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The Myst Documentary and Shay's Complete Lack of Cool
I was interviewed as part of this back when Obduction was just shipping from KS and I got to play some of the demo at the Indie Game Megabooth at PAX in 2016. I was in a wheelchair that year, recovering from my foot surgery, and it was hard to get around PAX, and even harder to get into any demos because the booths are so small and sardined in there. But this was one I was going to MAKE SURE I got in to play, and I came back several times before it was un-busy enough for me to transfer from my wheelchair to a chair and try it out. It was kind of a rigmarole to get situated, but the woman at the booth was super kind and accommodating.
And I only played about 90 seconds before I tried to get up to leave. I couldn't make a clean getaway because of the work it took to try to get the wheelchair back around to me. I had completely lost it while playing--I literally started crying and was desperately trying to get up and leave before anyone saw. The woman at the booth thought I was having trouble with playing the game and stopped me to try to help, saw I was crying, and I had to explain why.
Myst and its offshoots were HUGELY pivotal games in my life, and my anticipation of returning to a Cyan world was a Big Deal. Sitting down and playing just a minute or so, I could see the spiritual threads between Obduction and the whole Myst Universe--in the visuals, the sounds, the pacing--and felt this amazing wave of joy and gratitude and nostalgia. So much it leaked out my eyes. I babbled about all this a little bit, still trying to get away with my dignity intact.
It turns out Rand Miller was at the booth right then, and the woman at the booth asked if I wanted to meet him and tell him myself. I nearly collapsed, and said yes, of course I want to meet him. I got to shake his hand, and I was basically choke sobbing at this point, telling him how much his games meant to me, and how I was one of the first backers of the Obduction Kickstarter, and how Obduction was clearly bringing on all the feels. All the while, a camera was pointed at me.
After I finished talking to Rand, the man with the camera approached me, saying he was making a documentary about Myst, and would I consent to allow the footage to be in his documentary. Feeling foolish, but also intrigued and grateful someone was making a documentary about such a monumentally ground-breaking enterprise as Myst, I agreed and signed. That man was Philip Shane, and he is putting the finishing touches on a project he has been working on for easily half a decade and this KS is for doing just that.
I don't know if footage of me losing any vestige of cool while blabbering and blubbering at Rand will end up in the documentary or on the cutting room floor. (And I don't know which I wish for.) It all happened so fast, I didn't even get a photo with Rand. But I do know I look forward to seeing the finished documentary.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/philipshane/the-myst-documentary?ref=cggras
@TheMystDocs
The Myst Documentary on FB
#GamersUnderstand
And I only played about 90 seconds before I tried to get up to leave. I couldn't make a clean getaway because of the work it took to try to get the wheelchair back around to me. I had completely lost it while playing--I literally started crying and was desperately trying to get up and leave before anyone saw. The woman at the booth thought I was having trouble with playing the game and stopped me to try to help, saw I was crying, and I had to explain why.
Myst and its offshoots were HUGELY pivotal games in my life, and my anticipation of returning to a Cyan world was a Big Deal. Sitting down and playing just a minute or so, I could see the spiritual threads between Obduction and the whole Myst Universe--in the visuals, the sounds, the pacing--and felt this amazing wave of joy and gratitude and nostalgia. So much it leaked out my eyes. I babbled about all this a little bit, still trying to get away with my dignity intact.
It turns out Rand Miller was at the booth right then, and the woman at the booth asked if I wanted to meet him and tell him myself. I nearly collapsed, and said yes, of course I want to meet him. I got to shake his hand, and I was basically choke sobbing at this point, telling him how much his games meant to me, and how I was one of the first backers of the Obduction Kickstarter, and how Obduction was clearly bringing on all the feels. All the while, a camera was pointed at me.
After I finished talking to Rand, the man with the camera approached me, saying he was making a documentary about Myst, and would I consent to allow the footage to be in his documentary. Feeling foolish, but also intrigued and grateful someone was making a documentary about such a monumentally ground-breaking enterprise as Myst, I agreed and signed. That man was Philip Shane, and he is putting the finishing touches on a project he has been working on for easily half a decade and this KS is for doing just that.
I don't know if footage of me losing any vestige of cool while blabbering and blubbering at Rand will end up in the documentary or on the cutting room floor. (And I don't know which I wish for.) It all happened so fast, I didn't even get a photo with Rand. But I do know I look forward to seeing the finished documentary.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/philipshane/the-myst-documentary?ref=cggras
@TheMystDocs
The Myst Documentary on FB
#GamersUnderstand
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