As you may be aware, Cyan’s situation has not improved on the “resources” front. We continue to work on small projects (including Myst for the iPhone/iPod Touch), and it looks like we will only be able to concentrate on projects that are fully funded for the foreseeable future.
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So, Cyan has decided to give make MystOnline available to the fans by releasing the source code for the servers, client and tools for MystOnline as an open source project. We will also host a data server with the data for MystOnline. MORE is still possible but only with the help from fans.
To be honest, I’ve never spent a lot of time playing Myst but the content and way it was done were superb.
I’d be interested in finding a group of people who wanted to do something with this. We’d need artists, 3D designers and a whole slew of other people.
But kinda exciting, eh?
I did play MYST for a while and looked over shoulders while RIVEN was being played. I never got around to even looking at URU though. I am heartened by the news they’re making Myst for iPhone though.
I have an eyebrow raised in spock-esque interest…
I want to see what the possibilities are here. If it’s just running an unauthorised shard, then we may be uninterested. But if it’s providing a framework so that local games development can easily demonstrate their talent with a MMORPG game engine then I think there’s some fun stuff that can be done there.