Hannah Gamiel, development director at Cyan, said the team’s goal was to recapture the feeling of the original game for franchise fans while also crafting something new. While past upgrades of the title – which became an instant sensation and prompted multiple sequels with its at-the-time photorealistic visuals, deep storytelling and brainbending puzzles – have included modifiers to the name, such as 2000’s “realMyst,” the team at Cyan was interested in making a game that feels like the first time players plopped the CD-ROM into their drive. The decision to call the remaster simply “Myst” is an intentional one, Miller said.
It makes me feel like I’m in a place,” said Miller, who along with brother, Robyn, created Cyan Worlds in 1987. While the new version will be playable on conventional computer monitors and TVs, it’s the immersive headset that breathes new life into an old classic, Miller said. Miller calls Thursday’s release the “definitive version” of the video game that first released in 1993. “I just stand there, sometimes, and stand around and look at things, just because I’m amazed.” The release, available for $30 for PC, MacOS and Xbox game consoles, marks the first time many fans of the original game and newcomers alike will be able to experience the game in virtual reality, all in an upgraded-graphics engine.
to international fame nearly 30 years ago.
It’s one of the visual flourishes present in Mead-based developer Cyan World’s most recent revisit to the mysterious-island world that launched Rand Miller and Co. Its body bulges briefly, and after a couple of skips, the amphibian splashes into the marsh below. Walking along a bridge of wooden planks toward a water puzzle in the new version of “Myst” that releases Thursday, you may look down and notice a friendly frog hopping at your feet.
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