The Myst Calendar 1996
The '96 calendar had pictures of Myst, plus new excerpts from some of Atrus' other journals.
View from the Gears |
Library of Atrus (new render) |
The Planetarium |
The Garden (new render) |
Bird's eye view - Stoneship Age (new render) |
The bookroom - Stoneship Age |
Bedroom of Sirrus - Stoneship Age |
The inlet - Selenitic Age (new render) |
Bedroom of Sirrus - Channelwood Age |
East Island - Mechanical Age (new render) |
D'ni prison (new render) |
Cavern (Wahrkroom of Riven) |
The Myst Calendar 1997
The '97 calendar had all new pictures of the Myst Ages (plus one of Riven) taken at different times of day.
Mechanical Age - cloudy |
Selenitic Age at night |
Stoneship Age - telescope at sunset |
Myst Island - rocket at night |
Myst Island - garden at night |
Channelwood Age - windmill |
Myst island - from sea level |
Channelwood Age |
Selenitic Age from above |
Mechanical Age at night |
Stoneship Age at night |
East path (from Riven) |
The Music Box
The left image is a screen shot from Myst. It is a picture of the yellow checker-box in Sirrus' bedroom in the Mechanical Age. In the game it can't be opened. To the right you see an image of the same box, but this time it's open. If you look closely, you will see that it looks like an old fashion music box inside. I don't know if this is an undiscovered easter egg, or if it is an image published by Cyan after the game release. The picture looks very real so I believe it's not a fake.
The Crumpled Note
The first image shows Catherine's note to Atrus. The note is crumpled, and is a view that can't be seen in the game. The second picture is taken from Cyan's Myst images page. You can see the crumpled note lying on the ground. These pictures is probable early screenshots, that later were removed from the final version of Myst.
A Channelwood Valve
This image is taken from Cyan's main Myst page. It is a new rendering of one of the valves in Channelwood. The valves was used to redirect water to give power to different engines. |
The Windmill
This is another view of the Windmill in Channelwood Age. The image could be purchased as a poster at Cyan's store, but is no longer available. |
The Selenitic Walking Maze
This maze was in the beginning meant to be in Myst, but Cyan later decided to leave it out. It was done because it was a very complex 3D model to force on the Quadras Cyan were using to render Myst. Chuck Carter said on his web page that once he told Rand and Robyn how long it would take to render all the necessary screens for the walking maze, they decided to scrap it and go with the much more compact and quickly-rendered mazerunner system.
The Myst Island
This image is the same as the one on the front page of the 1996 Myst calendar. This image suits the desktop background on your computer extremely well. Click the image to get the full size version.
Early Design Scetches
I've been corresponding a bit with Robyn Miller who has been generous enough to let me share some of the files from his vault with you. More of these can be found in Riven pictures not apperaring in the game
When Myst and Riven were in the makings, Robyn sometimes used Adobe Illustrator either to work out his designs, to create cleaner versions of previous designs, or even to establish flowcharts of the entire game.
Robyn: "This was an early design for the Channelwood age. It was never used. I think a tiny picture of this apparatus appeared on our game proposal which I posted on my tinselman blog at one point."