Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:06 pm Posts: 663 Location: Houston, Texas
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The Guild of Writers is available as a group that creates Uru content that can be played in Uru: Complete Chronicles and that we will (hopefully) soon be able to play in Open Source Uru.
The GoW creates content for Uru, which includes storywriting, programming, 3d and texture art, and sound design/music.
The Guild of Maintainers tests that content and submits bug reports.
The Guild of Messengers relays news through the fanbase.
The Guild of Cartographers makes maps of the worlds in the game.
The Guild of Greeters welcomes new players to the Myst/Uru series and helps people who are stuck on puzzles.
Many Uru fans are members of one or more of these guilds.
As your research has shown, there are a bunch of Myst games:
-Myst (and RealMyst, the realtime 3d version of the first Myst)
-Riven: The Sequel to Myst
-Myst 3: Exile
-Myst IV: Revelation
-Myst V: End of Ages
Also Uru, which is a spinoff of the Myst series and designed as a multiplayer rather than singleplayer game - though at present time, only the singleplayer version Uru: Complete Chronicles is available.
The MMO form of Uru has had a rocky history - It first appeared as Uru Live Prologue with Ubisoft, then Until Uru (a fan-run version) then Myst Online: Uru Live with Gametap. Finally that was cancelled, and now Cyan Worlds has plans to release Uru as open source freeware, as it has not proved financially successful in any previous form. (Even though it's a great game.)
This is a community of people who love the Myst series and Uru, and we're here hoping that we'll get Uru as an open source game so we (the fans) can play it online and add our own content and features to it, and keep Uru alive and growing.
_________________ Matthew L. Hornbostel, creator of Panoramic Worlds, a Myst fansite, and various other stuff.
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