The Puzzle pleasures of 'The Witness' gets finishing touches for PS4

The Witness ,the best 3-D puzzle game is coming soon to PS4. Caption

The much awaited 3-D puzzle game of our time “The Witness” sure provides exclusive variety to the existing lot of video games by providing puzzle pleasure on PC. The games designer Jonathan Blow had always intended to the release the game for the last – generation consoles. However at that time the idea seemed to be to far fetched to be realised into reality. With the advent of technologhy, since the games release in 2009 Thekla, Inc and Blow have taken up the cause to bring this exclusive game to PS4. According to an announcement made by Blow, a time-limited exclusive title for the PlayStation 4 was undertook for development. The game is also availble for Windows and iOS.

The Gameplay

The puzzle adventures of The Witness can be experienced in first view ,The player, as an unnamed character, finds himself on an island with numerous structures and natural formations. The island is divided into ten sections arranged around a mountain that represents the ultimate goal for the player. Within each section, the player will encounter numerous puzzles, and once the player has completed all puzzles in a section, a gold turret will emerge from around that section and shine a light towards the mountain. The player needs to complete seven of the ten sections to be able to access the puzzles within the mountain and complete the game. The puzzles within each section are based on a similar theme, with early puzzles in the sections designed to help the player identify the theme and understand how to solve the later puzzles. All puzzles are based on a mechanic of tracing a path through a maze-like route; the goal of these puzzles is not always to simply complete the maze but to find the right path of several that completes the puzzle correctly. Throughout the island are stations with audio recordings that provide obfuscated background information for the player.

The Endless Development Process

Early in the development process, Blow had suggested that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 may be possible release platforms, in addition to Windows and iOS. He later stated that they have foregone immediate development towards these platforms, Blow later clarifying this was "due to the relatively low system specs". As the release date for The Witness slipped, the chance for developing on the next-generation of consoles became a possibility. On November 13, 2013, Jonathan Blow confirmed the budget for the game to be "something like [$]3-4 million". For now an official relase date has not been announced for the game but we can expect it soon.