The Witness - Jonathan Blow's Tracy Island Mashup - The Bear and Badger

dynamiteReady

Bollockoff wrote:

Fucking classic.

Bollockoff

JUST LIKE THIS GAME

dynamiteReady

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

Oh yay. Been looking forward to this! Can't believe it's been 6 years

We don't usually baulk if an animation was said to be in production for that long, but a long gestation period for a videogame almost always rings an alarm bell.

I mean the current trend right now appears to favour an effort to wodge a beta version out, and have the masses both validate and QA the product.

This will be something quite different...

And then there's still the mystery of the iOS version...

hylian_elf

Are animations usually announced 6 years before general release though?

Tempy

It isn't often games are made by very particular people who tear them apart every few months when they feel the need to re-write entire parts of the bespoke engine either. Hopefully Blow does not become Blowhard.

GooberTheHat

Blowharder

dynamiteReady

hylian_elf wrote:

Are animations usually announced 6 years before general release though?

Occasionally. I'm also talking about film generally.

Plenty of films get announced many years before they're finished...
Like the brand spanking new Star Wars...

Tempy

He really is borderline insufferable, but he's also a bit of a genius. I really do wonder if coding a bespoke engine for a game like Witness will really elevate it beyond using existing tools, but I am not really an expert in these things.

n0face

I'm looking forward to it.

Tempy

Me too, it'll probably be incredible

dynamiteReady

Tempy wrote:

He really is borderline insufferable, but he's also a bit of a genius. I really do wonder if coding a bespoke engine for a game like Witness will really elevate it beyond using existing tools, but I am not really an expert in these things.

I often wonder about that.

The Japanese, with the PS4 and Nintendo's move to embrace Unity, have basically agreed that this 'custom engine' lark is now a bit silly.
But it hasn't stopped anyone from developing new ones.

g.man

It would be quite amusing if it turned out to be absolute guff, and his engine was hilariously broken tho.

ShabbyMcCrabby

Long gestation worked for Fez!

I believe

Tempy

dynamiteReady wrote:

Tempy wrote:

He really is borderline insufferable, but he's also a bit of a genius. I really do wonder if coding a bespoke engine for a game like Witness will really elevate it beyond using existing tools, but I am not really an expert in these things.

I often wonder about that. The Japanese, with the PS4 and Nintendo's move to embrace Unity, have basically agreed that this 'custom engine' lark is now a bit silly. But it hasn't stopped anyone from developing new ones.

That's true, but we're talking a very particular style of monomania with Blow!

ShabbyMcCrabby

I can't wait to read the interviews about him moaning that people "just aren't getting it"

dynamiteReady

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

Long gestation worked for Fez! I believe

I wanted to mention Fez... The epitome of a custom engine, that.

As for all the character deformation, some of his talks about making Braid were superb.
Can't really see any reason to hate the guy, and quite glad that someone like him has the budget to do what he likes.

Didn't he write Braid single handedly?

Skerret

I get it. I have always just gotten it.

Gamermike

In Blow we trust. I loved Braid, it was one of the few XBLA games I bought at release.

Its been a long time coming, hopefully theres a good game in there.

equinox_code

It wouldn't surprise me if the Talos Principle was to blame for a portion of the delay. They might have been a bit too similar.

[Deleted User]

When's it out? Feb?

Skerret

March 2016.

Stopharage

January 26th. Still got to keep our eye on these sneaky antipodeans.

three1ne

I am fully erect for this game.

Brooks

Still haven't done Talos, still oughta.

dynamiteReady

equinox_code wrote:

It wouldn't surprise me if the Talos Principle was to blame for a portion of the delay. They might have been a bit too similar.

Now that... I ought to try.
And it does look eerily similar.

It's going for about 8 quid on Steam, so why the fuck not...

I still have a lot of faith in JBlo*...
I mean Braid is nothing like Mario, though at a glance, it's a cheap Giana Sisters-esque ripoff.

So perhaps The Witness will be similarly distinguishable.

But with my enthusiasm for the novelty of the concept, I'll have to try Talos.

*Sorry...

Skerret

Braid is much better than Mario.

Billy

I love braid, I really, really love it, such a good fucking game, as long as y don't get annoyed reading all the shit along the way, which I didn't read,I just went ahead.

As such I can't watch videos of this cos I don't want to spoil it, so badgers please, when it come out you are the barometer, if I should plump cash or not.

Skerret

I think in the interest of advancing the medium you should plump regardless.

hylian_elf

Skerret wrote:

Braid is much better than Mario.

Different genres. Also, no. It's not. Not by a very very very long way.

mistercrayon

This feels like the overarching world will be more involved than the talos.

Did anyone see the stuff recently about the battlefield easter Egg. Fucking madness!

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