{"id":447,"date":"2010-08-18T21:59:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T04:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/?p=447"},"modified":"2010-08-18T21:59:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T04:59:11","slug":"island-shrinkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2010\/08\/island-shrinkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Shrinkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/?p=424\">the previous update<\/a> I talked about how, despite the fact that The Witness is an \"open-world\" game, we are trying to make the environment as compact as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Today I took a step in that direction by moving some areas around and compacting the island, changing its shape a bit:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/shot_2010.08.18__time_21_03_n01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-448\" title=\"shot_2010.08.18__time_21_03_n01\" src=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/shot_2010.08.18__time_21_03_n01-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here's a shot from the other side of the island, where you can see that there is plenty of empty space left:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/shot_2010.08.18__time_21_03_n02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-448\" title=\"shot_2010.08.18__time_21_03_n02\" src=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/shot_2010.08.18__time_21_03_n02-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So-me of this will be filled with new gameplay, some will be removed or reshaped, etc, depending on how things evolve.<\/p>\n<p>Here's a close-up of a new area; there's something going on there with a lot of wires, and stuff:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/shot_2010.08.18__time_21_04_n03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-450\" title=\"shot_2010.08.18__time_21_04_n03\" src=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/shot_2010.08.18__time_21_04_n03-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous update I talked about how, despite the fact that The Witness is an &#8220;open-world&#8221; game, we are trying to make the environment as compact as possible. Today I took a step in that direction by moving some areas around and compacting the island, changing its shape a \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2010\/08\/island-shrinkage\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}