Post #1990197

2026-05-05 01:52 UTC

really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991. it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper. as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here: https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal originally from robyn's site: http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films #digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan

Replies (12)

@eibriel@mstdn.games 2026-05-05 01:58

@vga256 Love how obvious it is that its made in a Mac

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@treefifty@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 02:15

@vga256 It’s things like this that make me appreciate the “Save” (or bookmark) feature on Mastadon.

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@Screwtapello@teh.entar.net 2026-05-05 02:28

@vga256 So the Observatory was originally reached by a winding path, rather than a weirdly mechanical secret passage? That does make more sense, now that I think about it. I wonder why they changed it.

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@nathan@types.pl 2026-05-05 05:38

@vga256 I love the "clearly drawn in ClarisWorks" Figure C so much

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@theludovyc@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 07:43

@vga256 Hello 👋 ! Thanks for sharing. What do you mean by "uploading it to IA" ?

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@mwichary@mastodon.online 2026-05-05 14:48

@vga256 Hi – just a note that those pages are of order on IA. (My recommendation would be to fuse them into a PDF first and upload that. That would also make the pagination experience a lot nicer.)

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@trashpandaqc@mastodon.online 2026-05-05 15:41

@vga256 hiding in plain sight, but I just realized that map is pre-marker switches too

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@chrisnelsonsdog@mstdn.social 2026-05-05 15:51

@vga256 I really enjoyed this game, spent way too much time on it.

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@flamecat@bark.lgbt 2026-05-05 18:16

@vga256 As someone who grew up with the Myst games I really really love this. It's so interesting to see how recognisable this is from the final game while noticing the subtle differences in there. One thing I found curious is that there were plans to have a good and a evil brother instead of (spoilers for a 30 year old game I guess) both being evil and you having to save their father for the good ending. I wonder why that was changed.

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@neighborhoodnerd21@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 22:19

@vga256 this was a beautiful game all around

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@M0KHR@mastodon.radio 2026-05-06 05:45

@vga256 I loved that game!

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@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl 2026-05-06 11:09

@vga256 I tried playing that game when I was way too young to really grasp what I was doing... I should try again sometime!

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