Cyan Worlds has introduced that it’s remaking the 1997 PC sport Riven: The Sequel to Myst. The indie studio wrote in a weblog publish on Monday that the sport is being remade due to a grassroots followers venture referred to as The Starry Expanse Challenge.
Riven is a puzzle journey sport through which Atrus employs the assistance of the Stranger and their potential to hyperlink books to completely different worlds often called “Ages” to rescue his spouse from his father, Gehn. The Starry Expanse Challenge, which was based in 2009, is comprised of a staff of devoted followers who took the initiative to undertake a devoted recreation of Riven from scratch, matching the digital camera and texture with these of the picture renders from the unique sport in a totally 3D surroundings. Nevertheless, the staff stopped the venture when Cyan started its official efforts to remake the sport, with each events reaching an settlement for the studio to make use of elements of the fan venture for reference.
“We spoke confidentially with the Starry Expanse staff a few years in the past concerning the thrilling information that Cyan lastly had the assets to sort out remaking Riven,” Cyan mentioned. “Collectively, we reached an settlement which allowed us to reference core items of their efforts to jump-start our improvement. They subsequently ceased improvement on The Starry Expanse Project, as our official efforts to remake Riven started.”
Though The Starry Expanse Challenge dissipated after serving to kick off the Riven remake, Cyan mentioned it has nonetheless saved in contact with many of the members behind it. It even went as far as to rent certainly one of them to work on the official remake.
Cyan mentioned on its FAQ web page that the remake of Riven won’t be an replace to the unique sport. The listing of platforms it is going to be made for is unknown.
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