Riven: Can Cyan relive a legend?

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Cyan is nearing completion of its Riven: The Sequel to Myst adventure game, which promises some improvements on the most popular entertainment CD-ROM of all time. A clearer and richer storyline places the protagonist, Atrus, in search of his missing wife while his father attempts to maintain control of the strife-torn Riven Islands. The larger Cyan staff also has taken several steps to enhance visual detail while avoiding nearly indecipherable puzzle at the game's outset. Riven also distinguishes itself with significantly larger islands and stronger character interaction. Players are encouraged to to deepen their exploration of a fantastical world co-directed by Richard VanderWende, the visual director of Disney's 'Aladdin.' Cyan hired 12 artists and added 12 more SGI machines for the Riven project. QuickTime and Microsoft's Softimage 3D handle the animations and 3D graphics production respectively.

United States, Software, Product development, Product information, Design and construction, Computer games, Computer adventure games, Adventure game, Software product development, Cyan Worlds Inc., Riven: The Sequel To Myst (Adventure game)

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Real world

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Applied Graphics Technologies' (AGT's) digital image management and distribution service enables organizations to gain rapid access to their media assets . AGT's clients include Home Depot, GM, Sony Pictures and the National Basketball Association. AGT, the number one prepress company in the US, first collects its client's media assets such as transparencies, photos, QuarkXpress documents and MPEG-2 videos, and creates preview thumbnail images using the Digital Link System's Image Gateway and Photo Activist software. The software writes the files on RAID systems after automatically embedding metadata, including titles on the files. Digital Link's photo editor software then annotates, crops, rotates and color-corrects the images and creates bar codes and file names so that the images can be easily accessed. System users can now gain access to the image files using Web browsers.

Software Publishers, Commercial Photography, Energy Mgmt Software Pkgs (Micro), Commercial Photo & Graphic Arts Svcs, Services, Company services, Business services, Graphic arts industry, Image processing software, Applied Graphics Technologies Inc., Asset management, Technology asset management

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Corbis weaves CD-ROM stories

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Corbis produces impressive CD-ROMs, but has had difficulty attracting media attention. Founded by Bill Gates as Interactive Home Systems in 1989, the company originally set out to hoard digital images. However, the company did not find its way until 1994, when it was rechristened with its present name and began hiring professional photographers and stock-photo veterans. Corbis has produced five critically acclaimed CDs, including A Passion for Art and Leonardo da Vinci. Each CD costs $500,000 to $650,000 and takes a team of four a year to produce. Corbis also has exclusive and nonexclusive digital rights to millions of images, which corporate clients can download and purchase.

Management, Planning, Corbis Corp., Company Business Management

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