Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a Match
We’ve pulled together a few more images to share with you guys of the work being done by our various art teams.
Not much else to report, other than that things are progressing very well around here, and that we’re looking for more help!
April 21st, 2016 at 2:14 pm
Nice !
April 21st, 2016 at 6:45 pm
Looking good ! Keep up the hard work, you guys have no idea how excited I am for this. (:
April 22nd, 2016 at 2:32 am
Sweet! Do you know the tusks are missing on the whark?
April 22nd, 2016 at 8:00 pm
“The beginnings of our wahrk modelâ€. They know.
April 23rd, 2016 at 7:33 am
Sorry, I didn’t see there was some text with the pictures! (And I spelled wahrk wrong, so sorry again!)
April 23rd, 2016 at 10:20 am
“Whark†is the spelling used by Cyan. It isn’t wrong.
April 24th, 2016 at 3:47 am
So both ‘whark’ and ‘wahrk’ are correct? I thought only one was correct and the other was a single spelling error in the game…
April 23rd, 2016 at 7:17 am
Tusks, what tusks! Are you saying that there are tusks on the wahrk?! Who knew!! 😉
April 24th, 2016 at 10:58 am
Cyan consistently spelled it “whark†while developing Riven. An exception was the “wahrk†in Catherine’s journal. I suspect that that was a typo, but fans decided that it was actually the right spelling. Since most online content about the creature is written by fans, the spelling “wahrk†predominates. I would therefore consider both to be valid spellings.
April 25th, 2016 at 3:42 am
Okay, thanks!
April 25th, 2016 at 11:38 pm
And perhaps somewhat oddly, it doesn’t really change the pronunciation either way you spell it, either. In Cyan’s defence, it’s also worth noting that Catherine’s first language was Rivenese, and so may have misspelled the word in English. Also, before the invention of the mechanised printing press, spelling was very variable anyway. Even (especially) in English.
More than likely it was a Typo, but there are a couple of possible retcons for the mistake.
April 26th, 2016 at 3:04 am
What will be used in RealRiven? Will the supposed typo be corrected? And what does Cyan say about the spelling? They could end the uncertainty about the spelling of these creatures…
April 26th, 2016 at 10:03 am
We’ll be replicating all spellings exactly as they are seen in the original game, supposed typos and all.
April 27th, 2016 at 4:44 am
Okay, you also don’t have to choose which spelling to use then! Clever! 🙂
April 28th, 2016 at 5:31 am
I also have another question: when I first played Riven and reached the whark statue on Village Island, I discovered the secret entrance to the statue by pulling something on top of one of the two metal sphere-things, but that led to reaching certain places too early. I used the submarine in the village to go directly to the prison cell, leaving the sub on a place I couldn’t get back to, but never went into the classroom to learn the D’ni numbers so I had to start again and I was spoiled about the secret entrance and some other stuff. Will you add something that you can only open the statue from the forrest side if you already came through from the other side, so people who haven’t played the game yet, wouldn’t accidentaly open it and focus on the wrong stuff on the wrong moment like I did?
April 28th, 2016 at 10:11 pm
There is no too early or too late, that’s the whole idea of Riven 😉 You just needed to climb back up the ladder and up to the top of the gallows to get back to the sub.
April 29th, 2016 at 4:16 am
I thought you can’t get down on the gallows, it’s a one-way up… So that leaves the sub stuck at the bottom of the gallows
April 29th, 2016 at 8:41 pm
You can’t return to the sub from the top of the gallows, but the sub is reset to the top of the cliff when you leave the island.
April 30th, 2016 at 7:08 am
Really? I never noticed! I’ll check it out soon!
May 4th, 2016 at 4:43 am
I checked and it’s true! Why didn’t I discover that the first time? But entering the wahrk statue too early triggers the cutscene with the little girl in the forest too early, and you can trigger an impossibility by calling the mag-lev to Jungle Island, going to Survey Island through Boiler Island and see Gehn flee from you in a mag-lev that shouldn’t be there. Weird.
May 4th, 2016 at 8:31 am
The cut scene with the girl is meant to play then. It is not too early.
There is no impossibility about the mag-lev. In the time it takes you to go to Survey Island via Boiler Island, Gehn’s scribe (not Gehn himself) has ample opportunity to push the call button or ride the mag-lev to get it back to Survey Island.
May 5th, 2016 at 6:24 am
True, but I don’t think Cyan wanted us to discover the entrane to the wahrk statue so early. I didn’t know it wasn’t Gehn on Survey Island, it was just a guy wearing a lot of robes, and I assumed it was Gehn… Riven not being on HD graphics on the cutscenes on iPad doesn’t really help…
May 7th, 2016 at 8:38 am
If Cyan didn’t want us to discover it, they could have disabled it until we come in the other way.
May 8th, 2016 at 7:21 am
Don’t forget the button is very well-hidden! Unfortunately, I saw the potential of the knob on the sphere being a hidden button…
May 4th, 2016 at 9:10 am
Please use the forum for discussions 😉
July 10th, 2016 at 8:43 am
You guys are okay right? No update in almost 3 months, starting to get worried.