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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. Myst became the best-selling PC game ever made when it was released in 1993, and remained so for several years ...
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.
Myst V: End of Ages is a 2005 adventure video game, the fifth installment in the Myst series. The game was developed by Cyan Worlds, published by Ubisoft, and released for Macintosh and Windows PC platforms in September 2005.
Firmament received a score of 69 on Metacritic, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [6]PC Gamer calls Firmament a "graphically gorgeous descendant of Myst, paradoxically limited by its own ambitions", praising the world design, but feeling the game lacked challenge compared to other puzzle games. [7]
On February 8, 2010, Cyan Worlds announced the return of Myst Online under the new title Myst Online: URU Live Again. The game is now being advertised as entirely free to play. [ 19 ] In August 2020, fan-led development of the game led to the release of the first fan-created Ages.
Developed by Cyan Worlds, it was initially published by Red Orb Entertainment, a division of Broderbund. Riven was distributed on five compact discs and released for Mac and Windows personal computers on October 31, 1997, in North America; it was later released on a single DVD-ROM in 1998. [7] Riven was also ported to several other platforms.
Cyan Worlds Windows, Mac OS X: Cyan returned to develop Myst V: End of Ages, billed as the final game in the series. [15] As with Uru, End of Ages featured graphics rendered in real time, allowing uninhibited player movement. Three control methods were offered to players, similar to those respectively used in Myst, Exile and Uru. [16]
Cyan artist Chuck Carter designed all of the color graphics in about three months using StrataVision 3D. In 2007, the game was released on GameTap. [10] As of February 2011, the game is available from GOG.com, [11] iTunes, [12] and as part of the "Cyan Complete Pack" on Steam. [13]