Where the Worlds of Cyan Take Us (Myst, Riven and Firmament)
207Cyan Worlds is one of my all time favourite game devs. I have talked about their games for years now and I am always on board for when they have a new title to offer the world. 2023 saw the release of Firmament, a game that is something of a mixed bag but leave it to Cyan to leave me with more on my mind than when I hit "New Game". Firmament is an interesting game, not only on it's own but also in the deeper context of Cyan's other games. Long story short, I'm talking about atmospheric puzzle games again, surprising no one.
Review Code for Firmament Provided by Cyan Worlds, Inc.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Part I Introduction
00:05:54 Part II A (spoiler free) Review of Firmament
00:17:15 Part III Minds Removed in Space and Time
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Music:
Selections from the Myst soundtrack by Robyn Miller
Selections from the Riven Soundtrack by Robyn Miller
Selections from the Obduction Soundtrack by Robyn Miller
Selections from the Firmament Soundtrack by Maclaine Diemer
Selections from the Outer Wilds Soundtrack by Andrew Prahlow
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CC Attributions:
Rand and Robyn Miller, creators of the "Myst" franchise, at a question and answer panel at Mysterium 2014
By Jeff Hitchcock - https://www.flickr.com/photos/arbron/14871044310/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87143961
Robyn Miller, co-creator of the video game series "Myst", at GDC 2021
By Paris Buttfield-Addison - https://flickr.com/photos/parisba/8604248684/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89259266
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Works Cited:
Carroll, Jon. "Guerrillas in the Myst" 1994. Wired Magazine, Conde Nast Publications. Retrieved August 2023. https://www.wired.com/1994/08/myst/
Robyn Miller - "Classic Games Postmortem: Myst". GDC Vault. Retrieved August 2023 https://gdcvault.com/play/1018048/Classic-Game-Postmortem
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