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Cyan Worlds Closes
ThPhox writes "Several former employees are reporting on their blogs that Cyan Worlds, the creator of the Myst series of games for Macintosh and PC, has apparently closed. Myst was the best selling PC game of all time, until The Sims, and inspired four sequels, three novels, and a spin-off MMORPG. In 1993, it had amazing graphics, and was one of the first games to be released on CD-ROM. Riven, released in 1995, stunned the world with unparalleled graphics and story. Cyan, you will be greatly missed. But, as they say; 'Perhaps the ending, had not yet been written...'"
Posted yesterday, and the last bit is mangled. Here's the original.
"I realized the moment I fell into the fissure that the book would not be
destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that starry expense,
of which I had only a fleeting glimpse. I have tried to speculate where it
might have landed, but I must admit that such conjecture is futile. Still,
questions about whose hands might one day hold my Myst book are unsettling
to me. I know my apprehensions might never be allayed, and so I close,
realizing perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
Way to go, editors.
No shit. Even Slashdot's piss-poor search engine found it with a simple search of 'cyan'. Though I suppose it can be explained as Google's fault because they haven't indexed yesterday's Slashdot articles yet.
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You've got to be kidding! The puzzles were simplistic, especially if you bothered to take notes. And they had no connection to the plot, for that matter there was barely any plot at all. Real adventure games are plot driven, and the puzzles fit into that plot. Myst is just so arbitrary. To get an idea of what I'm thinking of, check out the Secret of Monkey Island, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, or Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
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Cyan, you will be greatly missed. But, as they say; 'Perhaps the ending, had not yet been written...'"
Actually, yes it has. Myst and the Cyan studio are unfortunatly part of the dying 'adventure genre' that saw it's peak years ago and has yet to be embraced in a world of games that require fast paced, gun-toting crime lords set on City X. The inability for the PC to be seen as anything else as a MMO/FPS platform in recent years hasn't exactly helped sales either.
Myst was top dog for a long time as the highest selling game, with Sims alone as the only game to have displaced it. For a small studio like Cyan, they've already engraved themselves in video game history. Today, that's about the best you can hope for.
That's because the game was an over-glorified HyperCard stack. It was highly difficult to port to Windows.