Weekly news roundup #2

#1 · February 24, 2020, 5:15 pm

On Thursday, a small update for MOULa was released, 918.OpenUru#153:
- the status message on the login screen now works, and also displays the donations coverage for the previous month;
- marker games are now limited to 300 markers, as some of the larger decoration sets were causing issues to the server.
Cyan also retweeted the announcement from Limited Run of the pre-orders for the physical edition of realMyst for the Nintendo Switch, on February 28 at 10 am ET.
A new update for Firmament was also published, with a video giving some insights into the development process.
If you enjoyed Ars Technica’s recent interview with Rand about the making of Myst, a nearly 2-hour long extended version came out on Friday.
The Digital Antiquarian wrote a detailed essay on the history of (the original) Myst, in the context of what people were playing in 1993.