Rand Miller, who with his brother Robyn, co-created a pair of hugely-bestselling games and founded Cyan, Inc, where he is CEO, will be the Imaginarium's Special Guest at the 2000 Cornerstone Festival. Myst and its sequel Riven were sensations on their release, sentencing avid gamesters to long, sleepless nights solving intricate puzzles and exploring the wondrous nooks and crannies of fully-imagined graphical worlds.

For over a year, Rand and company have been developing a new game, code-named "Mudpie", which unlike its two predecessors, is set in a completely new fictional world, and features 3D environments. To that end, Cyan purchased the company that had been doing the 3D work and moved the staff to their own headquarters in Spokane, Washington. Cyan has been hush-hush thus-far about what else exactly "Mudpie" will be, though there are rumors of Internet capabilities and promises of something "new and improved" indeed.

Rand was quoted in an article at Gamecenter.com saying the new game "won't be ready in six months, but we will have intriguing news and announcements in the next six months." Of course, six months from now will put us in mid-June, and since the Cornerstone Festival takes place in early July, you can bet Imaginarium attendees will be among the first to hear from Rand himself a few more details about Cyan's latest work-in-progress!