If one person can create a Myst age in Blender and drop it in a modified game, why cannot another create a Myst style age in THERE or Second Life? After all CC is not the MOUL game engine. If that is permitted then up comes the question of, ‘if new fan created content in one system is allowed, why not fan created content in other systems?’ Think about that. Of course this would change the complexion of the contest away from ‘remembered’. There is considerable discussion about whether this rule should remain in effect. The interesting part of the possible rule changes being discussed is the current exclusion of images from fan created ages. Places like the Myst-Uru like builds in THERE and Second Life are excluded at this point as those would not be ‘remembered’ images in the sense of the contest. Excluding the historic pictures because some were not in early games for the sake of fairness would defeat the purpose of the contest. There is nothing to be done about that now. Some were never there and others did not think to save images. Some people have old photos (screen captures) and submit them.

But, the goal is to find the best pictures of a ‘remembered’ Uru. Those running it have made every effort to be fair. Fairness is not THE goal in this contest. One must remember that many contests have a purpose. The same ‘not available issue’ is true for Prologe and MOUL. And yes, there are questions about whether some people are running UU servers but that is another story.

Until-Uru-servers are off line so historic images from days past are used. Some of these games are not available at this time. Without a live online game the CD/DVD based Myst games are being used. This contest is a continuation of the contest that ran in-game, thus the ‘remembered’.

The rules of the contest are here: PhotoQuest Remembered Rules. The ‘How To’ for participating can be found on the GoMe forum in PhotoQuest Remembered. There is a thread on GoMa here: Maintainers’ Myst-Uru Photos Thread. The Guild of Messengers (GoMe) runs a monthly photo contest for Uru fans.

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