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So, the way it works is that every platform — Steam, Google, Apple, Amazon — takes a cut from each sale. Steam's, for example, is 30%. The 70% goes to Hosted Games, which then gives me a 25% cut of those 70%.

The only way for authors to get more is to buy our games through COG's website, which you can then connect to your omnibus app. On the website, that initial cut doesn't exist, so I get 25% of the original sale.

The Riven half of the new trophy icons for the Classic PS1 re-release! My favourite world to draw, and super fun getting to draw some alternate universe Gehns for a couple of the bad endings.

(The Myst trophy icons)

Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)

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the Victorians LIKED reading about women who won out over shitty men in their lives, even when that plotline reaffirmed a woman’s power and agency or put an active sexist in his place (ie Irene Adler besting Holmes)

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They both feature incredibly immersive worlds where puzzles, story and worldbuilding merge to the point you can't easily pinpoint where one ends and the other begins.

If some of the Myst fans here haven't for some reason checked out Outer Wilds, you absolutely should! I know everyone says the same thing: "don't look up anything about it, just play it!" and well they are right.

And for those who liked Outer Wilds, well Riven (1997) was the closest thing there was to Outer Wilds until Outer Wilds existed. It has a lot fewer puzzles, but the environmental storytelling and worldbuilding are unparalleled.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Even buying from Bandcamp in-between Bandcamp Fridays yields more profits to the artist than Spotify. Bandcamp charges artists 10% to 15% to host their music, compared to $0.003 and $0.005 per stream on Spotify.

That's right, you'd have to play the same song 200 times minimum to earn the artist $1, and 30% of that $1 earned goes to Spotify. Worse, Spotify pays the rights holder these royalties, not the artist. So if your band has a contract with a label, the LABEL gets paid, then the artist gets a percentage of that.

This article is from 2020 but illustrates the issue with an example. The spotlighted artist earned $4200 from Bandcamp via 700 customers in two days. The same artist earned $100 from roughly six years of streaming.

Also, while you can stream from Bandcamp, you can keep your music! Download the mp3 and it's yours forever.

Also also, there's no ads!

Also also also, there's no AI!

Aw gosh, thanks so much for the kind words! ♥️

SO there were some fan-made online resources (Kh'reestrehfah's D'ni Dictionary has been around since the year 2000, amazingly), and most importantly for me there was a D'ni language & grammar primer in the From Myst to Riven art book:

Along with that there were scattered online resources from Cyan themselves, or RAWA (Richard Watson, game designer at Cyan back in the day) would discuss the language and release new materials in CyanChat or the Riven Lyst, the ancient chatrooms/mailing lists for the fandom at the time.

If you want to learn the D'ni conlang nowadays, there are tons of resources out there: a good starting point would be the Guild of Archivists' pages on D'ni language and grammar, and there's a linguistics channel in the official Cyan Discord where you can ask pretty much anything and everything and someone'll point you in the right direction.