Citation :Richard "RAWA" Watson
Thanks for all the comments, especially the memories of your Myst/Riven experiences. Those really do mean a great deal to us.

Yes, we are reading every comment and doing what we can with the feedback you're all giving. Rand is also answering as many of the questions that are sent directly to "the project creator" as he can behind the scenes, though all that activity doesn't show anything here.

We are also in "crunch-mode" for our current project, so we're spread even thinner than we normally are. As always, we do the best we can with what we have.

Thanks for your continued patience and support.

Citation :so we're spread even thinner than we normally are

Eric A. Anderson a écrit :Since everyone here seems to be telling their Myst-related tales of yore.... here’s one of mine...
In early 2000, I was doing commercial work in Minneapolis and not really enjoying it. Work was hit and miss, and I really wanted to make the move into games... or at least something less corporate. I’d caught wind of a new studio in the area that was trying to make the break into “online gaming and/or shopping”, which was still fairly new territory at the time. I applied, and got called in for an interview. I forget the specifics of the project (something to do with an online mall?), but I distinctly remember that the company had the lofty goal of making “a world that looked as good as Myst or Riven... except instead of pre-rendered, it would be realtime 3D”. Stop and remember for a second what was going on in gaming in 2000... this was pre-Xbox... pre-Halo... The first NVidia GeForce cards had just barely come out... 3D PC gaming was still in its infancy. When they told me of their grand plans, I almost laughed at them. Myst in realtime? These people were crazy. I didn’t take the job, and I think the company actually folded less than a year later. No one wanted to fund their insane project.
That same summer, I ended up getting an interview at a company I’d shot an application to months prior, on a whim. Some rinky-dink outfit in the backwoods of Washington state that had made some successful adventure games a few years before. They walked me into their conference room and sat me down and showed me the new game they were working on. I arrived inside a small, dusty hut, lit by lantern-light. Through the windows, out in the darkness, I could see snow, gently falling. I stepped outside - on to a scaffold catwalk - and found myself not under the night sky... but inside of a massive interior space, filled with... fungus? And not snow, but... spores? I moved toward the opening of this cave, where I could see sunlight.... and was surrounded by gigantic towering mushrooms, and machines, and miracles. On the heels of the previous interview, it was almost comical. Not only was this sort of thing possible... these crazy people were already doing it. And then they asked me if I wanted to build worlds, too. And I did. So we did. So many worlds.
Thanks again for all your support, guys. This means more to all of us than you can possibly imagine. And I can’t wait to bring you along this time. Let’s go exploring.

(26-10-2013, 20:30)Scribe a écrit : Moi aussi, mais l'Oculus Rift a plus de chances de faire donner les gens qu'un jeu plus long, "stratégiquement" parlant je trouve ça pertinent de leur part.