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Welcome. This wiki is the evolution of A look inside Riven, a research project aimed at understanding how the Riven game engine works. This effort is now being extended to the Myst engine as well as other Broderbund games which use Mohawk, and we hope this wiki will be its central organization hub. Would you like to contribute? Contact Tito, your help is welcome. Wiki accounts are given on demand. You might be interested in joining the mailing list as well.

Riven is Copyright © 1997 Cyan Worlds, Inc. All rights reserved. Riven, MYST, and Cyan are trademarks of Cyan Worlds, Inc.

Common things

• Mohawk archive format
• Mohawk Sounds
• Mohawk MIDI

Riven engine

• Overview
• List of resource types
• Scripts
• List of variables
• List of external commands

Myst engine

• Overview
• List of resources

Other Games

• Other Games

Reimplementations

Here are links to projects aimed at reimplementing the original Riven/Myst engines on modern platforms.

• Riven X - Native MacOS X port
• Point and Click - Java port
• MHK Player - wxWidgets port targeting Linux and Windows
• Riven Wahrk - Linux port
• Myst and Riven for ScummVM - ScummVM port (which supports a wide variety of platforms)