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by tobr 4632 days ago
I'm surprised how good this looks. Cyan hasn't really been able to produce anything of high quality or good taste for the past 10 years (and I say this as a huge fan of some of their earlier games). What little they show here though looks both tasteful and intriguing.

I hope this will be a turning point for this struggling company.

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Yeah, their most recent efforts are some really shitty-looking mobile games: http://cyan.com/games/stoneship/ and http://cyan.com/games/bug-chucker/

They've been struggling under the shadow of Myst. Hopefully this will get them back on track.

This project does seem to play to their strengths more - during the Uru era, they got hugely involved in the technical side of things (running an MMO game, creating their engine in house, stuff like that) - and their major successes were almost entirely graphics and story, with only the minimum tech needed to pull that off.