Mysterium Convention

Thirty-two years ago today, Myst was released.
Happy Birthday, little guy!
🎂

Happy Friday everyone!!
Art/panel submissions are now open and planning for 2026 is officially underway!
Have a look at our latest blog post for more info:
mysterium.net/2025/09/keep...
Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Goood morning!

It's time to say goodbye to 2025 and usher in 2026! Our final 2025 post, including survey highlights, the YouTube playlist, and our 2026 co-chair introductions, can be found here: mysterium.net/2025/09/fare...

Hope to see you all in Portland next year! 🩵

COSMIC OSMO MENTIONED 🥳🍾🎉

Our community is descending upon mapped Mead, Washington and repping on wplace. 🩵

A dimly lit stone tunnel leads to a closed stone door framed by a metallic border in the game Riven. Above the door is a small spotlight casting a soft glow, and a circular peephole or viewport is visible on the door. To the left of the door, a red button and a small inset panel are embedded in the stone wall. The rough, natural rock walls of the tunnel create a sense of mystery and confinement. The Riven logo appears in the bottom right corner, and a small Cyan logo is in the lower left.

What's best is hidden, obvious, and correct.

Explore Riven on Steam, GOG, Meta Quest, and the Mac App Store ⤵️

https://cyan.com/games/riven/

YouTube video by taniith Mysterium 2025 - Esher Videos

I was asked to do some silly Esher videos for Mysterium 2025, so here they are in a big compilation. I even included some bloopers at the end (warning - there are a couple swears in the bloopers).

youtu.be/S3rIlXI4e0o

They won't tell you about this nowadays but Riven, the sequel to myst

A calendar grid for the first half of August shows dates from July 29 to August 15. Each date square from July 30th through August 14 is filled with an image representing a different Cyan game, showcasing scenes from titles like Myst, Riven, Firmament, Obduction, and more. The image promotes Cyan's GOG summer sale, running through August 14, with a visual nod to the variety across their game portfolio.

🌄 Explore iconic worlds. Uncover new favorites.

Now through August 14, get up to 60% off a daily rotating selection from our game catalogue on GOG!

See what's on sale today ⤵️

https://www.gog.com/en/games?query=cyan%20worlds&order=desc:score&discounted=true

we love yoooou!! 🩵🩵🩵

Group photo from Mysterium 2025

It's been such a fantastic weekend! Thank you to all our wonderful attendees for coming! We're looking forward to seeing you again next year!! 🩵

bead ytram :D
#mysterium2025 #myst #riven

MY knife now >:3
#mysterium2025

I wish I could be there :D
@mysteriumcon.bsky.social

Yes! Most of of our events this year will be broadcasted live on our Twitch!

More info here:
mysterium.net/schedule/

A promotional image for Mysterium, the annual fan-run convention celebrating Myst, D’ni, and Cyan. The top half features an open Myst-style book with the word "Mysterium" in elegant script and the tagline "the annual celebration of all things Myst, D’ni, and Cyan" below it. The book shows a 3D render of trees and a linking book, evoking the style of the Myst games. The bottom half shows a large group of attendees from a past Mysterium event, gathered outdoors on green grass in front of a cabin surrounded by tall pine trees, smiling and posing for a group photo.

This year's annual @mysteriumcon.bsky.social—a celebration of all things Myst & D'ni run by the fans, for the fans—is happening this weekend!

Join them in Atlanta, GA on August 1st - 3rd. 📖🌌✨

More details ⤵️
mysterium.net/category/new...

A stained glass version of a Ytram (frog) from the game Riven. Orange water glass with paints to show the marking from the in-game animal. It has a round orange gem for an eye/head. It is held against a sunny sky, with the sun coming through the gem.

Same glass piece, but held near a white table to show the colorful shadow of sunlight shining through it.

Same glass piece, but held against a backdrop of green vegetation.

Same glass piece, but rested on a white railing.

Finally finished this "quick" Ytram project I started last spring.

First time working with glass paints. It's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Love that shadow 😍🐸

This will be a prize at Mysterium this year (if UPS cooperates).

#StainedGlass #Myst #Riven

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

Good morning! Only two more weeks til Mysterium!!! Hope you're all as excited as we are!!

Before you head out, we pulled together some helpful information to know. Be sure to take a peek:
mysterium.net/2025/07/know...

See you all VERY soon!

Really loving how these coasters are turning out for @mysteriumcon.bsky.social !!

One of the last things @gilespink.bsky.social and I helped to get out the door! cyan.com/the-myst-tri...

Such a joy to get these suckers cleaned up and ready for prime time—this is definitely the best the eBooks have ever looked. ♥️📖

Perfect for those mornings where you need a nice, piping-hot cup of... sand?

We'll have these awesome limited-run engraved tumblers available for purchase on-site this year!

So it’s my turn to join my talented peers in an overcrowded pool and say 🚨I am officially looking for short-term contract / freelance writing and narrative design work 🚨. I’ve got years of experience with branching narrative, dialogue writing, and quest design and much more.

Cyan Alumni - PUBLIC Contact Info - Responses

Hi all—we're sorry to say that we've had another round of layoffs at Cyan.

We've updated our previously shared sheet to reflect folks still (or newly) looking for opportunities:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NURnVwfeqolPAVN-Dn44UpXZS3bRVMaCNQczIzhIpdc/edit?usp=sharing

The US ban on state AI regulation may be voted on in the senate very soon. If you live in one of these states - FL, MO, TX, TN, WI, AK, ME - please call your senators & ask them to remove the "state AI regulation ban" in the budget reconciliation bill NOW! Link to call & what to say in next post 1/

A lanyard charm depicting the Bahro tablet from Myst V

Shorah!

We have a few deadlines coming up!

Tuesday, July 1st: Excursions, swag pre-orders, and discounted pre-reg
Wednesday, July 9th: Hotel rate and availability guarantee
Tuesday, July 15th: Writing and Art Submissions

Read more in our latest blog post:
mysterium.net/2025/06/just...

A WIP of a piece I'm working on for June's creativity prompt on the @mysteriumcon.bsky.social discord! I'm always a sucker for Sunners! Colours coming soon #Myst #Riven #CyanWorlds #art #fanart #Sunners #timelapse

This is probably way more effort than Sony was expecting, but HEY it was super fun getting to draw a bunch of tiny little vignettes from classic Myst/Riven 📕📘

another Catherine painting, inspired by the #Riven remake 💖