Rand Miller (born January 17, 1959, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) co-founded Cyan (now Cyan Worlds) with brother Robyn Miller and became famous from the unexpected success of their computer game Myst, which remained the number one-selling game for the remainder of the 1990s. Rand also worked on the game's sequel, Riven, and later realMyst and Ages Beyond Myst.

Still CEO, he is now less involved with working out storyline, gameplay and programming, instead focusing on managing the project his company works on. As a sideline, you will find him acting Atrus in the Myst sequels which are no longer done by Cyan, including Exile and Revelation—even though he claims that he dislikes this job, and that he feels to be the wrong person to do it.

Views

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Miller, being a son of an Anabaptist minister, maintains the religious views that are traits of his family, which is part of the reason there is no major violence, sexual or otherwise potentially offensive content in Cyan's games—the experience should be as rich as possible, while keeping distracting matters out.

Miller is also a known Apple Macintosh fan ^*.

The Uru project

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During the almost 7-year-long Ages Beyond Myst project, Miller faced the ever-changing Internet as a new way to stay in contact with Myst's manifold fan base, but also as a risky business: in interviews before the Ages Beyond Myst launch, he kept stressing the importance of the then-growing broadband internet access market, following the general optimism and expecting Ages Beyond Myst to be the one integral part of the game. Maybe out of necessity, he remained positive about using Live as a "never-ending" place, with frequently-added and changed content and a community in the hundreds of thousands to "live" in it.

Thus, the person shocked the most by Uru Live's failure could very well be Rand Miller, as reflected by the letter to the community^* written to try and explain why Uru Live had to be shut down for an indefinite amount of time, quite possibly forever. However, it was announced in Los Angeles at E3 2006 that Cyan Worlds would be partnering with GameTap to bring Uru Live to life.

External links

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• wohba.com is purportedly Miller's amazing stuff blog

Interviews

• WorldVillage.com Gamezone interview about Myst
• Imaginarium interview after Riven
• The Adrenaline Vault interview about "Mudpie" - what later became Uru at The Adrenaline Vault
• Tiscali UK interview about Uru's release
• JustAdventure interview about Uru's release
• Ubisoft / MystWorlds.com Q&A chat session during Uru Live launch

1959 births | Living people | Computer and video game designers | Computer and video game actors

Rand Miller