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The article didn't make mention of the role of sound in Myst. I remember people setting up their big 90's stereos with massive speakers to fully immerse themsel
by Eyght 8y ago
The article didn't make mention of the role of sound in Myst. I remember people setting up their big 90's stereos with massive speakers to fully immerse themselves in the Myst world. The game really built a strange, otherworldy atmosphere.
- dmschulman 8y agoSome of the best music ever composed for a computer game I'd argue.
- drdeadringer 8y agoI've some of the OSTs at home 'cause I liked it so much.
- duskwuff 8y agoThey're available on iTunes, FWIW. I'm especially fond of the Riven soundtrack; it's got a great meditative mood to it. https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/robyn-miller/447729601 https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/robyn-miller/447729601
- drdeadringer 8y agoI remember seeing a TV special on how they came up with the sound effects. One of them was created by something along the lines of rotating a vibrating wrench just inside a toilet bowl... and all the sound effects was stuff like that.
- geerlingguy 8y agoIt was amazing learning all of that back when the game was new... and it's still a great lesson today: http://www.mystjourney.com/myst/studies/ http://www.mystjourney.com/myst/studies/ The video has the bubbles-in-the-toilet-bowl explanation (see 7:30 onwards), along with a ton of other great nuggets.
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoThe music and the sound in Myst and Riven were both outstanding - absolute classics of the genre, and even more amazing given that they were an amateur effort by one of the creators, and not the work of a full-time composer or game sound designer. There was one location in Riven where I spent about fifteen minutes listening to a short-ish music loop over and over and watching a simple atmospheric location animation, because both were just so perfect.
- netwanderer2 8y agoThis really proves in the arts and creative business, it's really an individual's work that connects the souls. You can have a team of thousands of people, but if no one has any vision or creativity then their work can go straight down the toilet.
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- mercer 8y agoPrince of Persia and Rollercoaster Tycoon come to mind (and are apparently quite the HN darlings).
- mercer 8y agoEven just the first minutes, the Cyan logo, and the introductory music, are etched into my brain. Every once in a while, despite the fact that I haven't played Myst in at least a decade, they'll just pop in my head.
- poisonarena 8y agoWhen it's 1993 you start up the game and watch the Cyan logo.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUZ6V6CZtcg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUZ6V6CZtcg