His favorite addition to Obduction was a camera, which allows you to take photos to reference later, a great help for puzzle solving and documenting potential clues. Just do whatever the next thing you can do is, and keep doing that, until you win.” “It’s a more linear experience … There were a few stretches where I didn't feel like I had to use my brain. The late game, he said, ended up a little less interesting. It’s open-ended enough to let you wander between puzzles, but not so big that you’ll get lost wandering as you would in Riven. Jeremy called out the opening hours of Obduction as the cleanest experience Cyan has made: there’s a character who gives you some high-level direction and goals to pursue, but it’s still up to you to find your way to those goals.

'I didn't have confidence, even in Robyn and Rand, to create something that quite did for me what Riven has done.' It's a lot easier because of that, to begin with, but it's a more normal videogame learning experience to get up to speed with it. They really guide you very nicely into the mindset that you need to be in for the game.

I think they were already good at coming up with interesting worlds to explore, they've been on point with that since the early days, but the one thing they've really gotten good at now is just game design. “I was really pleasantly surprised, especially out of the gate. “I didn't have confidence, even in Robyn and Rand, to create something that quite did for me what Riven has done,” he told me. When Cyan Worlds launched its Kickstarter for Obduction in 2013, Jeremy backed the project but tried to keep his excitement in check.

It might've been a weird perfect storm thing, where some of it is even accidental.” “It's also a ridiculously hard game, and I don't know how much of that is intentional, and how much the development effort got out of hand.

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