Braid Designer's Next Game Probably Won't Be On Consoles

Braid designer Jonathan Blow is currently working on a new game called The Witness. Though Braid made its debut on Xbox 360, Blow says that Witness might bypass consoles altogether.

"We like 360 and PS3, but their specifications are over five years old now, and that's a lot in computer years," Blow told Edge. "The kind of tricks we'd have to perform to get this game working on those platforms are such a lot of work that to port it over at this point is just not worth it for us."

When he first announced The Witness, Blow said that it would be for multiple platforms. Those platforms are, apparently, the PC and Apple mobile devices.

"The budget of this game we would hope to make back through Steam and iOS, plus I would like to make a profit. But breaking even is most important as it allows me to keep making games, and I can do that without consoles. Maybe this time next year I'll be singing a different tune because I found out I was wrong, but I don't think so."

Added Blow: "By the time this game comes out in a year or more, we might be on an iPad 4. We do have to compress the game for that platform, but we don't have to do the certification stuff we would have to on consoles, so we can live with doing just one of those giant tasks. And I like this as an iPad game. It's a natural thing. But we'll see how that plays out."

The Witness is a puzzle game in which players explore an uninhabited island. The latest post on the Witness blog says it currently contains 350 puzzles to solve.