If you’re at the intersection (maybe not total) of interactive fiction, game exploration, HyperCard/HyperTalk, and graph theory, and have some fondness for Myst, this is clearly the article series for you.
https://glthr.com/myst-graph-1
/via @zarfeblong
Yet another casualty.
Myst studio Cyan Worlds lays off half its team
https://www.eurogamer.net/myst-studio-cyan-worlds-lays-off-half-its-team
Myst and Riven developer Cyan Worlds lays off 12, essentially cutting its team in half - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/myst-and-riven-developer-cyan-worlds-lays-off-12-essentially-cutting-its-team-in-half #ActionAdventure #VirtualReality #PointandClick #MaximumGames #SinglePlayer #Firstperson #Nintendo3DS #CyanWorlds #NintendoDS #Strategy #Midway #Puzzle #Indie #Riven #myst #iOS #PSP #PC
Sad news at #Cyan. They've had to lay off about half their team and posted a sheet with contact info and disciplines of employees who are looking for new opportunities: https://bsky.app/profile/cyan.com/post/3llhcilutzi2s
This is a crop of talented individuals whose work I think speaks for itself. They are making some of the most imaginative and visually stunning #IndieGames out there (#Myst, #Riven, etc.)
If you or anyone you know is hiring top-tier #GameDevelopers, please put them in touch!
Walking on a street to get something out of a store. Seeing this. Had to run home to grab a camera to quickly snap a photo.
A couple of turns from a moment last year riding up a chairlift. Light felt all myst like with the fog fading through the sky. Shout out to the old game Myst.
@SutroTower This is pretty cool. Also reminds me of playing #Myst.
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@joplinapp Are there any plans to support #MyST markdown in the future?
Holy shit Myst was built on Hypercard!
That explains how two guys were able to make a game like that. Just used Hypercard as the engine.
It's a quiet day at work, so I took like 30 minutes and made an *extremely* naive reprojection of the Pod Age map from Uru onto a sphere using Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator tool (https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/).
The land masses are *roughly* correct, but the topography (biomes, rivers, etc.) is not, apart from maybe the ice cover on Dereno.
#Myst #Uru
Well, nothing is on fire, and all the capture cards are finally working, soooooo.
We'll be streaming Menage-A-Myst - Myst played on three generations of hardware:
1993 Myst on a Powerbook 3400c
2002 realMyst on a Dual Proc PowerMac G4.
2022 Myst on a Modern AMD PC.
Captured on original hardware and lovingly hand mixed in OBS, with just a twist of lemon and fire. NO FIRE.
We're playing til we finish.
Starting at 15:15 GMT.
twitch.tv/betsyandsamantha
Got a few bits to sort, then going to stream Menage-A-Myst until it's complete.
I refuse to finish 2024 with Menage-A-Myst still unfinished.
Will shout with a 15 minute warning.
#RetroGaming Did you know?
- #WingCommander *didn't* hack a DPMI error when it closed. That's a myth.
- #Myst was written in HyperCard on the Mac, w/ a plugin for big 256-color images. Broderbund created a custom(?) engine to port it to Windows.
- #Undertale has some wonky code, but it still works! Good code is only important if you want your game to run on a 486 (I wish Undertale ran on a 486!)
- #SimCity2000 for #Windows3 had a use-after-free bug that #Windows95 was patched to accommodate.
Joined by family and friends for some Myst Online puzzle solving goodness! Come on by, if you'd like. :)
