Category Archives: Events

Special Guests

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Hello! We are finally ready to start announcing some special guests for this year.

Special Guests

We’re ready to start announcing guests for this year. As always, all current and previously announced guests can be found on our Special Guests page.
  • Katie “Kha’tie” Postma is a long-time fixture within the Myst and Mysterium community. She is now the Social Media Manager for the Myst Documentary.
  • Philip Shane is an award winning documentary filmmaker, working on such films as Being Elmo and The Beatles Revolution. Myst fans know him for his upcoming Myst Documentary.
  • Ryan “greydragon” Warzecha is Cyan’s resident tiki bar authority. He was Head of Developer Relations for Cyan Ventures, and was recently promoted to Associate Designer on Firmament.
We have several more confirmed guests to announce very soon. We’re still finalizing bios and photos, so they weren’t quite ready in time for this post.

Meow Wolf Sensory Advisory

If you are planning to go to Meow Wolf, we would recommend anyone with sensory concerns take a look at the “Light & Noise Sensitivity” section of Meow Wolf’s Accessibility page for further information.

May Community Prompt

This month we received several great entries for the topic “Villains”, and we have our first repeat winner: Grayson aka redwoodrroad provided this excellent image of Gehn. As always, you can see his and others’ works on our Discord server.
Villains - Gehn

Family Feud Reminder

Our survey for Family Feud is still open here. Remember there are no wrong answers, and the more responses we receive the better this will be, so please take a few minutes to give whatever answers you can come up with!
That’s it for now, but as mentioned, we will have quite a few more guests to announce in the coming weeks!

Dan
Mysterium 2022 Chair

COVID & Meow Wolf

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Hello everyone! We have a few announcements to share.

COVID

As a reminder, we will be requiring COVID-19 vaccines to attend Mysterium this year. Our COVID page now has a bunch of information on how this will be handled. If a question is still unanswered, there’s a good chance we’re still working out the details.

Meow Wolf

We are planning an optional excursion to the interactive art exhibit in Denver called Meow Wolf: Convergence Station. We’ll be heading out there for a 7:20 PM entrance the Friday of Mysterium – August 12. Information is available on their website, but it’s better seen than described. Tickets are available for $35 through our Registration page until June 30. Note: all ticket purchases will become nonrefundable after this date, regardless of any other refunds allowed.

April Community Prompt

This month we received several great entries for the topic “Atrus Family Road Trip”, and the winner was this alternate timeline image involving Gehn being around for Sirrus and Achenar, by Grayson aka redwoodrroad. As always, you can see his and others’ works on our Discord server.
Atrus Family Road Trip

Submission Reminder

Submissions for the activity book and for events are open for just over another week, until May 22. See our submissions page for details.

Registration Reminder

There are still a couple days to purchase an early registration for $25 (or premium with a t-shirt for $40)! After this Sunday, May 15, the price will increase to $30, and t-shirts will no longer be available for presale, although some may be available at the door.

That’s it for now. We’re working out some details with Cyan and will hopefully have some special guests to announce soon!

Dan
Mysterium 2022 Chair

Hotel

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Happy Spring! We finally have a big announcement several people have asked about: we have a hotel set for this year!

Hotel

First, the big news: we have signed a hotel contract, so you can start booking rooms! Our hotel this year is the Holiday Inn Denver East in the Central Park neighborhood, east of downtown Denver. The Mysterium rate, which includes free parking, will be $121/night. The discounted rate will be available until July 20. See all the details on our Location page.

Quabitats

An important announcement from Quabitat for Squeemanity Director Kelly “Rayne” Coston:

Is your home feeling like it’s missing something? Maybe you need a friend? Well, you’re in luck! Due to a sudden uptick in the squee and quab population from one of Atrus’ breeding experiments that went awry, Quabitat for Squeemanity has a nice variety of pets for you to adopt! Here at Quabitat for Squeemanity, we care about the safety and happiness of your pet. So if you stop by and adopt a pet today, we’ll throw in a free, customizable habitat! That’s right! It’s free. You get to choose the patterns of the walls and floor of your pet’s new home and supply it with a plethora of decorations, customized for the optimum happiness for your pet. So stop by today and adopt a quab or squee!

Family Feud

A common thread in recent surveys has been that people like having interactive events. With that, we’re planning a Family Feud style game show for this year’s convention. However, if you’re familiar with the show, you’ll know we need survey responses. If you have a few minutes, please fill out the questions here (there are no wrong answers!). You don’t have to answer all questions, but the more responses we get the better it will be, so try to fill out any you can come up with an answer for.

Activity Book Submissions

A reminder that we’re still taking submissions for this year’s activity book. Additionally, after checking publishing needs, we have decided to extend the deadline a month to May 22. This is the same date as the deadline for event submissions. See our Submissions page for more information.

Until next time,
Dan
Mysterium 2022 Chair

Almost Time!

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Mysterium is less than a week away! We have even more guests to announce, as well as some last minute information you’ll want to know.

Schedule

We published the schedule a couple weeks ago, but just in case anyone hasn’t seen it yet, check it out on our Schedule page. Links to the streams for each event on Twitch and YouTube will be up there before Mysterium begins.

Myst IV Panel Questions

Reminder: we’re taking questions in advance for the Myst IV panel featuring Meinert Hansen and Brian Wrench. We cannot guarantee that we will take any questions during the panel itself, so if you have something to ask, submit it by Thursday, July 15, using this form.

Mysterium Shirts

You may have seen a cryptic announcement regarding a couple t-shirt designs in Myst Online. Well, the second of those is the Mysterium 2021 t-shirt! All you have to do is login to your Relto any time between July 16th and July 23rd and the shirt will be in your wardrobe.

Special Guests

Yep, there are even more special guests!
  • Eric Anderson is a Cyan veteran, involved with Uru, Myst, and Obduction
  • Blake Bjerke rejoined Cyan last year and is continuing work on both Myst 2020 and Firmament
  • Abner Coimbre previously worked at the Kennedy Space Center and now helps to streamline work for the team at Cyan
  • Brandon Collins started in QA at Cyan and moved to development for Obduction, Myst 2020, and Firmament
  • Mark “Chogon” DeForest started with Cyan way back in 1995 and has since been involved in almost every Cyan project
  • Patrick “Doobes” Dulebohn has been creating content for Uru since 2007 and helps others learn how to create their own ages
  • Hannah Gamiel has been involved in business development, production, and programming, and is currently the Development Director at Cyan
  • Eleri Hamilton is a leader at Inkworks Productions and continues to work on the Unwritten role-playing game
  • Veronica Hamilton is the primary developer for Unwritten and runs the game monthly on Twitch
  • Mike Hines helped create the engine used for realMyst and Uru and is now an Art Lead at Oculus
  • John “Marten” Johns originally joined Uru Obsession in 2003 and now volunteers for the OpenUru project
  • Adam “Hoikas” Johnson is a core developer for the open source Uru client
  • Karl Johnson has been with Cyan since Uru as a tester, producer, and engineer
  • Keith “Tweek” Lord has been tweaking Uru since 2004. He also loves waffles.
  • Autumn Palfenier is an animator with Cyan who has been involved in a wide range of projects from indie to AAA
  • Darryl “dpogue/Paradox” Pogue is focused on porting Uru to both MacOS and Linux
  • Katie “Kha’tie” Postma is a fixture in the Myst community, formerly with Cyan and now Social Media Manager for the Myst Documentary.
  • Paul “rarified” Richards is a coordinator for fan content and code changes in Myst Online
  • Derrick Robinson has been in Cyan’s art department for more than a decade and is currently Art Director
  • Bill Slease served multiple roles with Cyan ranging from art to game design to content direction
  • Josh Van Veldhuizen has been with Cyan since 2008 and is currently QA Manager
That’s it for announcements. We hope you’ll join us online next weekend!

–The Mysterium Committee

Event Submissions Now Open

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Greetings!

We hope everyone had a wonderful start to the new year. To kick off 2020, we have a few brief updates to share.

Event Submissions

Event submissions are now open! As always, Mysterium is a success thanks to the wonderful events and presentations from our attendees. To keep things interesting, we like to offer a variety of group activities, fan presentations, panels, open mic time, and more.

This year, we will again offer time for “Microtalks.” If you have something you’d like to present, but don’t want to make a full 30-60 presentation, try a microtalk. We want to provide everyone with accessible opportunities to share their ideas or work, so we hope this will be a useful option for attendees. Visit the event submissions page for more details.

Event submissions are due no later than Sunday, May 31st, 2020.

T-Shirt Design Submissions

As a reminder, T-shirt design submissions are currently open and will be accepted until Sunday, February 16th, 2020. We encourage you to include elements of this year’s theme (Sirrus vs Achenar/Red vs Blue/Haven and Spire) or host city in your design. The creator of the selected design will receive a free Mysterium 2020 T-shirt. For full details, please visit the T-Shirt Design Submissions page.

Other Submissions

As a general reminder, we are also accepting submissions for enamel pin designs, activity book pages, and our Writing & Art Table. Check the Mysterium 2020 Submissions Overview page for full details and deadlines for all of these.

Location Updates

We recognize that attendees may already be pricing out travel options. To assist with your planning, we recommend that attendees flying to Washington, D.C choose Reagan National Airport (DCA) as their destination, if possible, for better public transportation connections. Additional location details will be available soon.

That’s all from us for now. We’ll have more news for everyone soon!

– Mysterium 2020 Triumvirate: Capella, Drew, and Dan