♦Ĭyan's Obduction is available on PC, Mac and Oculus Rift. That would mark the brothers' first kids' adventure game since their 1988 classic, The Manhole. There's a TV pilot called Daffodil (a "techno-thriller" set in Seattle) and a short virtual reality project, as well as a music app for iPhone and iPad.Ī new kids' game, designed with Rand, may be in the works. There is only one maze and two completion rewards to choose from so far.
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With Obduction all wrapped up, what's next? Miller says his Seattle-based company, Zoo Break Productions, is staying busy. This update introduces invisible mazes, which are randomly generated warp mazes that you have to navigate one step at a time because it will send you back to the beginning if you choose the wrong direction. I just kept saying, 'This is amazing, this is amazing.'" Towering mountains seem so close you can touch them, he says, and mist drifts by right in front of your face. The landscapes give a sense of scale unparalleled in VR, especially for a small team like Cyan he reminds that he played no part in the game design. Especially when using Oculus Rift's Virtual Reality headset.Įspecially stunning, he says, are the exterior shots. "I never used that stuff," he says with a dismissive laugh. Gone are his banks of mixers, speakers, multiple keyboards and fancy instruments. In an attempt to replicate the constraints of the Myst era, Miller's studio has been stripped down to the very basics. If it sounds like Miller has gone minimalist, that's not far off the mark.
"What melody can I do with this one sound?" he asks himself, not how many sounds he can pack in. "It's not what you have, but what you do with what you have," Miller says. "I composed the soundtrack to Myst entirely within that synthesizer there was nothing else." That soundtrack, it turned out, proved so wildly popular it was released by Virgin Records. That lack of limits, he says, can hamper creativity. "For instance, I can extend the size of a piano from 10 feet to 15 feet, and get a totally different sound," he says. There's also the temptations of instant modifications and tweaks.
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