It’s been a while since we last heard from Jonathan Blow regarding his puzzle game The Witness, but now the developer has posted an update on the status of the project.
Blow says that the game is now “Puzzle Complete”, to the tune of 677 different challenges, though work on other important aspects of the game still continues apace.
“On Friday we officially reached the Puzzle Complete milestone,” Blow writes. “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 of the work changes and becomes simpler, because we don’t have to be making high-level creative decisions any more.
“It is now much more about turning the finish-the-game crank (making sure stuff plays well and polishing it up) for anything related to game design, modeling and texturing.”
Maybe don’t get too excited just yet. The game’s designer Orsi Spaynol said the team were in “finish-the-game mode” last August. Still, as Blow says the fact that there’s no more work to do on the main aspect of the game is “pretty good news” for fans awaiting a release date
