Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Thursday, 29 April, 2010

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Witcher 019a - Vizima After Dark

0:00 - Temple Quarter
2:30 - Zoltan
4:00 - Consequence Movie
5:40 - Hairy Bear Inn
5:00 - Innkeeper
5:50 - delooting
9:00 - Temple Quarter



Witcher 019b - Vizima After Dark

0:00 - Thaler
2:30 - shop
4:10 - Temple Quarter
4:40 - Salamandra
5:50 - Kalkstein



Witcher 019c - Vizima After Dark

0:00 - Kalkstein
1:20 - shop
2:20 - Salamandra
2:50 - Temple Quarter
3:50 - Hairy Bear Inn
4:50 - shop
5:30 - Ramsmeat
7:10 - Talents

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Tuesday, 27 April, 2010

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Witcher 018a - Entering The Temple Quarter

YouTube can't seem to decode the video file. I'll keep trying, but in the meantime you can download the original here.

0:00 - Siegfried
0:40 - Sewers (Drowners)
4:55 - Knight's Corpse
5:40 - Sewers
6:00 - Cockatrice
6:45 - Siegfried (Salamandra)



Witcher 018b - Entering The Temple Quarter

0:00 - Temple Quarter
2:10 - Vincent Meis
3:10 - Dungeon
5:35 - Temple Quarter



Witcher 018c - Entering The Temple Quarter

0:00 - Detective Raymond's House
0:20 - Detective Raymond
4:50 - Ambush
6:30 - Looting

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Thursday, 22 April, 2010

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Witcher 017a - Scorched Earth

0:00 - ~Abigail~
1:15 - meditation
2:00 - prep
2:45 - mob chat




Witcher 017b - Scorched Earth

0:00 - dog fight
1:30 - jerks from town
3:45 - looting
4:45 - Abigail
5:30 - Shani
6:20 - to the gates
8:45 - Mikul




Witcher 017c - Scorched Earth.mp4

0:00 - chapter two intro
1:20 - Professor
2:05 - cellmates
3:25 - sheriff's offer
6:25 - guard
7:15 - sewers
7:55 - Siegfried

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Tuesday, 20 April, 2010

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Witcher 016a - Dirty Laundry

0:00 - elf
0:50 - Haren
3:00 - travel
5:15 - Abigail shop
5:55 - books
6:20 - travel



Witcher 016b - Dirty Laundry

0:00 - Odo
3:10 - weed whacking
4:25 - Odo
6:20 - Odo's dog
7:25 - travel
8:45 - talents
9:30 - alchemy
10:30 - meditate



Witcher 016c - Dirty Laundry

0:00 - travel
0:15 - Blacksmith
2:10 - Herbalist shop
3:10 - Antiquary shop
5:45 - Zoltan
7:15 - Vesna
8:05 - travel



Witcher 016d - Dirty Laundry

0:00 - travel
0:40 - old woman
1:35 - ~Peasant~
2:55 - travel
3:45 - townspeople
6:50 - Reverend
9:45 - travel



Witcher 016e - Dirty Laundry

0:00 - travel
0:55 - inn
3:00 - Shani
3:45 - looting
4:35 - travel
4:55 - lackeys
6:00 - hideout
6:35 - looting



Witcher 016f - Dirty Laundry

0:00 - cave
0:20 - Salamandra boss
2:00 - Alvin
2:40 - looting and thinking
5:45 - Abigail

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Sunday, 18 April, 2010

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Witcher 015a - More Deadly Errands

0:00 - heading for the crypt
3:25 - crypt




Witcher 015b - More Deadly Errands

0:00 - travel
1:15 - Abigail
4:55 - shop
6:45 - talents




Witcher 015c - More Deadly Errands

0:00 - inn
0:50 - inn-ventory
3:10 - Kalkstein
4:00 - travel
4:35 - Huntsman
5:00 - travel
6:20 - Stall-keeper
7:15 - shop
7:30 - travel




Witcher 015d - More Deadly Errands

0:00 - Haren Brogg
2:00 - shop
3:00 - ~Vesna~
5:00 - travel
5:50 - waiting




Witcher 015e - More Deadly Errands

0:00 - travel
1:25 - alchemy
3:30 - drowners
5:50 - elf (vote on goods)

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Wednesday, 14 April, 2010

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I'M TAKING A BREAK AFTER THIS!

Witcher 014a - Making Fate

0:00 - King of the Wild Hunt
1:55 - Alvin
3:35 - Abigail




Witcher 014b - Making Fate

0:00 - Leuvaarden
0:40 - Fat Fred
2:15 - Shani
2:40 - inventory
5:40 - talents
6:55 - Vesna




Witcher 014c - Making Fate

0:00 - Abigail
0:25 - WTF?
1:55 - Berengar's notes
4:05 - main quest notes
5:10 - beggar grandma
5:55 - alchemy
8:10 - looking for grandma




Witcher 014d - Making Fate

0:00 - Reverend
1:05 - Alvin
1:50 - main quest notes
2:45 - Reverend
6:10 - Mikul
7:20 - crypt prep




Witcher 014e - Making Fate

0:00 - crypt
2:50 - new sign (Igni)
4:15 - Salamandra
5:50 - aftermath cinema
6:45 - Kalkstein
7:20 - Mikul
9:15 - Kalkstein




Witcher 014f - Making Fate

0:00 - looting
1:00 - hunting
4:00 - new sign demo
6:15 - map review
6:30 - Huntsman




Witcher 014g - Making Fate

0:00 - Vesna in trouble
1:45 - new mission and looting
3:20 - teamwork
5:40 - Vesna
6:40 - bonus barghests

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Monday, 12 April, 2010

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Witcher 013a - Lazy Day Of Getting Paid

0:00 - talent points
1:40 - Shani
2:15 - fist fighting (vote on Fat Fred reward)
3:15 - bard
4:45 - talking to peasants
6:15 - nice peasant woman (vote on boning)
6:45 - more talking to peasants




Witcher 013b - Lazy Day Of Getting Paid

0:00 - talking to peasants
1:40 - Reverend
4:05 - burying Leuvaarden's friend
4:45 - WTF? (vote on attitude toward destiny)

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Sunday, 11 April, 2010

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Witcher 012a - A Good Night's Work

0:00 - talents & alchemy
2:15 - Shani
2:50 - killing stuff
7:10 - random merchant
7:55 - killing stuff



Witcher 012b - A Good Night's Work

0:00 - cave
3:15 - killing stuff
6:00 - Abigail
7:30 - store stuff
10:25 - voting (vote for three talent points please)

Skill Tree in the OP

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Saturday, 10 April, 2010

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Witcher 011a - More Exploring The Outskirts

0:00 - racists
1:05 - Zoltan
4:10 - a little looting
5:35 - trying to get into the city
6:35 - map review
7:00 - Abigail




Witcher 011b - More Exploring The Outskirts

0:00 - walking
0:30 - strange dice
3:15 - Shani
4:55 - Leuvaarden
6:20 - voting

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Friday, 9 April, 2010

GAME JOURNALS CONTAIN SPOILERS. DEAL WITH IT PINK BOY.

Witcher 010a - Exploring the outskirts

0:00 - talent points
2:20 - random townspeople
3:10 - Drunkard
4:10 - leaving the inn
4:55 - Herbalist
8:15 - leaving the palisade



Witcher 010b - Exploring the outskirts

0:00 - Royal Huntsman
2:30 - trip to town
4:30 - militia checkpoint
5:15 - Reverend
7:35 - a bit more wandering
9:00 - a choice

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Thursday, 8 April, 2010

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Time to pick up the pace or I'll never get this done.

Witcher 009a - Scary Town Inn

getting acquainted with our new surroundings

0:00 - outside the inn
2:25 - notice board contracts
5:00 - entering the inn / Shani
6:55 - Alvin
7:20 - fist fighting



Witcher 009b - Scary Town Inn

0:00 - talking to the gambler
1:55 - talking to the innkeeper
3:15 - delooting
3:40 - new potion formulas
4:15 - potion taste test
5:15 - time to rest



If you want to vote on skills go check out the skill tree in the forum post.

(push the "show spoiler" button)

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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Witcher 008 - Leaving Kaer Morhen

sex, a funeral, a monster attack, and a prophecy

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Monday, April 5, 2010

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Witcher 007 - Fool's Errands

If you wanted more babbling and missing the obvious, your wish has been granted.

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Monday, April 5, 2010

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Witcher 006 - Bandit Aftermath

We explore a bit more of Kaer Morhen while gathering ingredients to make a healing potion for Triss.

Keepalive: Champions Online, The Witcher Let's Play

written by Blain Newport on Sunday, April 4, 2010

This post was two weeks late.

Sorry I've been neglecting the blog lately. It's been busy. I've been starting The Witcher Video Talkthrough / Let's Play. I didn't like calling most of my vids Let's Plays because the players didn't get to make decisions. But they are getting to make them in The Witcher.

I'm learning a bunch of new tools to make The Witcher as beautiful as possible. Instead of Windows Movie Maker, I'm editing by putting together AviSynth scripts in the AvsP editor, which is frameserving to VirtualDub, which is writing a file in lossless HuffYUV, which then gets used by MediaCoder to encode to the best possible settings that still keep me under my personal max file size of 200MB (which are H.264, variable bit rate, 58% quality). Then I have a seven step publishing checklist to post the result to YouTube, Mediafire, this blog, and the Penny Arcade forum thread.

I didn't want to clutter the blog with an entire post about all that, which I easily could have. It's been a lot of work.

And in every spare moment, I've been trying to get the most out of my one month of City of Heroes. Subscription models encourage unhealthy patterns of play, and I am not above grinding like crazy before my sub expires.

You may remember when I got my hands on the character creator.


me as a techno wizard


naked sunburn lady


the leather giant


and who could forget diaper baby

I'll give you one guess which design I ended up with.

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Friday, 2 April, 2010

GAME JOURNALS CONTAIN SPOILERS. DEAL WITH IT PINK BOY.

Witcher 005 - Retake The Lab

Beating back the bandits comes with a price.

Mediafire download

Game Journal: The Witcher

written by Blain Newport on Thursday, April 1, 2010

GAME JOURNALS CONTAIN SPOILERS. DEAL WITH IT PINK BOY.

Witcher 004 - First Choice

We get our first potion, our first spell, and have to choose our path in the fight against the bandits.

BONUS NOTE: I'm uploading the source files on MediaFire. They're higher quality, so if you're finding the text hard to read or just want to see the best looking version, download from there.