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Cyan porting Myst to iPhone
Starting with the NES emulator, the iPhone was following the evolution of gaming pretty well -- at least until the App Store started mixing things up a bit. After Myst, I think we're right around Wolfenstein and Doom at this point -- those were available jailbroken, but it's about time we get an FPS officially as well. Carmack, you interested?
[via TouchArcade, which is strangely down as of this writing]
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David L Good said 9:30AM on 8-22-2008
It would be great to see the entire Myst games on the iPhone eventually. Possibly some of my all time favorites. The original game should work very well with the iPhone, as it was pretty limited in movement (series of renders), so it will be out soon (hopefully).
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c01dphu510n said 10:38PM on 8-22-2008
I got a copy of the original Quake from Installer, I think, after I jailbroke my 2.0.1 iPhone a couple of weeks ago.
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Aaron Davies said 12:53PM on 8-22-2008
Screw Id, I want to see Pathways into Darkness and the Marathon trilogy! Hmm, I wonder how much work would be required to get Aleph One to run on the iPhone....
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ste!!a said 10:09AM on 8-22-2008
Can't wait.
Myst created a shift in the expectations of what a "computer" game could be.
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Howie Isaacks said 10:17AM on 8-22-2008
This will be nice but, I would sure love it if they would port Riven to Mac OS X. I loved that game. It's been about 8 years since I've played it. It doesn't run on OS X.
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punkassjim said 11:22AM on 8-22-2008
man, I can't ditto this enough. I think, quite often, how great it would be to go back and play Riven for old times'sake.
Also, they basically sold Myst III: Exile right during the transitional period to OS X, so I've never actually played it on an OS 9-only box...and didn't get to play it as much as I would've liked, before I kicked Classic.
G said 9:28PM on 8-22-2008
+1 for Riven
Myst would be very cool, but even years later it probably wouldn't take very long to run through it again. Riven, on the other hand, delicious.
Kelmon said 10:36AM on 8-22-2008
I enjoy an FPS as much as the next person but I really don't see this sort of game working well on the iPhone. In much the same way as applications have had to be re-thought to work well on the device, so I don't see that desktop games designed for a keyboard/mouse control scheme will work on a device with very little in the way of controls. Different controls need different sorts of games, much like the Nintendo Wii demonstrates.
Myst, on the other hand, could work very nicely.
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Toby said 11:34AM on 8-22-2008
I would definitely pay the now-stypical "high-end game" App Store price of $9.99 for the original Myst game. It was a classic and very entertaining and would be perfect to kill large chunks of time on my iPhone. I really hope this project sees the light of day!
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Chris said 11:58AM on 8-22-2008
One word...
YESSSSS!!!!!
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BWhaler said 12:29PM on 8-25-2008
Awesome. I cannot wait for this.
I loved the original Myst. I'm not a big gamer, but I loved the rich environment, the mystic story line, and the puzzles.
I'll be the first in line to purchase this.
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Ramone said 2:01PM on 8-22-2008
Myst was built in HyperCard. Guess they'll be porting HyperCard to the iPhone?
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Rick said 3:29PM on 8-22-2008
great, i need something to help me fall asleep.
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Jeff said 6:06PM on 8-22-2008
i think a rail shooter is more likely than a FPS... at least if we're talking "decent to control"...
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Dave D said 8:39PM on 8-22-2008
Myst and riven, et. al. were all games that I wanted to play, but somehow never did. I have been significantly disappointed to find that even the anniversary editions do not run on a mac. I would be very interested in this on the iphone... and it would be a very intuitive control setup with the touch screen.
Do it!
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Viper007Bond said 2:45AM on 8-23-2008
Wow, I might actually have to buy an app for once! :o
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Karl badde said 8:41AM on 8-25-2008
I'm confident that this will turn in a few bucks to cyan. Though it may not sound very promising to investors to return with a game that's outdated graphicwise, I think most of the "grown-ups" interested in gaming on an iPhone have been gaming myst when they where young.
Hey Lucas Arts, what about Monkey Island?!
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macgirl said 2:43AM on 8-30-2008
This a very cool news, never end the Myst IV though
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