implemented a clean way to print an overhead map of the island, …