We brought The Witness to the Game Developers Conference and had the game playable privately in a hotel room to select members of the press.<\/p>\n
We had to do a lot of work to get the game back into playable condition; a lot of things had been broken since the press tour last August \/ September. (When you are making sweeping changes to a big and complicated game world, it is pretty easy for things to get bent out of shape). So the GDC served as a good internal deadline to have the game banged back into shape.<\/p>\n
I didn't expect a lot of press coverage to come out of this, because at the GDC there's just a lot of stuff going on, a lot of things for people to pay attention to and write about. So I had been doing this mostly as an opportunity to keep the press up-to-date with the game, see how it is evolving graphically, etc. But, to my surprise, we got a lot of coverage. Here are links to what people are saying about the game lately:<\/p>\n
First, a video interview on Gamespot<\/a> (excerpted; we probably talked for 45 minutes or an hour).<\/p>\n Kirk Hamilton at Kotaku finds a musical treatment for The Witness' game design philosophy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ben Kuchera at the Penny Arcade Report, with a piece about online distribution channels<\/a>, and another biz-focused one<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ben Gilbert at Joystiq, with a design-oriented posting<\/a> and also a more biz-like one<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alex Rubens from G4 with an overall preview of the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n