So what is going on? Some of you may ask. Well after 3 years of no updates I have gone ahead and updated the site in the hopes that I can get it to a point where I don’t have to update it anymore.
Why is this? Well over the years my interest in Myst/Uru etc has dispersed, especially in the last 6 months. DJC and I have always had a love hate relationship and my wife won’t allow me to get rid of the site completely. So I have cut a lot of the fat out of the site, removed a lot of the incomplete sections and am leaving up just the core aspects (game info, storylines, journals etc).
I’ve also changed the news section to just pull from the Guild of Messengers’ RSS feed to save some trouble.
I know the new site isn’t flashy, and is rather basic, but I’m afraid I just don’t have the time, interest or passion I once had for Myst/Uru stuff.
- Keith “Tweek” Lord (01/08/10)
Guild of Messengers - Delivering Uru News to the Community
To support a corps of volunteer journalists disseminating information within the Myst/Uru community.
The Guild of Messengers website was taken down earlier today for some major design updates. Design changes were first suggested by Lyrositor who has worked with Leonardo on implementing the new look, as well as some behind-the-scenes upgrades. Everything is designed to make navigation easier and to give the website a more organized look. Thanks to Diafero, we can also import the latest news on fan Ages. The anti-spam filter has also been improved. The MOULa status bar has been updated and in addition a set of icons that change with the numbers of CAVCON status has been added to the site.
We hope everyone enjoys the new look and feel of the site!
Shorah everyone! As always, the All Guilds Meeting was held this month in Kirel, with Leonardo returning to moderate, and this one certainly did not disappoint. If you couldn't make it (like myself for a vast majority of it), we have the usual raw and cleansed chatlogs to help you catch up.
A little summary for you:
Annabelle's Marker Quests
Starting things off was regular presenter Annabelle (using her Skydiver avatar), who is celebrating two years since she started making her quests. Her seventh and final release, The Eders, contains games for Gira, Kemo, Delin and Tsogal and will be released on May 19th. She is also creating quests on the Deep Island shard (the one that contains many fan Ages), as well as a mystery third project she's working on that will be revealed in time.
Guild of Sleepers
Alien was next to update everyone on their guild's anniversary party coming up on the May 10th at 10:00 KI time. There will be music featuring some well-known D'niJs, at least one marker game, and a movie and music trivia game.
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The D'ni Musicological Research Hood proudly presents:
"Liquid Light"
Turjan will be hosting a special concert to exhibit his newest album.
Early D'ni Music: Tsoïdahl Ahnoets
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-in-the-dmr
The music begins on Saturday, May 5th at 18:00hrs Ki-time.
All cavern dwellers are invited to drop by and to enjoy the music!
It's too bad we have not seen any Gray Hats around recently... well that's about to change!
This Saturday (the 5th) at 1:00 PM EDT, Jamie Marchant will be putting on a show in The Fun House!
It willl consist of the usual stuff you have come to expect from the Gray Hats like Disco Fog, "Mixalllagy" and the age changing around you. If that's not enough he will be taking request from players and he will try his best to fulfill them.
Come one, come all and bring your requests. 
The OpenUru team has announced a new deadline for submitting code improvements and updates for the CWE Client!
May 21st is the date before which all the contributors who want their improvements sent to Cyan will have to get their code ready and tested in the Minkata Shard. After that day all the changes in CWE that are ready will be pushed to Cyan, which hopefully will pick them up soon.
Right now the OpenUru team is trying to gather information about what is ready or almost ready, so they can make a list of changes to submit to Cyan. All the testers of Minkata will be needed for testing completely all the functions and ensuring they work, before May 21st. So if you are a Minkata user, join all your fellow explorers in the sandbox!
After the previous MOULa update, the OpenUru team expressed the desire to have at least one feature or improvement that is evident and useful for the average explorer in every next update. This time we will probably have the new copy/paste ability and maybe something else.
The Guild of Writers website's appearance has recently been overhauled to match Tweek's Wordpress layout! Both the wiki and forum now match the style of the main website, thanks to Lyrositor.
However, bugs and unstyled elements abound as with any styling project of this size, and so help would be appreciated on fixing them. As of the time of this writing, the wiki theme is rather complete, and any bugs found are probably quite rare. The forum, on the other hand, probably has a quite a few hidden areas waiting to be reworked. If you wish to contribute, you can fork the associated git repository and submit pull requests (or submit issues if you're not a web designer).
The old theme is still available, both in the wiki and on the forum.
ADBMM 2012, sponsored in part by The Guild of New Greeters, is finally here! Wondering what ADBMM is? Visit the FAQ here.
This year, there are many exciting activities planned, including the first ever Cavern Mysterium! There will be marker games, Q&A's, challenges, and so much more!
ADBMM begins on Sunday, May 14th and Cavern Mysterium begins on Saturday, May 19th.
A complete shedule of events can be found here.
We still need judges and marker game creators, so if you are at all interested please send Trekluver a PM on the Myst Online forums.
See you in the cavern!
The Guild of Sleepers is organizing a party in MOULa to celebrate their first year of activity!
The previous release of Gehn 7 introduced a number of bugs and unintended side effects which affected anything from the playability of the game to the completion of the Cleft. Fortunately, Gehn 8 was released earlier today, bringing with it a number of fixes and the usual additions (although not quite as many as we may be used to by now). One aspect of functionality which was restored was the spiral door feature in the garden Ages! So gather up all your buddies and head on over to test the Eders!
For a full list of changes:
- Make landing behaviors direction independent
- Fix cleft imager
- Fix SSE3 detection (SSE3 is a missed feature on old CPUs)
- Fix crash exposed by unexpected localization data
- Fix crash in the age patcher
- Restore compatibility with x87-only CPUs (Fallback solution for old CPUs)
- Restore BlueSpiral door functionality
- Relaxed Splines
Deledrius posted another note on the forums about testing, though:
Please note: We've enabled the Tsogal and Delin gardens' Spiral Door puzzles with code which is experimental and needs testing from all of you! It's hard to get enough people together for multiplayer testing on our dev shards, so this one may be a bit unstable and we need Our Intrepid Testers to give it their best! Let us know what works, and what doesn't. It'll be nice to officially take this one off the Known Issues list.
Today Cyan Worlds has published a new video preview for the porting of realMyst to iOS for iPhone and iPad!
You can watch it on YouTube here