A charming Myst journal

Amazingly, my dad just found our original save files for Myst—I love that you can tell I didn’t get to endgame until I was prepping to play Riven in 1997, and that dad named his endgame file “Syztem Reset” to keep @hummeline.bsky.social and I from accidentally opening it:

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— Claire Hummel (@shoomlah.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM

You can see the ‘94-‘97 time jump in my Myst notes as well, where I proudly claim “I’m eleven!!” right as the handwriting gets a whole lot better

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— Claire Hummel (@shoomlah.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM

Made it a career:

Making the goofiest Myst merch known to mankind—and the faux-90's Apple ad branding to match—because I CAN. Available this week at store.cyan.com

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— Claire Hummel (@shoomlah.bsky.social) September 25, 2024 at 11:27 AM

My Riven poster is finally up in the Cyan store! store.cyan.com My love letter to classic Riven, in which I tried to cram as much imagery and symbolism into one poster as I possibly could:

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— Claire Hummel (@shoomlah.bsky.social) August 7, 2024 at 2:34 PM

extremely excited to announce my new 30th Anniversary poster for Myst, available over at store.cyan.com 📚 This imagery has been indelibly inscribed on the inside of my eyelids since I was a kid, so it was an absolute joy bringing it to life in a more official capacity:

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— Claire Hummel (@shoomlah.bsky.social) November 21, 2023 at 9:42 AM

Myst Island recreated in Animal Crossing

Extremely proud of the little details, all of which take up an obscene number of my island’s custom design slots 😬👍🏼 pic.twitter.com/4wfAx5DG8I

— Claire Hummel (@shoomlah) March 24, 2024

Today's funny posts

some friends of mine finished their first playthrough of myst last night. to celebrate i made a super mario 64 rom hack for them to explore. pic.twitter.com/UMjnh0Bk9i

— isyourguy (@isyourguy) July 29, 2022

Virtual reality golf playable on Myst island

Available for Meta Quest and Steam VR, this is an entirely new way to see Myst. Combining the spirit and puzzles of Myst with the connection and fun of mini golf!

The game features immersive gameplay, realistic physics and iconic settings that you're going to love playing in.🎉 pic.twitter.com/LuO369bIJZ

— Cyan Inc. (@cyanworlds) April 6, 2022

I probably could have worded that better... Walkabout Mini Golf comes with 8 courses by default... The Myst DLC will add 36 new holes (2 courses, 18 'easy' holes, 18 'difficult' holes) to the base game. 😎

— Cyan Inc. (@cyanworlds) April 6, 2022

Genuine project to add new courses to the existing VR golf game Walkabout Mini Golf VR. Here's an interview about the project (conducted with avatars):

 

Mia Farrow plays Myst VR; Liminal spaces in gaming; Kermit added to GTA

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So weird that they added this guy to Smash Bros pic.twitter.com/GUPxG83buq

— Adam Koford (@apelad) December 20, 2020

liminal spaces in gaming https://t.co/cJENpO81GJ

— ari velazquez 🌯 (@roxaloxa) December 30, 2020

Kermit mod for GTA:

Myst book

Pics of the front and back. pic.twitter.com/vSGyH5wNzC

— brian huntington (@NotZombies) November 17, 2020

Myst "falling guy" pin

Available at Fangamer.

Myst Kickstarter reward is a book with animated cover

"At the Maintainer tier and above, the book will include an active 800 x 400 digital screen with video fly-throughs from the games."

"Is it true that you and Disney were working together at one point to make a sort of real-world version of Myst Island?"

From an interview with Myst creator Rand Miller:

AVC: In a way, the rise of escape rooms has gone a long way toward creating Myst-like spaces in the real world. Have you done one?

RM: No. The guys here at the office have. We’ve got one that’s not far from our office, and they’ve gone in and done it. I would love to. I’d like to make one—I guess that’s part of my makeup. Here at our office, we’ve got a chunk of land in the woods close by, and I keep thinking, “Oh my gosh, of course we need a cool escape-the-room associated with Myst that we could do some sweet stuff with.” I start thinking of all the crazy, cool stuff, like, “We’ll do projection mapping and we’ll bring in automated stuff. We’ll have smart controls, and it’ll be awesome.” I don’t know when that’ll happen, but yes, that whole concept excites me. I’m into this stuff. [Laughs.] The only thing better than VR at this point, as far as immersing yourself in something that feels like real-world experience, I guess, is the real world. So, it would be really cool if you could do it well. I guess that’s the tricky part.

AVC: Is it true that you and Disney were working together at one point to make a sort of real-world version of Myst Island?

RM: That was absolutely true. At some point, there were some really cool plans to do some stuff with Disney. We were looking at it as the ultimate incarnation of our world. Basically, there was a place down in Florida—it’s one of the island areas that they had that wasn’t used very much. But it had some walkways among trees, and an island area, and we went down and looked at it and walked around it, and it was incredibly Myst-like. It was perfect for Myst. So we were all excited.

Microscale Lego Myst Island

By Letranger Absurde.

Doom/Myst poster

By James Harvey.

Recent Screenburn posts

1.  Anti-Mario warp pipe in the real world.

2.  Light-up Warhammer 40k cathedral gaming table.

3.  Myst Island in Sim City.

"Original Illustrator file of Myst island"

My computer doesn't seem to have the software needed to open the file, but, apparently if you go to this link at Robyn Miller's blog, you can download the original Illustrator file of Myst island, in editable high resolution form.

*Previously: Photos of Robyn Miller's grandfather's workshop.