02-20-2013, 03:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-16-2020, 06:45 AM by Emor D'ni Lap.)
Thanks, B.A. - I could not agree more! Ms. Hummel's clearly a dedicated Myst fan who knows her stuff visually. I wish she would become an Agebuilder herself!
Part of the whole Myst mystique is what seems to be an innate human fascination with decay: the mystery of implied histories, stories that may never be told but which we might tease out of the rubble - if we explorers are skilled and inquisitive enough!
Entire books have been written about this fascination, which I think should have a name of its own. Artificial ruins (paper on this topic) have been built all over the globe in order to create this sense of mystery.
(one example, in a panoramic tour format that gamers should feel comfortable with)
There are websites dedicated to images of decay, though most focus on relatively modern urban environments: Forbidden Places, Opacity, etc.
And Flickr hosts several photographic groups of this sort, such as DKP Group and RotSquad...or you can run through all such groups ...an enormous visual inventory of rust and rubble!
Update 2018: And next year there's even going to be a conference on the topic! http://aesthetics.decay.lcir.co.uk/
And another update 2020: Reddit group Abandoned Porn (no, it's NOT Porn that's been abandoned - it's totally Safe For Work! :^)
Part of the whole Myst mystique is what seems to be an innate human fascination with decay: the mystery of implied histories, stories that may never be told but which we might tease out of the rubble - if we explorers are skilled and inquisitive enough!
Entire books have been written about this fascination, which I think should have a name of its own. Artificial ruins (paper on this topic) have been built all over the globe in order to create this sense of mystery.
(one example, in a panoramic tour format that gamers should feel comfortable with)
There are websites dedicated to images of decay, though most focus on relatively modern urban environments: Forbidden Places, Opacity, etc.
And Flickr hosts several photographic groups of this sort, such as DKP Group and RotSquad...or you can run through all such groups ...an enormous visual inventory of rust and rubble!
Update 2018: And next year there's even going to be a conference on the topic! http://aesthetics.decay.lcir.co.uk/
And another update 2020: Reddit group Abandoned Porn (no, it's NOT Porn that's been abandoned - it's totally Safe For Work! :^)