It’s all begging to be deciphered.Ĭyan, creators of Myst, revealed the Kickstarter for Obduction on the anniversary of their original classic. The purple alien landscape, in the foreboding distance and surrounding everything, recontextualizes it all as a mystery. The junkyard, graffiti, and power plant make it look like infrastructure hidden an hour’s drive from the city. The train tracks, lone ranch house, and wild west village make it look like The Magic Kingdom’s eclectic and uninhabited ToonTown. You awaken in the new world, or perhaps the town that is a world, Hunrath, abandoned and still. A tranquil moonlight night by the lake, interrupted by a fallen star that explodes into a pollen of light. In a similar setup, Obduction begins with the world falling on to you. An iconic frame-prime enough for the box art-of a free-fall silhouette descending from a rift into a starry unknown. Myst (1993) began with Atrus (one of the series’ central curators, played by co-creator Rand Miller) falling out of his world. Imagine the confusion you’d feel if you one day woke up underwater. ![]() ![]() More terrestrial than extraterrestrial, obduction means when one oceanic tectonic plate heaves up and laps over a continental plate. Obduction, despite how cosmic the word sounds, does not refer to flying saucers.
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