We’ve been averaging about a blog post a month — not by design, it just works out that way — which means if we stick to that pace, then in just one more posting, the launch of the game will be imminent. Well, I think we will post a little …
Music and Sound Effects Once in a while I get a question, from someone who really liked the music in Braid, what the soundtrack in The Witness is like. The answer to this question is that there isn’t one. There is (almost) no music in the game. This is not …
In the last few weeks we’ve been adding the final art touches to the island. Now that we have all the content locked down, Deanna, one of the architects, is reviewing all the structures we created and make sure they are as correct as possible. Even though they previously designed …
On Friday we officially reached the Puzzle Complete milestone. This means that all puzzles that will be in the game when it ships are in the game now. It does *not* mean that the game is done. We still have a lot to do! But it *does* mean that the nature …
We built a DirectX11 rendering backend for our engine, which is likely to be the default when running on Windows. Up until now we had been running on DirectX9, which made sense when we thought the game was going to be done a while ago. But these days, DX9 is …
… … Ignacio has posted the conclusion of his series on irradiance caching — at long last! — and released the source code. This code is a significant chunk of what makes lighting in The Witness as nice as it is.
Final day and a lot more little things to polish than I expected. Every time I got something fixed another problem would pop up. We got everything in a good state for E3 but there are quite a few more ideas we want to try for the castle visuals, probably 2 or 3 …
Getting close to the end of the week. Most of the key detail has been added to the walls and I feel, if we had to send this build to E3, it wouldn’t be terrible. We managed to get in some really nice framing details that I won’t spoil here but …
Here is the progress for today. Detail has been added to the rest of the walls and towers as well as windows and other smaller features. We’ve had some discussions about the style of the battlements so those might change tomorrow or after. Here are the new modular pieces that were …
Since we have only one week to get the entry area ready before E3 I was thinking it could be interesting to have a post at the end of each day to show how we are progressing. It will balance out the high programming post count we’ve had the past few days and …