has completed a successful 30-day Kickstarter campaign to fund its next immersive video game, Firmament, and has added new staff in anticipation of the game’s release next summer. “We’ve added a couple of new hires to begin working on Firmament, which we plan to release sometime in July 2020.” “For our campaign, we asked for about $1.3 million and made about $1.4 million through 18,420 backers,” says Rand Miller, cofounder and CEO of Cyan. Miller says Cyan, which is best known for creating the popular Myst and Riven games about 25 years ago, continues to push toward big goals despite its small size. “Myst paved the way for us, and we saw a bit of resurgence with the release of Obduction in 2016,” he says. “Firmament is the second game we’ve done through a Kickstarter campaign, and it seems to have fueled the fires of interest from our fans again.”Ĭyan Inc. remains at its longtime headquarters, occupying about 7,000 square feet in the two-building, 22,000-square-foot complex it once filled at 14617 N. ![]() Prior to the Firmament Kickstarter, Miller says Cyan completed a campaign last year to fund the release of a 25th Anniversary package for Myst. He says that campaign had a goal of $250,000 but reached a total of $2.8 million in funding. ![]() ![]() “With the plans for Firmament, it feels like we’re in a really good position.” “That campaign did really well and was a great way for us to kind of celebrate our beginnings,” he says. Miller says Cyan, as a smaller company, sees certain advantages to using the Kickstarter platform to develop and publish games. “The gaming industry can be tough for indie developers like us, as these are projects that many large publishers don’t want to take on due to the risk,” he says.
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