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Rand also worked on the game"s sequel, Riven, and later reprised his role as protagonist Atrus in Myst III: Exile, Myst IV: Revelation, Myst V: End of Ages, realMyst, and Uru. He also co-authored Myst novels The Book of Atrus, The Book of Ti"Ana, and The Book of Doctorate"ni. He remains the Chief Executive Officer of Cyan Worlds.
Prior to the success of Myst, Rand and Robyn Miller released The Manhole, Spelunx, and Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel.
Following the success of, Miller spent nearly seven years spearheading development of Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, an online massively-multiplayer extension of the Myst franchise. Miller noted that "the essence of Uru was people love to explore and the fault in the one-off games is you get to explore until it stops.
Well, what if it didn"t stop? What if the worlds continued?"
Upon its release in 2003, Uru was a commercial failure. Online services were ceased by original publisher Ubisoft in 2004.
Despite this earlier setback, Cyan Worlds announced in Los Angeles at E3 2006 that they would be partnering with GameTap to bring Uru Live online again.
On February 15, 2007, Myst Online: Uru Live was released. Uru"s failure caused Cyan Worlds to briefly cease operations. Miller appeared shocked by Uru Live"s ultimate failure, as reflected in his letter to the Uru Live community, which he wrote to explain why the game had to be shut down for an indefinite amount of time.
In a previous interview, Miller had stated that finance from outside investment, not technology, was the reason for the failed project, "I think the biggest failure was running out of money, and thus running out of time, and thus losing control of our own destiny.
Number matter what promises are made or common goals are agreed upon, whoever pays the bills has the final say."
On October 17, 2013, Miller announced the development of, intended to serve as the spiritual successor to the Myst series, via a Kickstarter campaign.