Jonathan Blow's eagerly awaited 3D puzzler, The Witness, is about a month away. As such, the developer is starting to reveal more details about the game, releasing today a new "long screenshot" along with a slew of other details.
"This week we just finished recording the majority of the final voiceover. We're going to do a little more in early January, but most of it is in the can," Blow said in an update today. A more official announcement of the actors will come some time after the New Year, although Blow did tease that you may know some of them from other games.
In addition to the screenshot and voice over update, Blow also revealed that The Witness could see a physical retail release, although it probably won't happen until "a little big after" the digital release.
"The reason is just that we need all the time we can get up until the release date in order to get all the finishing touches into the game; but because of the lead-time involved in physical manufacturing and distribution, we would have to freeze the game right about now in order to have it on store shelves for the release date. *Or* we could delay the digital release date in order to wait for the physical," Blow explained. "But I don't see a good reason to do either of those things. I would rather just focus our energy on making the game as good as we can make it, and a retail version can lag behind by a little bit."
As for development on the game, which is set to release on January 26th, Blow said the team is doing "lots of little gameplay fixes all around the island, like, what does collision feel like in this area when you bump into things, what happens if you are standing in this doorway and the door tries to close on top of you, all that kind of thing." Visually, the team is doing spot-fixes, so what you see in the video screenshot above is more or less what you'll see when the game releases in January.
The Witness will be available for PS4, PC, and iOS devices.
