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1993 video game

This article is about the video game. For the media franchise, see Myst (series).

1993 video game

Myst
The box art shows the island of Myst, one of the key settings of the game.
Programmer(s)	Cyan Sunsoft (SS) Alfa Arrangement (PS) Microcabin (3DO) Hoplite Research (PSP, DS & 3DS)
Publisher(due south)	Broderbund Mac Bone NA: Broderbund Sega Saturn JP: Sunsoft EU: Sunsoft NA: Acclaim Amusement PlayStation JP: SoftBank NA: Psygnosis EU: Psygnosis NA: SCEA (PSN) 3DO JP: Micro Cabin NA: Panasonic Microsoft Windows NA: Broderbund European union: Scarlet Orb Entertainment Atari Jaguar CD NA: Atari Corporation CD-i EU: Philips Media AmigaOS EU: PXL Computers PlayStation Portable JP: Sega WW: Midway Nintendo DS European union: Midway NA: Empire Interactive (original) NA: Storm City Games (updated) iOS WW: Cyan Nintendo 3DS NA: Maximum Family Games AU: Funbox Media European union: Funbox Media Android WW: Noodlecake Games
Producer(s)	Laurie Strand
Designer(south)	Rand Miller Robyn Miller
Artist(s)	Robyn Miller Chuck Carter
Composer(s)	Robyn Miller
Serial	Myst
Platform(s)	Mac OS, Saturn, PlayStation, 3DO, Microsoft Windows, Atari Jaguar CD, CD-i, AmigaOS, Pocket PC, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, iOS, Nintendo 3DS, Android, Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2, Nintendo Switch, Xbox I, Xbox Serial Ten/Southward
Release	Mac OS NA: September 24, 1993 Windows 3.ane NA: 1994 3DO NA: March 17, 1995 Sega Saturn NA: September, 1995 PAL: September, 1995 Atari Jaguar NA: December fourteen, 1995 PAL: 1995 PlayStation NA: September 30, 1996 PAL: November fifteen, 1996
Genre(s)	Graphic hazard, puzzle
Mode(southward)	Unmarried-player

Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle video game designed by the Miller brothers, Robyn and Rand. It was developed by Cyan, Inc., published by Broderbund, and initially released for the Macintosh personal reckoner platform in 1993. In the game, players travel via a special book to the island of Myst. In that location, players solve puzzles, and by doing so, travel to four other worlds, known as Ages, which reveal the backstory of the game's characters.

The Miller brothers got their start in video game development by creating titles for children. They conceived Myst every bit their first game for adults, receiving funding from publisher Sunsoft. Development began in 1991 and was Cyan's biggest undertaking to date. Technical constraints of the time influenced the blueprint of the game and the production of its graphics, which were land-of-the-art but static. Robyn Miller composed twoscore minutes of synthesized music that became the soundtrack to Myst.

Myst was a surprise hit. Critics lauded the ability of the game to immerse players in its fictional earth. Selling more than vi million copies, Myst became the best-selling PC game until The Sims exceeded its sales in 2002. Myst helped drive adoption of the new CD-ROM format, spawned a multimedia franchise, and inspired clones, parodies, and new genres of video games. Multiple remakes and ports of the game to other platforms have been released, as well equally spin-off novels and other media.

Gameplay [edit]

Screenshot of Myst showing the eponymous setting of Myst Island. The ship in the foreground is part of a puzzle to achieve another Age, and a library is located behind it.

Myst 's gameplay consists of a first-person journey through an interactive world. Players tin interact with specific objects on some screens by clicking or dragging them.^{[1] : 5–6} The actor moves by clicking on locations shown on the screen; the scene so crossfades into another frame, and the thespian tin explore the new area. Myst has an optional "Zero" feature to assistance in apace crossing areas already explored; when a lightning bolt cursor appears, players can click and skip several frames to another location. While this provides a rapid method of travel, it can likewise cause players to miss important items and clues.^{[1] : 9} Some items can be carried past the actor and read, including journal pages which provide backstory. Players can only carry a single page at a time, and pages return to their original locations when dropped.^{[one] : 13}

To complete the game, the player must fully explore the island of Myst.^[2] There, the player discovers and follows clues to be transported via "linking books" to several "Ages", each of which is a self-contained mini-world. Each of the Ages—named Selenitic, Stoneship, Mechanical, and Channelwood—requires the user to solve a series of logical, interrelated puzzles to complete its exploration. Objects and information discovered in one Age may be required to solve puzzles in another Historic period, or to complete the game's primary puzzle on Myst. For instance, in order to activate a switch, players must beginning observe a combination to a safe, open it, and utilise the matches found within to start a boiler.^[3]

Apart from its predominantly nonverbal storytelling,^[3] Myst 'south gameplay is unusual among adventuring computer games in several ways. The role player is provided with very petty backstory at the beginning of the game, and no obvious goals or objectives are laid out. This means that players must merely brainstorm to explore. In that location are no obvious enemies, no physical violence, no time limit to complete the game, and no threat of dying at any betoken.^[2] The game unfolds at its own step and is solved through a combination of patience, observation, and logical thinking.^[3]

Plot [edit]

Players assume the part of an unnamed person who stumbles across an unusual book titled "Myst". The player reads the book and discovers a detailed description of an isle globe called Myst. Placing their hand on the concluding folio, the player is whisked away to the world described and is left with no choice just to explore the island.^{[1] : 2 [four]} Myst contains a library where two additional books can exist establish, colored red and blue. These books are traps that hold Sirrus and Achenar, the sons of Atrus, who once lived on Myst island with his wife Catherine. Atrus writes special "linking books" that transport people to the worlds, or "Ages", that the books describe. From the panels of their books, Sirrus and Achenar tell the player that Atrus is dead; each blood brother blames the other for the death of their father, as well as the destruction of much of Atrus' library. Both plead for assist to escape. The books are missing several pages, rendering the sons' messages unclear and riddled with static.

Equally the role player continues to explore the island, books linking to more Ages are discovered hidden behind circuitous mechanisms and puzzles. The thespian must visit each Historic period, find the red and blue pages subconscious there, and return to Myst Island. These pages can then be placed in the respective books. Equally the player adds more pages to these books, the brothers tin can be seen and heard more clearly. After collecting four pages, the brothers tin can talk conspicuously plenty to tell the player where the fifth and final missing folio for their book is hidden; if the histrion tin complete either volume, that brother will be set free. The clearer dialog also allows the player to more accurately judge each brother's personality. The player is left with a choice to aid Sirrus, Achenar, or neither.^[5]

Sirrus and Achenar beg the player not to touch the green book that is stored in the same location as their final pages, challenge information technology to be some other trap volume like their own. In truth, it leads to D'ni, where Atrus is imprisoned. When the volume is opened, Atrus asks the thespian to bring him a final folio that is subconscious on Myst Island; without it, he cannot bring his sons to justice. The game has several endings, depending on the player's actions. Giving either Sirrus or Achenar the concluding page of their volume causes the player to switch places with the son, leaving the histrion trapped within the Prison house book. Linking to D'ni without the page Atrus asks for leaves the histrion and Atrus trapped on D'ni. Linking to D'ni with the page allows Atrus to complete his Myst book and return to the island.^[5] Upon returning to the library, the player finds the ruddy and blue books gone, and burn marks on the shelves where they used to be.

Development [edit]

Groundwork [edit]

We started our pattern piece of work and realized that nosotros would demand to have even more story and history than would be revealed in the game itself. It seemed having that depth was just equally of import as what the explorer would actually see.

—Rand Miller, on developing Myst 's fictional history^[6]

In 1988, brothers Rand and Robyn Miller were living autonomously in the U.s.a.. Robyn was taking a year off from university, writing and trying to establish state residency. Rand was a computer programmer for a bank.^{[4] [7]} Rand approached his brother with the idea of making an interactive storybook using HyperCard.^[8] The brothers were not big video game players themselves, although they were familiar with Dungeons & Dragons, and had played Zork.^[9] In his parents' basement—Robyn did not own a estimator himself—Robyn began drawing pictures and creating a nonlinear story that would eventually become their outset game, The Manhole.^[viii] The Manhole and the games that followed—Cosmic Osmo and Spelunx—were specifically aimed at children^[4] and shared the same aesthetics: blackness-and-white graphics, point-and-click gameplay, a first-person point of view, and explorable worlds.^[8] Robyn recalled that the games were more about exploration than narrative: "In the projects we did for children, nosotros didn't actually tell stories ... They were just these worlds that you would explore."^[iv]

Around 1990,^[10] the brothers decided to create a game that would entreatment to adults. Amongst their goals were believable characters, a not-linear story, and for the role player as protagonist to make upstanding choices. The Millers pitched the game to Activision under the title The Gray Summons; Robyn recalled that Activision told them to stick to children's games.^[10] At the fourth dimension of the rejection, they were not doing well financially—"we were eating rice and beans and government cheese and that [was] our diet."^[eleven] Facing the end of their game-producing career, Japanese developer Sunsoft approached the Millers to create an adult-oriented game. Like with The Grey Summons, the Millers wanted their game to have a non-linear story with believable characters and an ethical choice. They too wanted to produce a game with far more impressive graphics than their previous efforts—at i betoken they considered making the game entirely hand-drawn. Finally, they knew their story would be a mystery.^{[11] [12]}

Development of Myst began in 1991.^[4] The game's artistic squad consisted of brothers Rand and Robyn, with assist from sound designer Chris Brandkamp, 3D artist and animator Chuck Carter, Richard Watson, Bonnie McDowall, and Ryan Miller, who together fabricated up Cyan, Inc. Myst was the largest and most fourth dimension-consuming collaboration Cyan had attempted at that point.^[13] Cyan took inspiration from games like Zork, Star Wars ' mythic universe, portals to other worlds similar in C. Southward. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, and the mysterious islands of old literature like the works of Jules Verne.^[9] The game's name, equally well every bit the overall lonely and mysterious atmosphere of the island, was inspired past the volume The Mysterious Island past Verne.^[2]

Sunsoft was not interested in the PC market place and was focused on the video game console market instead. At the fourth dimension, consoles had no difficult drives and minor retentivity buffers, meaning the game had to be designed around these technical constraints. To solve this issue, they compartmentalized parts of the game's environments into the different Ages.^[14] The Millers decided that near people did not similar puzzles. Thus, a good puzzle would feel familiar and part of the globe—not similar a puzzle, but something for players to figure out like a circuit breaker in their firm, using ascertainment and mutual sense.^[15] Cyan did not have fans to please, and did not know exactly who the game would entreatment to; Robyn felt like they did not have to second-guess their choices and could "explore the world equally nosotros were designing" and build a game for themselves.^[16] In a 2022 interview, Rand Miller stated that they strived to design the puzzles in Myst and their subsequent games by trying to balance three aspects: the puzzles themselves, the environment, and the story.^[17] Rand also stated they wanted to make sure that clues to the solutions to puzzles were credible and presented to the thespian in a manner for these connections to be made: "in one case the thespian finds the solution, if they blame us, then we haven't done a good job. But if they blame themselves, then nosotros have."^[17]

The Millers prepared a seven-page game proposal for Sunsoft from their ideas, by and large consisting of maps of the islands they had envisioned.^[12] Cyan proposed Myst to Sunsoft for $265,000—more than double what they thought it would cost to develop the game, merely ultimately less than the game's last cost.^[18] Sunsoft had asked the brothers if their game would be as proficient as the upcoming The 7th Invitee, another CD-ROM video game that had been shown in public preview demonstrations; the Millers assured them it would.^[12] Subsequently getting the go-ahead, Cyan playtested the entire game in a role-played Dungeons and Dragons class to identify any large issues before entering full production.^[19]

Production [edit]

Macintosh computers such as the Quadra 700 were used to develop Myst. Slow single-speed CD-ROM drives and game console memory limitations proved to be constraints.

Myst was not only the largest collaboration Cyan had attempted at the time but also took the longest to develop.^[thirteen] According to Rand Miller, the brothers spent months solely designing the look and puzzles of the Ages,^[xx] which were influenced past earlier whimsical "worlds" made for children.^[6] Much of the early development time was spent devising puzzles and the Ages, and the story was secondary. "We were place designers ... and the maps kind of fueled the story," Rand said. The plot evolved in tandem with the changing surround, developing new story details with each new building in the world.^[iv] The climactic ending with Atrus was a later on development in the game's story after Cyan realized they wanted to create a more than complicated ending. In hindsight, Robyn felt that Myst did not quite provoke the emotional reaction and ethical quandary they set out to create.^[21]

The game was created on Macintosh computers, principally the Macintosh Quadra 700, using the HyperCard software.^[xx] One of the first major discoveries Cyan had was how effective 3D rendering software was compared to hand-drawn figures that they had used on their previous titles, making it piece of cake to create the worlds of Myst. Additionally, 3D rendering allowed them to use color, something lacking from their previous titles. Robyn generally focused on rendering out the environs using StrataVision 3D, with some additional modeling in Macromedia MacroModel,^[20] while Rand would identify those images into HyperCard to link them upwardly and test the puzzle aspects.^[12] Overall, Myst contains two,500 frames, one for each possible expanse the player can explore.^[20] Final images for the game were and so edited and enhanced using Photoshop 1.0.^[twenty]

In addition to the indoor settings, Myst featured exterior environments for each Historic period. At first, the developers had no idea how they would actually create the physical terrain for the Ages.^[20] Eventually, they created grayscale heightmaps, extruding them to create changes in elevation. From this basic terrain, textures were painted onto a colormap which was wrapped around the landscapes. Objects such as trees were added to consummate the pattern.^[20] Rand noted that attention to detail immune Myst to deal with the limitations of CD-ROM drives and graphics, stating "A lot tin exist done with texture ... Like finding an interesting texture y'all can map into the tapestry on the wall, spending a petty extra time to really put the bumps on the tapestry, putting screws in things. These are the things yous don't necessarily observe, but if they weren't there, would flag to your subconscious that this is simulated."^[22]

When Cyan began evolution, developing believable characters was a major hurdle. The brothers were limited to i-manner communication with the player, and at any bespeak, a thespian could choose to walk away and "break the spell" of the game. Displaying video in the game was initially infeasible. Designing around the limits, the designers created the trap books, which were location-specific, one-way advice devices. The release of QuickTime halfway through development of the game solved the video issue.^[23]

The original HyperCard Macintosh version of Myst had each Age equally a unique HyperCard stack. Navigation was handled by the internal button organization and HyperTalk scripts, with paradigm and QuickTime moving picture display passed off to diverse plugins; essentially, Myst functions as a serial of split up multimedia slides linked together by commands.^[24] The main technical constraint that impacted Myst was slow CD-ROM drive read speeds—few consumers had annihilation faster than unmarried-speed drives, limiting the speed of streaming data off the disc.^[12] Cyan had to become to great lengths to make sure all the game elements loaded as quickly as possible.^[6] Images were stored as 8-bit PICT resources with custom color palettes and QuickTime still image pinch.^[xx] Animated elements such as movies and object animations were encoded as QuickTime movies with Cinepak compression;^[20] in full, at that place were more than 66 minutes of Quicktime animation.^[xx] This careful processing fabricated the finished graphics look like truecolor images despite their low bit depth; the stills were reduced in size from 500 KB to around 80 KB.^[20] The Millers tried to classify files on the concrete location of the spiral rail on the CD in a style as to reduce the seek time for images and movies that were closely related as to reduce any credible in-game delay as the player transitions from scene to scene.^[12]

Cyan playtested the game with two people sitting in front of the game, finding that they would converse with each other and vocalize their likes and dislikes compared to ane person silently playing. Rand and Robyn sabbatum behind the testers taking notes, and could brand on-the-fly changes and fixes. Cyan wanted the interface of the game to be invisible, and to craft a game that a wide audience would bask.^[25] Early on they had decided that there would be no inventory, enemies, or ways to die; eventually, they included a save system as a concession to the fact that it would take most players months to complete the game.^[four] Among the problems testers discovered with the story was that Myst initially had no inciting incident. In response, Cyan added a notation from Atrus to Catherine that clued players in to the existence of a chamber by the dock that played a message from Atrus and explained the game'due south objectives.^[26]

Audio [edit]

Chris Brandkamp produced well-nigh of the ambient and incidental sounds in the game. To make sure the sounds fit, Brandkamp had to look until the game'south visuals were placed in context.^[20] Sound effects were drawn from unlikely sources; the noise of a burn in a banality was created by driving slowly over stones in a driveway considering recordings of actual burn did not sound similar burn down burning.^[2] The chimes of a large clock belfry were false using a wrench, then transposed to a lower pitch. For the bubbles, which he recalled as "the well-nigh mean audio", was created from the bubbles in the toilet using various tubes blown.^[xx]

At first, Myst had no music, considering the Millers did not want music to interfere with the gameplay.^[20] Afterward a few tests, they realized that the background music did not adversely bear on the game, alluding to Super Mario Bros. In fact, "seemed to really help the mood of certain places that you were at in the game."^[20] Robyn Miller ended up composing 40 minutes of synthesized music that was used in the game and subsequently published as Myst: The Soundtrack.^[xx] Mixing and effects were done on an E-mu Proteus MPS synthesizer. The soundtrack was recorded over the course of ii weeks' evenings.^[27] Initially, Cyan released the soundtrack via a postal service-order service, just before the release of Myst 's sequel, Riven, Virgin Records caused the rights to release the soundtrack,^[28] and the CD was re-released on April 21, 1998.^[29]

Sales [edit]

Myst was an immense commercial success. Along with The 7th Invitee, it was widely regarded every bit a killer awarding that accelerated the sales of CD-ROM drives.^{[24] [thirty]} Rand Miller recalled thinking before the game's release that selling 100,000 copies would be "mind-blowing".^[12] Broderbund sold 200,000 copies of the Macintosh version in vi months afterward its September 1993 debut; such sales would have been enough to make it a best-selling PC game, and were extraordinary in the much smaller Macintosh market. Although requiring a CD drive further reduced the potential market place, the difficulty of software piracy for CD-ROM software before CD burners became popular also helped sales.^[31] The game sold 500,000 copies in its first year.^[32]

Broderbund began porting Myst to Windows immediately afterward the Macintosh version's debut, with a larger squad than the Miller brothers' grouping. It appeared in March 1994 on Windows and was even more successful.^[31] The game sold more than 500,000 copies in 1994.^[33] More than one one thousand thousand copies of the game were sold past spring 1995; even a strategy guide written in 3 weeks sold 300,000 copies. Unusual for a video game, sales connected to increase; 850,000 copies in the The states in 1996, and 870,000 in 1997. U.s.a. sales decreased to 540,000 copies in 1998, but the growing popularity in Europe of multimedia PCs increased sales there. Myst did non depend on poor quality full motion video different other early CD-ROM products, and then its graphics remained appealing long after release.^[31] By April 1998, Myst had sold 3.82 million units and earned $141.7 meg in acquirement in the U.s.a.. This led PC Data to declare it the country'south best-selling reckoner game for the menses betwixt January 1993 and April 1998.^[34] Myst sold more 6.3 meg units worldwide by 2000, including more four.3 million in the United States;^[35] the figures exclude bundled software sales with multimedia upgrade kits.^[31]

Myst was the bestselling PC game throughout the 1990s until The Sims exceeded its sales in 2002,^{[36] [37] [38]} and was the top-selling game in the US for a total of 52 months between March 1993 and Apr 1999.^[39]

Reception [edit]

Myst was generally praised by critics. Computer Gaming World bodacious its readers that the game was not similar other CD-ROM games that were "high on glitz and low on substance ... Myst is everything information technology'due south touted to exist and is, quite merely, the best [Macintosh] CD-ROM game". It praised the game'south open-world nature, lack of death, and "straightforward and uncomplicated" storyline. The magazine stated that the "mesmerizing" and "stunning" graphics and audio were "not the star of the evidence ... the substance of the game is equally equally practiced as its packaging", and concluded that Myst "is bound to fix a new standard".^[61] In April 1994, the magazine called information technology an "artistic masterwork".^[62] Jeff Koke reviewed Myst in Pyramid #eight (July/Baronial 1994), and stated that "It is the first risk game in which I left feeling as though I had visited a existent identify."^[63]

Wired and The New York Times were among the publications that pointed to Myst as prove that video games could, in fact, evolve into an art form.^[64] Entertainment Weekly reported that some players considered Myst 'southward "virtual morality" a religious experience.^[65] Aarhus University professor Søren Pold pointed to Myst as an excellent example of how stories can be told using objects rather than people.^[66] Laura Evenson, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, pointed to adult-oriented games similar Myst equally evidence the video game manufacture was emerging from its "boyish" phase.^[67]

GameSpot's Jeff Sengstack wrote that "Myst is an immersive experience that draws you in and won't allow you go."^[52] Writing about Myst 's reception, Greg M. Smith noted that Myst had become a hit and was regarded as incredibly immersive despite most closely resembling "the hoary technology of the slideshow (with accompanying music and effects)".^[iii] Smith ended that "Myst 'southward primary brilliance lies in the way it provides narrative justification for the very things that are most annoying" nearly the technological constraints imposed on the game;^[3] for instance, Macworld praised Myst 's designers for overcoming the occasionally debilitating slowness of CD drives to deliver a consequent experience throughout the game.^[68] The publication went on to declare Myst the best game of 1994, stating that Myst removed the "most abrasive parts of risk games—vocabularies that [yous] don't sympathize, people you can't talk to, wrong moves that get you lot killed and make you first over. Y'all try to unravel the enigma of the isle by exploring the island, but there'southward no time pressure level to distract you, no capricious punishments put in your way".^[69]

Some aspects of the game still received criticism. Several publications did non agree with the positive reception of the story. Jeremy Parish of 1UP.com noted that while its lack of interaction and continual plot suited the game, Myst 's helped terminate the adventure game genre.^[24] Border stated the chief flaw with the game was that the game engine was nowhere most equally sophisticated equally the graphics.^[48] Heidi Fournier of Take a chance Gamers noted a few critics complained near the difficulty and lack of context of the puzzles, while others believed these elements added to the gameplay.^[47] (The game is and then difficult that Broderbund included a blank pad of paper for taking notes. The Miller brothers estimate that half or less of players left the starting island.^[31]) Similarly, critics were carve up on whether the lack of a plot the thespian could actually change was a skilful or bad element.^[70] In 1996 Next Generation called Myst "gaming'due south bleakest hour", saying the static graphics and purely trial-and-fault puzzles epitomized poor game design. The magazine said its commercial success, which they owed chiefly to its popularity amidst non-gamers every bit a CD-ROM showcase, had led to many other games emulating its negative aspects.^[71] In a 2000 retrospective review, IGN declared that Myst had not anile well and that playing information technology "was like watching hit Goggle box shows from the 70s. 'People watched that?,' you lot wonder in horror."^[30]

Myst was named Best Adventure/Fantasy Part-Playing Game at the 1994 Codie awards,^[72] and received an honorable mention in Electronic Entertainment 's 1993 "Breakthrough Game" category, which ultimately went to The 7th Guest. That mag's editors wrote, "Ane of the best-looking, best-sounding games ever, the Macintosh version of Myst sets new standards for the effective apply of CD-ROM."^[73] Myst was also a runner-upwardly for Computer Gaming World 'south 1993 "Take a chance Game of the Year" award, simply lost to Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers and Twenty-four hours of the Tentacle (tie).^[74] In 1996, the magazine ranked Myst 11th on its listing of the nigh innovative computer games.^[75]

Reviews for the game's console ports generally reflected each critic's attitude towards the original game, as critics agreed that the ports for 3DO,^{[49] [54] [76]} Saturn,^{[59] [56] [77]} and PlayStation^{[60] [55] [78]} are about identical to the PC original. For example, Sushi-10 of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the 3DO version a 5 out of ten, remarking "The graphics and sounds are decent but the game never really appealed to me on the PC", while his co-reviewer Danyon Carpenter gave it a vii out of ten and assessed that "This game was all the rage when it debuted on the PC, and that excitement should follow through on the 3DO."^[49] In one of the more than enthusiastic reviews for Myst, GamePro gave the 3DO version a perfect v out of 5 in all four categories (graphics, sound, control, and funfactor), last, "Beautiful and enchanting, Myst will thrill you and make you think at the aforementioned time."^[76] The Jaguar CD version was largely ignored by reviewers, merely GamePro commented that apart from the Jaguar CD's lack of a mouse peripheral and occasionally longer load times, this version too is identical to the PC original.^[79]

Yet, the 3DS version received negative reviews fifty-fifty from critics who felt that Myst 'due south popularity was merited, citing graphics and sound well below the 3DS's capabilities and the use of bad-mannered circle pad controls in lieu of the 3DS'southward touchscreen.^{[57] [58]}

Legacy [edit]

Myst 'southward achievements led to a number of games which sought to copy its success, referred to every bit "Myst clones".^[24] Its success baffled some, who wondered how a game that was seen as "little more than than 'an interactive slide show'" turned out to be a hit.^{[80] [81]} As early on as Dec 1994, Newsweek compared Myst to "an art film, destined to assemble disquisitional acclaim and then dust on the shelves".^[31]

Some developers of adventure games concurrent to Myst 'southward release were critical of its success, due to the number of subsequent video games that copied Myst 's mode compared to traditional adventure games. These games diluted the market place with poorly-received clones and were perceived every bit contributing to the reject of the genre. Others criticized Myst as the "ultimate anti-arcade game", as information technology was much more than relaxed and casual than anything that was released since 1972, equally "there were no lives, no dying, no score, and no fourth dimension limit. No physical agility or reflexes were required. The only pressure was that which you imposed upon yourself to solve the puzzles and complete the storyline."^[81] However, Myst, along with other published works using the CD-ROM format, had created a new way of thinking almost presentation in video games due to the nature of the CD-ROM: whereas most games before could be viewed every bit "games of emergence", in which game elements combined in novel and surprising means to the player, Myst demonstrated one of the first "games of progression" where the player is guided through predefined sets of encounters. This helped to provide alternative experiences atypical of usual video games, and later helped to validate the arthouse approach used in many indie video games developed in the 2000s.^[82]

Myst 's success led to several sequels. Riven was released in 1997 and continues Myst 's storyline, with Atrus asking the role player to help him rescue his wife Catherine. Presto Studios and Ubisoft developed and published Myst Iii: Exile in 2001,^{[83] [84]} Myst IV: Revelation was adult and published entirely by Ubisoft and released in 2004.^[85] The latest game in the franchise is Myst V: End of Ages, developed by Cyan Worlds and released in 2005.^[86] In add-on to the principal games, Cyan developed Uru: Ages Beyond Myst.^[87] The multiplayer component of Uru was initially canceled, only GameTap eventually revived it every bit Myst Online: Uru Live.^[88] After Uru Live was cancelled, the game was released as an open up source title.^[89] The Miller brothers collaborated with David Wingrove to produce several novels based on the Myst universe, which were published past Hyperion. The novels, entitled Myst: The Volume of Atrus, Myst: The Book of Ti'ana, and Myst: The Volume of D'ni, fill in the games' backstory and were packaged together equally The Myst Reader. Past 2003, the Myst franchise had sold over twelve million copies worldwide,^[90] with Myst representing more than than vi 1000000 copies in the figure.^[91]

Myst became a cultural touchstone of the solar day; the game was so pop the Miller brothers appeared in advertisements for The Gap.^[92] Player Matt Damon wanted The Bourne Conspiracy video game to be a puzzle game like Myst, refusing to lend his voice talent to the game when it was turned into a shooter instead.^[93] Myst has also been used for educational and scientific purposes; Becta recognized a principal school teacher, Tim Rylands, who had fabricated literacy gains using Myst as a instruction tool,^[94] and researchers have used the game for studies examining the result of video games on aggression.^[95] A parody computer game, Pyst, was released in 1996; the game is a satirical free roam of Myst island which had been evidently vandalized by frustrated visitors.^[96] Starring John Goodman, the parody cost far more to develop than the original.^[31] Myst was added to the collection of video games of the Museum of Mod Fine art in 2013, where it is displayed equally a video presentation.^[97]

In retrospective, Myst is considered to be a precursor to casual games that gained popularity with browser platforms and mobile devices which typically practice non require players to human action quickly, also every bit a preliminary instance of a walking simulator that allow players to explore and discover the game's narrative at their own stride.^[81] Cyan'due south sequels to Myst also indirectly served to popularize escape the room games, which provide similar puzzle-solving experiences but in a much more than confined space.^[98]

Disney approached Cyan Worlds about amalgam a theme park inspired by Myst, which included scouting an island expanse within Disney'south Florida properties that Rand Miller felt was perfect for the Myst setting.^[17] The goggle box streaming service Hulu had obtained the rights to create a boob tube series effectually Myst in May 2015. The series would explore the origin of the main island featured in Myst. The Hulu series was to be produced past Legendary Television, which had acquired the television set rights from Cyan for the series in late 2014. The bear witness was to have been produced by Matt Tolmach and written past Evan Daugherty.^[99] Rand Miller stated in a September 2022 interview that with the show, "we're further along now than we've been in a long time", but timelines remain uncertain.^[17]

In June 2019, Village Roadshow Pictures announced they had caused the rights to make Myst films, television programs, and other programming, leaving the fate of the Legendary Goggle box vehicle in doubt.^[100] Ashley Edward Miller was announced as the showrunner and writer for the show's pilot.^[101]

Re-releases and ports [edit]

Myst 's success led to the game existence ported to multiple platforms, including the Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Android, iPhone, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Jaguar CD, AmigaOS, CD-i, and 3DO consoles. At that place was also a version developed and fifty-fifty previewed for the Sega CD, only it was never released by Sunsoft.^{[102] [103]}

PC remakes [edit]

Myst—the dock from the starting position on Myst Island as a pre-rendered however from the original game (1993, top)
realMyst—the same scene rendered in real-time (2000, eye)
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition 2.0—the scene again (2015, lesser)

Myst: Masterpiece Edition was an updated version of the original Myst, released in May 2000. Information technology featured several improvements over the original game's multimedia: the images were re-rendered in 24-bit truecolor instead of the original Myst 's 256 colors (eight-scrap); the score was re-mastered, and sound effects were enhanced.^[104]

realMyst: Interactive 3D Edition was a remake of Myst released in Nov 2000 for Windows PCs, and in January 2002 for Mac. Unlike Myst and the Masterpiece Edition, the gameplay of realMyst featured free-roaming, real-time 3D graphics instead of signal-and-click pre-rendered stills.^[105] Weather effects like thunderstorms, sunsets, and sunrises were added to the Ages, and minor additions were made to proceed the game in sync with the story of the Myst novels and sequels. The game also added a new sixth Age called Rime, which is featured in an extended ending, too as the addition of Ti'ana's grave on Myst island.^{[105] [106] [107]} realMyst was developed by Cyan, Inc. and Sunsoft, and published past Ubisoft. While the new interactivity of the game was praised, realMyst ran poorly on most computers of the fourth dimension.^[108] Robyn Miller expressed frustration with realMyst, maxim: "I only saw realMyst after information technology was released. Every bit a remake, information technology was a lapse of reason and directionless; overt merchandising of the original Myst. It definitely wasn't how nosotros originally envisioned Myst, equally was promoted."^{[105] [109]}

Carla Harker reviewed the PC version of the game for Next Generation, rating information technology one star out of five, and stated that "With only graphics to stand up on, realMYST is cute, merely there's no real substance here."^[110]

realMyst: Masterpiece Edition, a visually enhanced revision running on the Unity engine that also includes the graphics of the original Myst game, was released on Windows and macOS on February vii, 2014.^[111] The remake was updated to version two.0 on January 28, 2015, receiving a pregnant graphical overhaul in which several bugs were stock-still and the detail of many models and textures was upgraded.^[112]

Panel and handhelds [edit]

On May eighteen, 2012, the PlayStation Network released a port for Myst in the form of a PSone classic for the PlayStation 3 and PSP.^[113]

In Nov 2005, Midway Games announced that they would exist developing a remake of Myst for the PlayStation Portable. The remake would include additional content that was non featured in the original Myst, including the Rime age that was earlier seen in realMyst.^[114] The game was released in Japan and Europe in 2006, and the US version was released in 2008.^[115]

A version of Myst for the Nintendo DS was as well released in December 2007. The version features re-mastered video and sound, using source code specifically re-written for the Nintendo DS. The remake features Rime as a playable Age, with an all-new graphics set.^[116] This version of the game was released in Europe on December 7, 2007, courtesy of Midway. Information technology was released in North America on May thirteen, 2008, originally published by Navarre and later reissued by Tempest Metropolis Games. The version was heavily panned by the gaming press, with an aggregate score of 43/100 on Metacritic.^[117] This version was over again later re-released for Nintendo 3DS, published past Funbox Media in Europe, and Maximum Family Games in North America and Australia. The game later appeared in digital format via the Nintendo eShop in North America on November 15, 2012,^[118] and in Europe on September 5, 2013.^[119]

In Feb 2005, Cyan and Mean Hamster Software released Myst for the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform;^[120] Riven was ported shortly after.^[121] In August 2008, Cyan announced that the company was developing a version of Myst for Apple's iOS.^[122] The game was made bachelor to download from the iTunes App Store on May 2, 2009.^[123] The original download size was 727 MB, which was considered very large by iPhone standards.^[124] An updated version of realMyst was released for iPad 2 and above, with improved graphics over the original PC release, on June 14, 2012.^[125] A version for Android devices based on the realMyst version was released on Jan 26, 2017, produced and published past Noodlecake, and a similar port for Riven was released on April 26, 2017.^{[126] [127]}

realMyst: Masterpiece Edition was released for the Nintendo Switch on May 21, 2020.^{[128] [129]}

3D remake for virtual reality and other platforms [edit]

Cyan appear a new remake of Myst for loftier-definition screens and virtual reality, with the game'southward worlds fully created in free-roam 3D environments, using Unreal Engine four, along with features like puzzle randomization, in September 2020.^{[130] [131]} Myst for the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest two was released on December 10, 2020.^[132]

The VR version only adapted for "flatscreen" monitors was released on August 26, 2021, for Windows, macOS, Xbox Series 10/Due south and Xbox One.^{[133] [134] [135]}

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