You sure deserves to work at Cyan Worlds!

AND you make amazing photoshop pics…those pics are VERY cool,really brings the idea to life.

I think there should extrem changes to MOUL,too,in order for it to do well.I have a list of them,only watiting for Cyan Worlds to be able to do anything like them.If only I could photoshop like you!

(even though my ideas are not so extrem as yours)

Posted my ideas… finally….

@Whil
Technically they already hired me

@Marten
What new problems did I bring up that I glossed over? I’d like to address them if I can.
I like the concept of a little pseudo battle of conversation at the beginning between Zandi and a DRC member, it kind of says to the explorer “Why are there differences between these 2 people?” which raises further questions and mysteries. However given that the DRC went to the Yeesha camp (which was an eventual given I guess but Cyan lost a lot to work with there) that kind of conversation doesn’t really work.

@Al
Well you and I come from a similar vein of fans so I’m not surprised our vision of Uru is so similar, I really enjoyed your recent posts about Uru (especially the UU entry that was spot on in my opinion).

@TS
Prologue was nice, there was that mystery there was that emotion, the closest MOUL came with it in regards to emotion was in Scars when Rose and Wheely died. As for Mystery MOUL didn’t really have any not to the degree of Prologue.
Technology wise, sometimes I feel that Cyan coded themselves into a corner but the most I know about the tech is from talking to people like Paradox and co.

@Erik
What I do like about the Yeesha aspect is that even though you are forced into being her lackey, at the end of it you are presented a choice. You can either thing she is great and follow her or you can think she manipulative and untrustworthy and go other to another side.

Going down through the shaft would be so awesome that I can’t find the right words to describe that feeling.

Your concept makes me really excited and, may Uru ever return, I hope Cyan will carry out some things mentioned in your concept. If they had released the full shaft, the tunnels and a way to travel to Ae’gura, people would have been more excited about Uru than ever!

Still, I remember those two days in 2003, running around all over the place and wondering just what is going on here. Listening to Yeesha’s speeches and deciding if I wanted to take sides or not. And I was extremely close to doing so before Shutdown I (even if that ’side’ was the neutral stance of Safety First).

There are *very* few times that I’ve had that sense of wonder here, and that emotional tug (admittedly sometimes a hard yank) was what pulled me along. I suppose that could be part of its mystery, but it was a bit more than that to me.

That may explain why I was so UN-excited through MOUL. I’m trying very hard to remember anything that really tugged at me the past year - I just can’t find one. In fact, the events of the first few episodes tugged me in ways that didn’t at all ‘feel’ right, at which point I dropped out of sight to think about it. Overall, bad timing, but that was typical to my actual life last year.

I also want to see things turned back around. I like what I see here, and will keep an eye out while working on my own projects (which admittedly no longer involve Uru directly).

My main perennial gripe was the network code, btw; Every time I explained system updates in Uru (to those who understood such things) they would cringe.

–TSK

Of course, my plans were colored by wanting to take on the insanity of doing the whole thing from scratch in a completely different engine entirely, with netcode and such written from the gound up, full dx9 support for bloom and other pretifications, and brand new areas and Ages to go along with it (since hacking the old content into a new engine would not only be difficult but largely illegal). Attempting to stay on the “slightly” side of illegal pending approval (which I seriously doubt I’d ever get), I ditched all of the content and story save for the DRC (who may or may not have returned), the Shaft, the KI, the Nexus system, Marker missions, and the Lake re-lighting project. All of the retained stuff has been seriously re-worked in my head though. I agree with Paradox, though… Uru needs its mystery back, and I think you and I and many others are doing everything we can to make that happen.

I think I need to get my thoughts put together and into an actual blog post at some point. Curse you for beating me to the punch!

The only part I dislike is the Victor on the Imager idea. A more workable solution would be, I think, to have a counterpart to Zandi lurking about. When the player comes up to Zandi, the DRC-supporter could also walk up and interrupt Zandi, and try instead to convince the explorer to go the DRC way. That NPC could then give hints to an alternate puzzle necessary to solve to enter the volcano and begin the descent. Each NPC could make clear to the player that only one puzzle needs solving.