Something new from Cyan Worldz...

[CrisGer]

A life of pennance and working with the Myst series and Cyan...and a heads up with no details...something is coming from Cyan this month, no idea what, doubt it is a Myst contiuation as Rand said no more ...a while ago.

I just keep hoping sometime they will manage to get SOMETHING to happen in a game other than family problems. Lets hope and i do like some parts of their games a lot. So this is my first post here, sorry to not have more but...hey it is a start

 

[Crooked Bee]

Hm, a Kickstarter maybe?

In any case, I'm highly skeptical of Cyan at this point anyway. If it's a KS, then need to show something good.

 

[trustno1code]

To expand a bit on that, Rand confirmed they were looking into doing a Kickstarter over a year ago:

Q: With the recent success of the Double-Fine Kickstarter (among others), has Cyan thought about trying their hand a crowd-funding a project?
A: We have. We've gotten so much feedback from fans and friends encouraging us to do it. We've really got only two issues…
• First - what product to propose (it's between two - one Myst related and one completely new ...
• Second - we need to get enough money from RealMyst to fund a good Kickstarter proposal with some great artwork and a convincing video.

And in a recent "Cavecon" Q&A stream (from July, here's an audio recording) he mentioned it again, revealing it's not going to be Myst related, at least not directly.

We're definitely a little ways down the road on trying to plan the Kickstarter thing. We have ultimately decided that it's something new (...) that hopefully echoes back to the same feeling we provided when people landed on the dock in Myst for the first time. We're going for the same feeling and the same kind of amazing desire to find out 'where I am now', 'why I'm here', 'what went on here', but maybe nothing to do with Myst in particular.

It's taking them quite a while (understandably I guess in light of their current size/situation), kinda like Bill Tiller who started hinting a year before his project actually came to be.
Hopefully Cyan's venture will be more successful.

Also, on their "jobs" page:

Even though we aren’t currently hiring, we have a few irons in the fire that we hope will allow us to build something new. If you are interested in being part of a possible something new here at Cyan, and you are a particularly skilled 3D Graphic Artist (3DS Max) or Programmer (C++, C#) (Unity and/or Unreal experience is a plus) you may want to put together a portfolio and/or resumé and send it our way. We’re looking for quality over quantity, honesty over hype, and creativity over formality. And include in your email answers to two questions that will give us deep insight into your psyche – “What do you do in your spare time?” & “What book, movie, or TV show really floats your boat, and why?”

Please don’t call regarding employment, or we promise we will go “Gehn” on you.

That might be about the RealMyst re-release though, from which the screen of Channelwood they've posted lately on social media thingamajigs likely comes from:

 

[iqzulk]

I wonder if Robyn will be involved (no Robyn = no deal). He DID (via twitter) hint upon the possibility of some "sandbox-style" and completely Myst-unrelated game some time into the future, but, from what I understand, he still has his hands full with that Augustus Gladstone movie. So, that's kinda questionable.

Also, I wonder what Richard Vander Wende is doing now - and whether there is any chance of him taking part in creating another game ever again.

Spoiler

Also, not sure why he seems to be omitted from "John Carter" credits.

Also2, would really love to visit some ages akin to Catherine's/Katran's ages (and I'm NOT talking about Ubi's Serenia - nope, doesn't exist). That episode from "Book of Atrus" was absolutely mindblowing.