[PS4] Witness (新世代Myst) | 2016年1月26日發售 | IGN 10/10 (Masterpiece)

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Jonathan Blow's The Witness is timed PS4 exclusive - first trailer

Braid creator shows off next-gen game at PlayStation Meeting

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By Tamoor Hussain for CVG UK

Jonathan Blow's The Witness will launch on PlayStation 4 as a timed exclusive.
The developer of the acclaimed indie puzzle platformer Braid showed of his colourful new open-world puzzle game at the ongoing PlayStation Meeting, and described it as an experience built on "a-ha moments".
According to Blow, The Witness as a game which, "at its core is a game about epiphany, that instantaneous transition of the mind that takes you from confusion to understand."
"One minute your situation seems impossible, you have no idea what the solution to your problem looks like, the next it's all very clear and you wonder how you couldn't have seen this solution before."

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http://kotaku.com/5986093/how-the-wi...n-remain-happy

How The Witness Became a PS4 Game (And Why PC/iOS Owners Can Remain Happy)

Stephen Totilo

One of the biggest surprises of Sony's Wednesday evening press conference was the appearance of Braid lead designer Jonathan Blow. The outspoken indie game creator revealed this his team's next game, The Witness, would make its console debut on the PS4.
That's led to some confusion that the enchanting puzzle game might only come out on PS4. Or only launch on the PS4 first. Not quite, Blow told me today, though he seems to have all but written off any other console releases.
"Our deal with Sony is a limited-time exclusivity that applies only to competing console platforms," Blow said. "Basically it is that you will see the game on the PlayStation 4 before you will see it on the Wii U or the next Microsoft console, if the game ever appears on either of those (whether it appears on those consoles eventually is purely up to whatever future arrangements might happen between us and Nintendo/Microsoft/Random Publishers/Whoever)."
He said that the Sony deal doesn't keep him from also launching the The Witness on PC or iOS at launch, but such matters are more contingent on whether his team can get it prepped for numerous platforms at once. "The ideal situation for us is to release everything simultaneously or close to simultaneously."
So what did Sony pay for this? What did Sony do to get a guy whose last game debuted on the Xbox 360? It wasn't money, Blow said. "People have been speculating that I got a money hat for this agreement with Sony, or that we needed to do this in order to fund development of The Witness. Actually, no money was involved at all.
"Our technical people like the PS4 specs a lot more than the leaked Durango specs."
"The real situation is that, because we are a small developer, we only have the ability to launch on a small number of platforms at once. We liked the idea of being on a console, and originally we thought we might be on the PS3 or Xbox 360, but eventually we decided not to target either of those due to the relatively low system specs. After some more time went by, and our release date drifted further into the future, we realized that the next-generation console launch time might be a good time to release the game. (For a while we were hoping to be out substantially earlier than the next consoles, e.g. right now, so we didn't start thinking seriously about this until recently)."
"The Wii U still has pretty low system specs, so it came down to a choice between the next Microsoft console or the next Sony console. There were people at Sony who really liked the game and were keeping in touch with us about it, and so we naturally started going to their PS4 developer events, got a dev kit, and started playing with it. I don't have good communication with anyone at Microsoft right now, and haven't been disclosed on their next console, but all our technical people like the PS4 specs a lot more than the leaked Durango specs, and we like the positioning of the PS4 (it's about games) a lot more than what we perceive Microsoft's positioning is going to be."
"So we just found ourselves doing a PS4 port. And once we are doing that, it is not practical for us also to think about another console port. We were going to be a de facto console exclusive for Sony no matter what. As I mentioned, there are people at Sony who are very interested in The Witness, so they somehow percolated up through the ranks the idea of showing the game in the launch show. "
"Of course, Sony wants that show to point out things that are going to be exclusive or special to their console. So to be in the show we signed a timed exclusivity for competing consoles. But this was just a formalization of something that was already de facto. We like the PS4 and we like the people at Sony we are working with, so it was an easy choice to make the agreement."

[david]

這是兒童向低B解迷卡通化MYST無誤。

[MachineGunner]

暫時未有乜吸引的地方

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[ahleung]

呢隻360版好像取消了吧.
製作人都鬧左M$好多次.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wit..._video_game%29
http://www.gamefaqs.com/xbox360/969706-the-witness/data

[石主乙個]

braid製作人新作, 啱啱公佈果時已經開始留意, 終於有新消息

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The Witness New Screens & Details

The Witness on PS4: Tiny Details in a Very Big World It has been a while since we made a post on PlayStation.Blog, so I thought I would give an update about what we are working on. The Witness takes place on an island full of puzzles. The island is an open world; you can go anywhere you want, and the game does not try to force you into a linear path. For the past couple of years, we have had the island mostly built in a gameplay sense, and we were trying it out, moving things around, developing location concepts, tweaking puzzles. At this point, most of that stuff is figured out, so we are now going through all the areas of the island and detailing them. What we learned in this process is that the island is in fact very big, for a place where you carefully visit every location during gameplay! Correspondingly, for a small independent team like ours, detailing this huge space is a lot of work! Just the other week, we played through the game from start to finish, to get a fresh perspective and to see everything that is here (because when you are working on a small piece of a game for a long time, it becomes very easy to get tunnel vision and to see only that small piece). Originally I had meant to design an 8-hour game, but The Witness is more like 25-40 hours depending on how much you play (some of the game is optional!) I suspect this is the biggest and most-intricate world ever built for a puzzle game (someone get a consultant from the Guinness Book to verify that!) On the tech side, we are working on making The Witness run with a smooth and solid frame rate, making the graphics look as nice as possible, and ensuring that the streaming system loads things quickly. We wrote our own engine for this game, so on the one hand, it means we get to do a lot of work; but on the other hand, it means we have precise control and can tweak it carefully until it is the highest-quality experience we can deliver. We look forward to giving you an excellent game! blog.us.playstation.com

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http://kotaku.com/try-to-think-your-...zzl-1447207052

Try To Think Your Way Through The PS4's First Big Puzzle Game Right Now

We've been talking about The Witness, the upcoming puzzle/exploration game from Braid-creator Jonathan Blow, for some time now. But for all the words we've spilled and the concept art we've shared, it can still be difficult to explain just how the game's puzzles work.
Yesterday at a Sony-hosted PS4 preview event, I chatted with Blow about The Witness, which will make its debut exclusively on the PS4 sometime in the first half of next year. I asked him to demonstrate a single puzzle, and explain how it builds on itself to organically instruct the player in solving increasingly complex challenges. And that's just what he did. (Sorry about the shaky first 40 seconds or so—I had to get my arms set.)

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Don't come away with the impression that the whole game is a bunch of little connect-the-dots puzzles on an island, though—there's a lot more to it than that. Imagine that the puzzle in the video is a tiny piece of a much, much bigger puzzle—I've played a lot of The Witness at various points over the last couple years, and I've only the barest sense of how the entire thing comes together in the end. As Blow says, this demonstration is a good example of the language of the game's puzzles, but the full game extrapolates the concepts into much larger ideas.

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The Witness Screenshots

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Jonathan Blow provides The Witness development update









The Witness on PS4: New Development Details

The Witness is a game where you explore an abandoned island and solve puzzles. We’ve been working on this game for a long time (It’s been more than five years since I began working on it, myself! The rest of the team joined at various times after that.). We don’t know the release date yet; it’s still officially “when it’s done,” but these days “when it’s done” is getting closer and closer. The Witness is an ambitious game with a lot of things for us to get right, and getting it right takes time; I don’t want to rush the game out at the cost of quality.

Here are some of the things we’ve been working on lately:

• Design. All the gameplay along the “main line” of the game — the stuff you would expect to do from the beginning to the end of a standard playthrough — is done. But, this is a game that has a lot of extra things for players who are really into the game and want more; we’re still designing some of those extras.

• Modeling and texturing. The Witness has a lot of different locations, and it’s very important that they all receive the same degree of care. Most of the island where The Witness takes place is fully modeled at this point, but there are a few important locations that are still in a draft stage, and several others that could use another pass of detail.

• Frame rate optimizations. At launch on PS4, we’re planning to render at 1080p and 60 frames per second. Right now we meet this target in many areas of the game, but not everywhere. But with more old-fashioned hard work, we should be.

• Level-of-detail management and streaming. For example, making sure that it doesn’t take too long to stream in new parts of the world as you move. When we do stream in higher-detail versions of far-away geometry, we don’t want the graphics to pop, so we’ve recently implemented a smooth blend between LOD levels. The Witness is an open-world game with no loading screens; the feeling of just walking around and looking at things is very important. We work hard to make this happen as smoothly as possible.

• Audio. Since The Witness is so much about a sense of place, the audio design is crucial. Right now there are 1.2 gigabytes of sound (Much of it compressed!) in the game, which represents over 40% the game’s data.

This last statement about the audio made me curious about what our data looks like, so here are some numbers on how much data is in The Witness. (These are all the size of files in the game as it would be shipped, not the source files!)

Texture Maps: 1,196 files, 446MB
Meshes: 4,588 files, 507MB
Sounds: 2,435 files, 1.2GB
Animations: 197 files, 0.6MB
Entities: 1 file, 4.3MB
Lightmaps (these are auto-generated): 17,916 files, 453MB
Total (including other files not listed here): 39,387 files, 2.7GB

It’s a lot of work, but we are now in the downhill stretch of the race and looking forward to tying the game up completely. We’ll have more updates for you before too long!

blog.eu.playstation.com

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZbRBen7rCc PlayStation Experience Gameplay

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The Witness Launches for PS4 & PC on January 26










The Witness Launches on PS4 January 26, 2016

Hi everyone!

We finally know the release date for The Witness: it’s January 26, 2016. That’s about four months from now, and it will be a very busy four months as we work hard to make the game the absolute best we can.

We’ll be very happy to get the game out into the world, because we’ve been working on it a long time! We originally thought The Witness would be coming out toward the end of the PS4 launch window, but... there’s just been a lot to do. I think when the game is in your hands, you’ll find it to be intricate and deep, and also unlike anything else you have played.

There’s a lot here. When we started making this game, I figured it would have between 8 and 12 hours of playtime. As it happens, the game we’ve finally built is around 10 times as big as that: if you are a completionist who wants to wring every last drop out of the game, you might expect to play for 80 hours, or possibly 100. For people who don’t want to go quite that far, the game’s still got plenty for you.

Last time I posted to this blog was in May 2014. In that post, just for fun, I gave some stats about how many assets were in the game (3D meshes, animations, sounds, etc). Today I went back and took new measurements of all these things; here’s what we have:


As you can see, we have not been idle!

But those numbers will only increase a tiny bit between now and release. For the most part we are fixing bugs, refining the feel of play, and making sure everything is just right for January.

That’s all from me for now — back to working on the game! — but your fine PS.Blog host Justin has been playing the preview version of The Witness and will be sharing his impressions soon.

Jonathan Blow - President, Thekla, Inc.

blog.us.playstation.com

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IGN Review : Masterpiece 10/10 (Editor's Choice)

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/...witness-review

[ComeLOLoh]

係咪真係咁正架？睇畫面就一般。
我當年覺得MYST其實都係一般。

[cat8642]

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[holsety]

好好奇有冇鋪入

[cat8642]

作者: holsety

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[whassupbun]

作者: holsety

好好奇有冇鋪入

作者: cat8642

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哩隻暫時係得下載版架咋喎, 現時冇確認但亦都冇否定將來會唔會有碟版
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[cat8642]

作者: whassupbun

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不過香港PSN幾時有得dl就唔知喇

oh, 明白哂 Ching, 多謝比料 ... 但即係又要 ... 等 ...