Most every puzzle in Obduction helped me to gain a better understanding of the world, or sometimes an understanding of the story led to figuring out a puzzle solution.

It’s an iterative cycle that, for better or worse, is quite clear in Obduction. He wants to puzzles in the world to feel inherently connected to telling the story, that story to be supported by the environment, and the environment to make for good puzzles. As I discovered in my interview with Rand Miller at PSX last year, he values a balance of environment, narrative, and game design. Balancing DesignĪs a game developer, there is such thing as gamification, that is to say, compromising the story or world for the sake of game design. It was, in fact, walking down one of the narrow metal bridges in the foggy granite canyon in Kaptar (the second area) that really hammered the Myst/Riven connection home to me, making me pine for the more innocent days of my youth. Each new area is unique, going from the brightly lit desert town to a mist filled haven built from stone and steel, and more later in the story. That isolated expanse persists through Obduction. Cyan is great at creating mysterious civilizations that were once thriving and are now desolate. This is your story now.The first time you teleport to another world in Obduction feels just like unlocking those books to other ages in Myst. And as you bask in the otherworldly beauty and explore through the enigmatic landscapes, remember that the choices you make will have substantial consequences.

The new worlds of Obduction reveal their secrets only as you explore, coax, and consider them. Adding to the oddity, you discover a strangely kluged kiosk that reassuringly welcomes you to Hunrath. You’ve been abducted from your cozy existence and added into an alien landscape with a stereotypical Kansas farmhouse, a white picket fence, and a rather bizarre little ghost town – well… almost ghost town. A curious, organic artifact falls from the starry sky and inexplicably, without asking permission, transports you across the universe. From Cyan, the indie studio that brought you Myst and Riven comes a whole new adventure that will become your world.Īs you walk beside the lake on a cloudy night, a distant thunderclap demands your attention.

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