I always wondered what Rand and/or Robyn Miller think about The Witness.
Did a little research, now I know that Rand approves:
"How about Jonathan Blow’s The Witness? He’s come out in interviews and said it was sort of inspired by Myst.
RM: Oh yeah. I’m honored. He’s a genius with his design, so I’m excited to give it a shot. I love his work, and honestly I don’t know what to expect. I’ve heard the same thing, that it was kind of inspired, but I’ve seen screenshots with some of the puzzle-based stuff so it’ll be fun for me to plunge in. It’s always fun for me to jump into something that people says is inspired by Myst and explore."
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2063396/deep-dive-with-myst-co-creator-rand-miller-the-full-interview.html?page=3
(In case some of you have never heard of Rand and Robyn Miller: These two brothers created Myst, the game that inspired The Witness. Myst was released in 1993 on Mac and PC and sold around 6 million copies on PC alone, its sequel Riven from 1997 around 4.5 million copies, both were the two most successful PC games of the 90s. Myst was ported to numerous platforms over the past two decades, incl. PS1, PSP, DS and iOS.)
