The Making of Riven (1998) - Remastered 

I lived in Spokane for 7 years and only learned that Cyan was there after I moved away!

I noticed that too and loved it also! What I want to know is how did they make the door open without anybody physically opening it? Fishing wire? Haha.

There's a remake (with some additions, i understand) coming this year :)

@@ShannonCarey0x53 Yeah, and I think a Cyan-made sequel (not the garbage that was III and IV) would be good too. Outsourcing III and IV was really bad for the brand.

ME. TOO.

So good. I wish we saw more video games combine CG and live action like this.

@@EricGranata I agree… It’s quite a shame that such a technique went “out of fashion” in the 90s and video game developers instead chose to always make their human characters designed in their 3-D modeling programs. 😢

It is the best Video Game Ever created and will never be bettered. I completely lost myself in Riven years ago on playstation with the little grey mouse on a magazine on an old shaky table sitting on the side of my bed and it was the best gaming experience of my life. I now have all the latest PC gaming equipment and set up and I still can't better it... Cyan are Remaking Riven now in full 3D and VR on unreal 5 engine released later this year, but im not convinced as Myst 21 remake completely ruined the feel of the game. But I would like to walk around Riven in VR. we'll see

I am playing it for the first time right now, and some of the puzzles/physics are nonsensical. For example, there is a three way twisty knob connected to WATER PIPES in the middle of the Boiler Island lake. Because they are WATER PIPES, I spent forever thinking that it would change direction of water being fed/received to 3 different locations (in fact, I remember hoping it would fill up a tiny wading pool with pipes coming into and out of it on Jungle island). It was the only time I’ve had to cheat so far, looking at the hint tab for how that twisty knob worked, and was gobsmacked to read it SUPPLIES POWER! I expect power to look like WIRES, just as we see in a different place in the game, where a silver wire is attached to a generator you turn on and off. I’m still fuming at the incorrect graphics being used to convey a purpose for a puzzle, and now I’m worried I’m going to run into more nonsensical things like that.

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 its a world that was created by writing in a book. nothing in it makes sense. there are no real life physics or sense. the steam pipes are evident from the very start that that is what powers most machinery. They have totally destroyed the remake with new puzzles and areas that just dont fit in. its just another awful re-imagining of a masterpiece... sad

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 these are not water pipes, they carry steam instead. And many mechanisms in the game are steam-powered.

On a Riven-inspired home, have you looked into 'Earthship' architecture? Particularly with the materials in more arid climates, it might be similar to what you have in mind. House styles in Santa Fe & Pueblo also apparently were influential in the architecture of the Myst series.

You seriously want to live in a tiny straw dome hut? The hell?

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 I think they meant the architecture, not the floorplan.

Loving your playthroughs and also I never thought about that about the Mag Lev. They really could have taken the easy way out.

Might be worth waiting for Cyan's in-progress remake.

It happens even now. The rich have multiple homes they are barely in. The ultra rich own entire islands they may visit for a week in a year or more. Ghen at least seemed to have a purpose for those that was greater than what we see in reality.

@@adamdawson8844 Truly rich people would have servants on their private islands. The impression we got from the classic game was that it was JUST Ghen on four out of the five islands, with no servants or other subordinates.