Myst Online - Interview @ ACG

Adventure Classic Gaming talks to Mark Dobratz, Producer/Project Manager at Cyan Worlds, about the redevelopment of the Uru project as Myst Online: Uru Live.

You were among the few employees who never left Cyan Worlds. When did you first hear the news that the Uru Live project had been revived under GameTap as Myst Online: Uru Live? How many, among whose who had previously worked on Uru Live, were invited back to Cyan Worlds to work on this new project?

Literally just a couple days after we had let almost everyone go, Mark DeForest (our CTO) and I flew down to Atlanta with Rand Miller and Tony Fryman to see if we could work something out with Turner. At first it seemed like standing over the open coffin and trying to do CPR at the funeral, but as the meetings progressed we began to realize what a great fit this might be, and by the end of the trip we were confident that, against all odds, we were going to make something good happen. Of course, it took a little longer to get all the details and paperwork sorted out, but that trip was when it became a reality.