Cyan Worlds, the developer behind the timeless PC point-and-click adventure games Myst and Riven, announced it has laid off 12 staff members, or roughly half the team. The Myst developers stated that the layoffs would take effect at the end of March and asked other studios to reach out about hiring the ones affected.
Originally released in September 1993 on the Macintosh OS before making its way to Windows 3.1 in March 1994, Myst was designed by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller. Myst received a remake in 2020 for Oculus VR headsets and was subsequently ported to Steam and Xbox consoles in 2021. Set on the titular island of Myst, players must solve various puzzles to fully unlock the island's mysteries and backstory. The game's setting is further divided into smaller worlds called Ages. Examples of Ages that Myst players can explore include the Mechanical Age and the Stoneship Age. Unlike most PC games at the time, Myst has no violence and imposes no time limits to solve the game's challenging puzzles.
Pre-rendered backgrounds allowed developers to work around the technical limitations of earlier consoles, resulting in beautiful environments.
Despite its reputation for crafting beloved dark fantasy...
