![]() ![]() Why and how a particular door was locked or path was blocked off is reconciled in the narrative, told through journals, sheets of paper and other bits around the world. 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. Unreal Engine updated from 4.14 to 4.15.Īdded content that was previously exclusive to the PS4 version.The first time you teleport to another world in Obduction feels just like unlocking those books to other ages in Myst. Removal of debug commands language fixes better Mac support bug fixes.Īdded Oculus Rift support added Nvidia Ansel support removed duplicate gravestone in Cemetery bug fixes.Īdded HTC Vive support added support for hand controls in VR bug fixes. Information about each update is available here. With the exception of 1.0.1, each update was released first to beta testers as a "public preview" before being made available to all players. Obduction has received several updates since its initial release. ![]()
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