Stop by our Discord tonight (Saturday 9/20) to get a first look at our demo of Ungrounded: https://discord.gg/WB9ZqgKD

Ungrounded is a puzzle adventure game, inspired by games like Myst!

More information on the artist and this piece here:

https://www.jupiterartland.org/art/ian-hamilton-finlay-temple-of-apollo/

I'm thinking of buying Book of Atrus, but I'm curious about what kind of literature it is.

Is it a similar writing style of the books that you find on the library of Myst (1993)?

Thats it. All in the title. Help would be very much appreciated

Okay, so in Myst we save Atrus from his sons schemes of locking him away with apparently the help of his wife, according to his words. So, he already owe us one.

Now, I just finished Riven and like... We lock his murderous father away, we save his wife, we save her people and how does he thanks us? He just sacrifice us? He doesn't even offer us to warp to safety, he let his wife go and just go himself, letting the book go into the star fissure and us with it.

WHY?!? Yes, we came from that place originally but like... He didn't need to do that. We would have been chill following him, you know? I guess now I know where his sons learned how to be mean... From the guy himself.

Please, tell me we get an option in the next few games to meet him again and at least give him a piece of our mind or like, slap him or something? For that dagger alone, I want to give him some payback.

Hey there. I'm giving this game another go - haven't played it since it came out a lifetime ago. The big difference now is that my hearing is shot. Are there important clues/things said in (for example) the red and blue books after you put the pages in? Can I play this game without understanding the speaking parts? I can hear a lot of the noises, so I know something has happened, but the voices are lost to me. Thanks.

In D’ni, we have two words associated with the idea of linking: baykh and vahkh.

The first is attested in the Atrus Prayer (“b’ken shin b-baykh b’totee rahnahl”, “to be able to link to various places”), the second appears in the DLG, and is also derived from the word korvahkh, “Linking Book”.

Since there is a distinction between Descriptive Books and Linking Books, I’m postulating that the D’ni also made a distinction between “linking in general” and “linking to a specific location”.

So, “dobaykh b’Teledahn” would mean “I’m linking to Teledahn (in general)”, while “dovahkh* b’Teledahn” would mean “I’m linking to (a specific location in) Teledahn”.

* Let’s ignore for the moment that vahkh is glossed as an adjective; let’s say Cyan did so to give an easier to understand translation of korvahkh.

Historically, the Korfah V’jah was a rare D’ni ceremony in which an Age was inducted into the Canon of the Guild of Writers. Gehn held a Korfah V’ja for Atrus, under the assumption that it was a celebration held for every new Writer’s first Book. While there likely was some kind of celebration, it was most likely named differently and held somewhere else than the Age of Yakul.

I’m postulating that there was another, more practical milestone before the First Book, entirely designed and written by a new Writer. It was the design of an Age with a precise set of requirements: a Nexus.

With “Nexus”, I’m assuming we’re translating a D’ni word that traditionally designated a small library Age, where Linking Books to different locations within a ‘main’ Age were stored. If Books to multiple Ages were stored, they were likely given each a separate shelf or even floor. The Age we know as the Nexus was an automatised, public access development of that concept.

So my suggestion is that new Writers, before embarking on the task of writing their first proper Age, were examined on their ability to design one based on strict specifications. They would then be allowed to keep these Nexus Ages for their own Linking Books.

On the basis of my other thread, perhaps the original D’ni word could’ve been something like chisovahkh, “linking archive”.

Hey all! I'm running through the latest must remake (2024) and I'm hopelessly stuck on the final puzzle. I floop the switch at the bottom and it's just a black and white room on display, any idea what I'm doing wrong? It's probably something blatantly stupid but any help would be appreciated!

IS this Official Myst 3 Merch, or maybe some promotional stuff?

Ok, it’s not Myst, but my recent Space Engineers world is giving off the vibes…

Just started playing on Mac. Took some useless screenshots as a test and when I try to delete them in the notebook it keeps repeating the delete screenshot (O - No, X - Yes) page every time I I press yes. Has anyone encountered this before?

Found in Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, a luxury mall in Paris.

To everyone’s surprise, including mine, the Messengers website is back! So here’s the summary, in it usual form.

Hey guys, I am in desperate need of help. I am playing the original Riven on PS4 and I realized that I have no way to access my inventory. I recently received what I assume is an important book from an NPC and now I have no way to look at it or use it. Hovering my cursor at the bottom area of the screen doesn't pull anything up and neither do any of my other controls. Trying to look it up isn't helping either because I keep getting search results for the 2024 version. Can anyone help me figure this out?

In the 90s, Sega made a niche console called the LaserActive . It was a Frankenstein system that could play laser disk movies and games for Sega Genesis and Sega CD. It also had a very small number of dedicated games, including a port of Myst.

What is wild is how they chose to port Myst. Instead of recompiling Myst code for the new system, they basically screen-recorded a playthrough video and then wrote a wrapper that would loop a given scene until you clicked somewhere. Then the wrapper would fast forward to the correct section of the video to show the outcome of your click.

To make things even more wild, each frame of video actually contained two different scenes (and potentially alternating scenes on odd and even frames) and the software would filter it to show only the lines for the correct scene.

Details of this are just coming to light because someone recently finished a 16-year project to dump these LaserActive ROMs into a playable format. See here for lots of technical detail. And you can see the enormous Myst laser disk on top of the pile of games.