Be warned, spoilers for Myst games (though if you haven't already played them by now you likely aren't looking to):

So I've started thinking about how I would implement this enormous labour, and have come up with some general points so far. why not unofficially add a geocache to that list? Of course it would be different to the original it is a fundamentally different experience to play through the Miller brothers' masterpiece than it is to walk through similarly beautiful if less fantastical countryside with a GPSr (not least because there are no muggles on Myst Island except you), but that need not detract - it would be a tribute to the Miller brothers' genius, as well as the beauty of whatever locales I could task with standing in for the Ages. Why not, in a massive string of multi-caches, recreate every puzzle, every location, the whole flow of the original game? MYST had, from its original Mac OS version, been ported to Windows, PSX, Atari Jaguar, PSP, DS, iOS et al. Geocaches are, after all, far easier to maintain than annual conventions.Īnd then ambition got the better of me. But later, some idle searching brought GC1RD48 to my attention, and its structure gave me an idea - why not a geocache, or a series of geocaches? They could all be Myst-themed and I could even use them to help organize a future convention if ever the possibility arose. However, it occurred to me that any attempt I made to restart the old convention would likely wind up the same way as the first rapid commercial unsustainability. I had already suspected MYSTralia was long since defunct, and had a mind to contact the administrators with a view to seek permission to restart it on my own. Unfortunately, their forums had remained untouched for a good three years (the original domain, which redirected to an IPB site, had long since expired) and I was not able to reach the administrators by email. At least so I thought, until some errant Googling led me to the forums of MYSTralia, essentially our very own mini-MYSTerium. I am also, unfortunately in this case, Australian - while the series has a well-established, organized fanbase in the US, even having its own convention (MYSTerium), nothing of the sort exists here. I am a long-time fan of the world-renowned MYST series of video games by Cyan Worlds. This is my first post here, and it is therefore customary for greetings to take place at this juncture I will keep mine brief so as to not detract from what I am envisaging.įirstly, some background is in order.

Myst fireplace puzzle