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Of course!

<-- happily married woman.

Check Steam. That's where I got my copy. And Cyan keeps it relatively updated.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/244430/

Both. Infinite possibilities.

Yep, you nailed it. It stems from the "Santa Clause" theory, which is a scientific theory that runs something along the lines of "there's an infinite number of parallel universes. Anything is, quite literally, possible. Because it already exists." Linking Books were just a bridge...

The irony (is that the correct word) is that Riven wasn't originally separate islands. They drifted apart over time. So how was a mining cart built with a tunnel in the water... When I think about it, I think about the chicken/egg scenario.

Did they change something in the rebooted Masterpiece edition of realMYST? Did they actually re-record the acting? Yes, they re-recorded his performance for realMyst. For your other comment, you're correct. They used a composite of green-screened video on a 3d environment. Which is the other reason...

A quick answer is no. We don't use a separate texture map for each. Mainly because of the game load time. We have to balance texture file size with the number of textures used in the game.

Not sure if you can call these "wallpapers" exactly, but I did take some pretty screenshots of realMyst while playing around today.

I can't tell you how much this is going to help the art team. We spend hours asking "hey what's going on with these three pixels over there?" "I think that's a bolt. Or maybe it's a cupcake." So yes, this is going to be very helpful to figure out some of the smaller details.