Rand Miller
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Rand Miller co-founded Cyan Productions (now Cyan Worlds) with brother Robyn Miller (the two Miller Brothers) and became famous from the unexpected success of their computer game Myst, which remained the number one-selling game for the remainder of the 1990s. Rand also worked on the game's sequel, Riven, and later realMyst and Uru (see below).
Still CEO, he is now less involved with working out storyline, gameplay and programming, instead focusing on managing the project his company works on. As a sideline, you will find him acting Atrus in the Myst sequels which are no longer done by Cyan, including Myst III: Exile and Myst IV: Revelation—even though he claims that he dislikes this job, and that he feels to be the wrong person to do it.
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Miller maintains the religious views that are traits of his family, which is part of the reason you will never find major violence, sexual or otherwise potentially offensive content in Cyan's games—the experience should be as rich as possible, while keeping distracting matters out.
The Uru project
During the almost 7-year-long Uru project, Miller faced the ever-changing Internet as a new way to stay in contact with Myst's manifold fan base, but also as a risky business: in interviews before the Uru launch, he kept stressing the importance of the then-growing broadband internet access market, following the general optimism and expecting Uru Live to be the one integral part of the game. Maybe out of necessity, he remained positive about using Live as a "never-ending" place, with frequently-added and changed content and a community in the hundreds of thousands to "live" in it.
Thus, the person shocked the most by Uru Live's failure could very well be Rand Miller, as reflected by the letter to the community[1] (http://www.cyanworlds.com/?page=letter) written to try and explain why Uru Live had to be shut down for an indefinite amount of time, quite possibly forever.
External links
- Rand Miller's personal home page (http://www.millerbitz.com)
- wohba.com is purportedly Miller's amazing stuff blog (http://www.wohba.com)
Interviews
- WorldVillage.com Gamezone interview about Myst (http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/gamezone/html/reviews/myst.htm)
- Imaginarium interview after Riven (http://www.cornerstonemag.com/imaginarium/features/rand.html)
- Adrenaline Vault interview about "Mudpie" - what later became Uru (http://www.avault.com/news/displaynews.asp?story=5222001-154058)
- Tiscali UK interview about Uru's release (http://www.tiscali.co.uk/games/myst/features.html)
- JustAdventure interview about Uru's release (http://www.justadventure.com/Interviews/UruRandMiller/UruRandMiller.shtm)
- Ubisoft / MystWorlds.com Q&A chat session during Uru Live launch (http://www.uruobsession.com/?page=Chat%20With%20Rand%20Miller)