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I thought I should congratulate Cyan Worlds on a really good port of the original MYST to the iPhone. That they managed to accomplish this at all is pretty amazing, but they went beyond getting the game on there and really tried to adapt the control interface for the touch screen.

And according to numbers on the App Store, they are doing quite well, at number 10 overall in the US. Considering the game is a massive 727 MB, that’s quite an achievement.

And before you ask, no, I don’t have Riven X working on the phone… yet. There are a number of technical challenges standing in the way, most notably the sheer amount of assets in Riven and background movies (the phone may not be able to handle those at all). In any case, I am focused on finishing the desktop version first.

Speaking of which, I should have the first development release of the 0.8 series out shortly.

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Riven X 0.7d4

Riven X 0.7d4 is now available. This release introduces preliminary fullscreen support, browsable journals and the journal inventory. See the release notes for more details.

Download Riven X 0.7d4 (5.1 MB).

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Riven X 0.5

Update: Riven X 0.6 is now available.

Riven X 0.5 is now available. The most important new feature is the edition manager, which will allow owners of the CD edition as well as owners of the various DVD editions to use Riven X. It should be noted that optical disc swapping is not supported yet, which means that CD edition owners should do a full install for the time being. Other changes include performance improvements and a large amount of bug fixes.

Riven X’s edition manager

There is a number of outstanding issues in this version, namely one that will badly affect single-processor machines (see bug #70). I will try to remedy this in the early 0.6 builds, which will become available through Sparkle.

Riven X 0.6 will be a more interesting releasing focusing on missing engine features, such as transitions, cursors and so forth. For detailed information, see the 0.6 milestone page.

Download Riven X 0.5.

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