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A Shader Trick

2018

Congratulations to the grant recipients!

Testing the Jai Compiler

2017

The Witness if finally on iOS!

MacOS System Requirements

Help Us Get The Witness on iOS!

Anniversary!

The PS4 patch is out!

PS4 Pro Patch update

The Witness is out on the Xbox One@

We're doing a PS4 Pro patch! Here are the technical details.

Jobs!

Printable Panels!

The Witness Long Screenshot #3

I'll be having a reddit AMA on Friday the 12th of February

Fun Sales Fakts

The Witness is now up on PSN in the Americas and Europe.

The game is doing great on Steam

Pre-Order Widget Test

Price and Pre-Orders

Whose voices are in The Witness

Since making the previous blog post...

Entering the Home Stretch

On Music, Sound Effects, Story

Architecture in video Games

New trailer and interviews!

Workin' on a new trailer.

Bugs!

Witness in Limbo

Polishing the Architecture

Sculpture

Island Snapshot

Thekla!

Progress!

PlayStation Experience

Wallpaper

Close-up

What we've been working on lately.

HLSLParser

Getting Things Done

Irradiance Caching - Continued

Road to E3 - Day 5

Road to E3 - Day 4

Road to E3 - Day 3|

Road to E3 - Day 2

Road to E3 - Day 1

Island Snapshot: What-year-is-this Edition

Witness Wednesday on How to Program

Casey's Witness Wednesday on Interpolation

Witness Friday post on Casey's blog

What's this??

Working on The Witness, Parts 5 and 6.

The Art of "The Witness" - GDC 2014

Marsh Update

Hey look, Oculus support *plus* Steam Controller support.

Hey look, Steam Controller support

Last Minute Area

What that VR post was about

It's been a while since we did an island Snapshot

What could it mean??

A Trip to New York and Some Huge Artwork

A speech about Free-to-Play game design

Recent coverage of The Witness:

Pictures from a Demo Day at Sony

Shadow Mapping Summary - Part 1

The Shipwreck

On the Rocks...

More Screenshots

Wallpapers!

Island Snapshot

Here's That Poster

A Long Overdue Tree Update

Island Snapshot

Poster Ideas

Island Snapshot

iPad video update #1

Island Snapshot

A clarification about our PS4 exclusivity

First official trailer for The Witness

The Witness Audio: 1000 Subtle Layers

Interview about The Witness and related design topics

If you like first-person puzzle games...

How do you say "plane" in The Witness?

Island Partition

Thoughts about App Store 'Curation'

Island Snapshot

What I Did on My Christmas Vacation

A Cliffside Cliffhanger

Finding and Fixing a Five Second Stall

Mapping the Island's Walkable Surfaces

Island Snapshot

Collecting Playtest Data

Very Limited, Very Closed Beta

scope(exit) in C++ 11

You know the game is coming along...

Post-Shrink Screenshots

We are going Map Crazy.

Island Snapshot two-for-one

iPad Victory Short

VM_TOUCH is totally bananas.

Packaging Update

Island Snapshot...

A note about programming language design

What a Difference a Year Makes

Island Snapshot

Regarding Water

Fun with package sorting

Steam is cool.

Fun with in-engine color grading

Island Update, with bonus map

Thoughts on Consoles and Certification Processes

Fun With Subtitles

Island Update

Meeting Photos

The Depth Jam

Island Update

Peter Thiel on Secrets

Island Update

Panel Art Update

Island Update

Post-GDC update

Seamless Cube Map Filtering

Playtest; Island Update

Dear Esther is out.

Island Snapshot

The trailer for Dear Esther is out now.

Engine Tech: Concurrent world editing

Architecture in The Witness

My Screenshots folder

New game: Q.U.B.E. will be released on December 16th.

Update!

Designing to Reveal the Nature of the Universe

Saying hi.

Island Snapshot

Interview on GameSpot's HotSpot podcast

A pleasant lightmapping update

A podcast with some background details...

Previews of The Witness are now out there.

Irradiance Caching - Part 1

Tree Update

A few new graphical effects.

How to program independent games

Witness Trees

Thinking about color

Themed areas

More island color experiments; shadow update

Landscape color studies

Whew!

Braid playthrough with director's commentary

GDC Playtesting; the island shrinks again...

Jobs!

Grassing it up...

Update!

A glimpse into the terrain design process.

How many puzzles are in The Witness?

Island Update

The Island Today

Adventures in Fisheye Lenses

CVG appear to be a bunch of lousy hacks.

The Jeffrey Roberto Concerto on Social Games

Island Snapshot

Experiments in Texturing

A new lecture about game design.

About the Blue Mazes

Hemicube Rendering and Integration

Computing Alpha Mipmaps

We showed The Witness secretly at PAX... in plain sight.

Design Charrette

Island Paint-Over

Island Shrinkage

Why aren't video games satisfying?

Braid: A Movement Piece

The Island Today

A game to watch for: Miegakure

Hey, who is making this game?

Location Development

The Indie Fund submissions process is now open...

Island Snapshot

Kriging is cool.

The island this week.

The island so far...

Graphics Tech: Shadow Maps (part 2): Save 25% texture memory, and possibly much more.

Graphics Tech: Multi-lightmaps

Lighting Parameterization

Graphics Tech: Lighting Comparison

Graphics Tech: Shadow Maps (part 1)

Announcing Indie Fund

Twitter and Facebook pages are now live.

Graphics Tech: Precomputed Lighting

Concept Art

Welcome to the development blog for The Witness

Videos

Featured images

The Witness Links

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