#THE WITNESS ENVIRONMENTAL PUZZLES SERIES#
#THE WITNESS ENVIRONMENTAL PUZZLES TV#

#THE WITNESS ENVIRONMENTAL PUZZLES TV#

Three puzzles later, we found ourselves glued to the tv in the lounge of my apartment, arguing over the best way to solve a puzzle.

When I first started playing, my friends wandered over, interested in the vibrant colors and scenery of the game I was playing. I will be using the listing of motivations from Quantic Foundry’s Gamer Motivation Model. I want to look at how the game managed this feat by discussing how it caters to different player motivations. By the end of the day, two of my friends and I were completely obsessed with the game.

Later, after my subconscious had been mastered by this game, I found out that the designer of the game was Jonathan Blow, the designer behind Braid, another game I loved.

The game is a 3D puzzle game released in 2016 by Thekla, Inc. I originally approached it as a beautiful and relaxing puzzle game I could fit into breaks between study sessions. The Witness is available now for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nvidia Shield, macOS, and iOS.I started playing The Witness alone back in the first week of April 2018. Suffice to say, anyone who completes the shipwreck puzzle without any help deserves a hand-written congratulations and perhaps an apology from Jonathan Blow. Even when recognizing these three rules, the puzzle is still brutally difficult to solve. To solve the Shipwreck door puzzle, players must recognize that it is a symmetry puzzle, despite the second line not showing - they must also recognize that the ambient sounds of water dripping and the ship creaking correspond to the path the line must traverse - and finally they must recognize that the red light illuminating the door is affecting the colors of the dots. The Shipwreck door puzzle takes the crown as The Witness' most grueling test, predominantly because it has not one, not two, but THREE hidden mechanics. Surprisingly, a puzzle that takes an hour to complete isn't The Witness' most infamous task. But it's one of the game's toughest tasks as players first need to memorize the map to traverse the maze and find the puzzles before solving both randomly generated puzzles with enough time to spare to complete the rest of The Challenge. Given unlimited time, the puzzles wouldn't be too tricky. Throughout this maze are two puzzles that require players to draw a line from start to finish, while boxes with triangles inside must be drawn past by the exact number of triangles within. There's more to this puzzle than there initially seems, though, as it acts as a map for a later maze. Near the start of The Challenge, players must solve a fairly simple maze puzzle. RELATED: The Most Beautiful Indie Games Of 2021 To put it bluntly, players need to have mastered every type of puzzle in The Witness in hopes of beating The Challenge. The puzzles are randomly generated, feature a wide range of puzzle types, and must be completed within a set time.

#THE WITNESS ENVIRONMENTAL PUZZLES SERIES#

The Challenge is a hidden series of puzzles that can be found after activating every laser.

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