Sorry for the long silence, things have been quickly shifting in these strange times.

Even though the development of MORE Urulive has been progressing (the new account system is nearly done!), I’m sorry to say that outside events have caused us to put this project on indefinite hold.

The MORE project was not funded directly but was riding on the coat tails of other projects. Unfortunately and very suddenly, a major revenue stream to Cyan was disrupted. The current Wall Street problems have had a significant, although indirect, effect.

We have no alternative than to put this project on hold. The ultimate future of MORE UruLive will be determined over the coming months. If or when moneys become available we will reassess the roadmap at that time.

Currently, Cyan is redirecting its priorities to focus only on fully funded projects. Of which, Myst for the iPhone/iPod Touch is one of and that project is progressing very well.

From all of us at Cyan, thank you for all your support.

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It’s not often we get some Myst news, but Cyan Worlds are working on a Myst port for the iPhone, iMyst.

iMyst:
This is a small project that probably a very few of you know about. We are porting Myst to the iPhone. Ok, before some of you start groaning, this is an outside funded project that is keeping a few developers employed… but it is really more than that. It is an interesting and fun project. This is also a very small team with three of us (which includes Derek, Rand (not Randy) and myself).
- Mark Deforest

• MarkD’s Post at the Myst Online Forums.
• Wired Article on iMyst
• iMyst Digg Article

DJC itself is more or less up, we had to push the new build to the live site as the old build had security issues with it as a result some of the older pages have been broken due to changes in the CSS.

For now the navigation menu has been disabled on key pages that are available through links on this build. Hopefully we can get the broken sections fixed and get back to adding to the site.

Photographers, Painters, Scupltors all are welcome.

Press Conference

To answer the inevitable deluge of questions arising from this roadmap, Cyan will conduct a press conference on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) starting around Thursday July 3, 2008 at 9 AM Pacific Daylight Time (Noon Eastern). (For a list of international cities and times, please see timeanddate.com.)

If you are not familiar with IRC, the Guild of Messengers has put up a gateway to make your experience easy and pleasant. Visit http://rel.to/IRC and click the “#cyanchat” entry, and after a moment, you will be prompted for your name. Enter your nickname and press “Connect”, and that is all you need to do. No pre-registration or account is needed.

If you are a veteran at IRC, all of the information that you’ll need to join the press conference is listed on the http://rel.to/IRC page.

Note: Conversation that you observe from a user named “CC” is being channeled into #cyanchat by a relay connected to CyanChat, Cyan’s own chat room. For relayed chat, the name in brackets following “CC” is the identify of the speaker.

Shorah,

We’ve got some good news. GameTap and Cyan Worlds have reached an agreement that would return the rights of Myst Online to Cyan Worlds! We’re very excited, but at the same time, there are some hurdles to overcome. Cyan Worlds is currently operating at a reduced capacity. We’re not in a position where we have plenty of resources and people to bring MO back fast and furiously. But we’ve got a plan, and we’d like to run it past you - our fans and supporters.

Please realize that this roadmap is tentative and dynamic - but it’s a starting point. There’s no guarantee that we can accomplish all of these milestones, but they are something to discuss, adjust, and shoot for. We also need to mention that the roadmap below will most likely involve some minimal subscriber fees - something along the lines of $25 (US) for six months. (That number is subject to change.) We are not trying to make any money on this at this stage - but we do need to cover some of the costs. (Additional fees may apply for future Cyan content, front-end shard ownership, etc.)

You should know that the roadmap does not involve any new content from Cyan at this time. The plan is to start to move the content creation - the “Art” - to you. In addition the guilds themselves will start to exercise some authority in writing, monitoring, approving, communicating, etc.

For now, please watch and participate in the mystonline.com forum http://www.mystonline.com/forum/index.php. This will be a good place to find updates - as well as through the Guild of Messengers and their affiliates http://www.guildofmessengers.com Also, consider joining one of the Guilds.

And because we felt like we all needed a little levity to combat the crazy whiplash of the continuing death and resurrection of Myst Online, we’ve decided to temporarily name the resurrection plan - Myst Online: Restoration Experiment (MORE) as in “We want MORE!”

Thanks again for so much support!

The MORE team

A high resolution version of this image has been added to our Minkata gallery: High Res Screenshot

Tom Sowa reports that after months of talks rights for the game are back in CyanWorlds hands.

• Spokesman Review Article