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Myst Online: Uru Live is an open source massively multiplayer online adventure game developed by Cyan Worlds. The game is the multiplayer component to the 2003 video game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst . Like Uru , Myst Online takes place in 2000s New Mexico , where an ancient civilization known as the D'ni once thrived.
CyanWorlds.com Engine (formerly Plasma) is a real-time 3D game engine originally called Headspin and developed by Headspin Technologies in 1997 and later by Cyan Worlds (Cyan purchased the engine as part of the acquisition of Headspin) to power the next generation of real time 3D Myst series games such as URU: Complete Chronicles and Myst V: End of Ages.
Overall, the Myst series has been critically and commercially successful. Rand and Robyn Miller were expecting Myst to perform as well as previous Cyan titles, making enough money to fund the next project. [57] Instead, Myst sold more than six million units, becoming the top-selling PC game of all time until The Sims surpassed Myst sales in ...
Cyan, Inc., also known as Cyan Worlds, Inc., is an American video game developer and publisher based in Mead, Washington.Founded as Cyan Productions by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller in 1987, the company created the Myst series.
The multiplayer component of Uru was initially canceled, but GameTap eventually revived it as Myst Online: Uru Live. [137] After Uru Live was cancelled, the game was released as an open source title. [138] The Miller brothers collaborated with David Wingrove to produce several novels based on the Myst universe, which were published by Hyperion.
Uru was officially announced as Myst Online, before being renamed Uru in early 2003. [16] Myst co-creator Rand Miller released a statement along with an outline of the game: Uru is a revolutionary adventure game that takes the best qualities of the Myst franchise and makes them even better. The single-player experience will eclipse the beauty ...
Myst or Riven held the number one and two spots on the PC Data sales charts from June 1997 until January 1998. [33] By April, Riven had sold over 1 million units and earned $46.2 million in revenue domestically, which led PC Data to declare it the fifth-best-selling computer game in the United States between January 1993 and April 1998. [ 34 ]
Myst IV: Revelation is a 2004 adventure video game, the fourth installment in the Myst series, developed and published by Ubisoft. Like Myst III: Exile, Revelation combines pre-rendered graphics with digital video, but also features real-time 3D effects for added realism. The plot of Revelation follows up on plot details from the original Myst.