My latest poster for Riven, designed to match my Myst poster from last year, is up on the Cyan store (link in source)! This was an absolute love letter to the original game—a beast to finish with all those tiny little walkways in the village, but totally worth it.
Suggest-A-Sketch - Wahrk
Ahhhhhh the many, many hours I spent in the late 90's Bothering This Beast. I'm so glad that glass was thick.
Suggestion by Erich Beyer on Patreon, and thanks for encouraging me to fulfill a small promise with this one. Last year at Mysterium I had Claire Hummel (AKA Shoomlah) herself, now the Lead Visual Designer at Cyan, look me dead in the eyes and challenge me to start drawing some Myst fanart because there isn't enough in the world. This week I learned that drawing the critters is really, really fun, actually. >>
And I do have a Myst OC I've been meaning to elaborate on....
HEY EVERYONE! I’ve entered into Cyanworlds’ Riven Cake contest on Twitter. Here are the cakes I’ve made.
This golden beetle viewer is a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate ganache covering with fontant for details. The shell is white chocolate painted gold with edible paint and the wings are isomalt.
This one I did with the leftover cake pieces. Its a Whark statue with choco-fudge cake, white chocolate ganache, and chocolate fondant as the main covering, with plain fondant and edible paint for details.
Here are the references from in game I used. If you’ve never played Riven, I cannot recommend it higher. It was the first videogame I ever played and it still holds up today.
If you like these cakes, go check out all the other entries people have done under the #CyanCake2 on Twitter.
Also voting is now underway for the winner, I’ll provide a link to their voting page. Please select your favorite entry!
Please vote for the cake that best represents our competition's theme: The Artifacts of Riven! Or simply marvel at the creativity each of th
EDIT: I WON FIRST PLACE!!!
Thank you all who cast your vote, this was a fun experience!