Project Proposal Background:
Over the years this community has built to a stage where I believe we may be ready for a new project.
None of the following is fixed and it should be seen as a discussion document I would suggest that any idea that comes from it should be run past Cyan to see if they have any objections.
Consider the following:
We have a common language we all understand with respect to the gaming environment embodied by what we should probably call the “Myst Uru Gaming Universe”.
The terms that spring to mind are:
Ages.
Linking.
Linking Books.
Linking tapestries.
KI.
Relto.
Relto Pages
The Desert.
Neighbourhood.
Neighbourhood membership.
City.
Nexus.
Shared Age (visiting).
Guest.
Age Run.
Bharo.
Bharo Pillar.
There are also some background terms applicable to age building like:
Shard
Alcugs.
Vault.
Dirtsand.
Sequence Prefix.
Avatar.
Age instance.
Shared Age Instance.
Personal Age Instance.
Yeesha Magic.
I am sure there are others. For a lot of the above terms there are also some accepted short hands like hood and avie.
The Proposal:
The core of my proposal is some totally new universe of worlds (ages) that has some new start point a new version of “The Desert” (I have considered a desert island at the start of the game the player would swim ashore) that would use some method of transportation (Linking) between a new home instance (Relto).
The mythos of Uru involves your introduction to the ages by Yeesha if this is to fall outside the Myst Uru universe then we would require some introduction to the environment.
Even within the Myst Uru Universe there are some things that are never explained like the garden ages where you have the group opening of a door and on running into a cave you link to some other place where you can acquire a bharo stone an animated artefact that is added to your personal relto.
Admitted this is a subset of “Yeesha Magic”.
I always (and this is personal) that there was a trick missed in that the same ages that were used to obtain the Bharo pillars were the same ages used to return the Bharo Pillars.
Or even if the same ages were used then a different set of Journey cloths in different locations were initialised based on having the Bharo Pillar and these were used to return the pillars to some new location.
What I am suggesting is that we initially have a working group where we set up something similar to Dirtsand for personal non Uru age building and a “Shared Testing Shard” something like Deep Island or Ghen where we could test a shared experience leading ultimately to a “Game Shard” name unknown where this new game could be played and tested by Beta users.
That this would use the game engine as it exists but where the mythos would not be subject to “Yeesha Magic”.