It’s not every day you have a chance to talk to one of your childhood icons, but writing for PlayStation LifeStyle has given me many such opportunities, like my chat last month with Myst creator Rand Miller. Myst was the game that elevated computer entertainment for me, and made me realize that games were more than just children’s toys or silly hobbies. It would be years before that realization took a firm hold, but Myst was always the catalyst that started my fundamental appreciation of games as something more. What Myst did for me personally was nothing compared to how it evolved the medium and helped to push CD-ROM drives for computers to the general public. It could be argued that Myst is the video game equivalent of The Beatles, inspiring future game creators and setting a foundation on which many modern games have been built. It’s been more than 23 years since Myst’s release, and creator Rand Miller is not resting on the laurels of early success. In 2016, he released the Kickstarter backed Obduction for PC, a spiritual successor to his CD-ROM classic, with an Oculus VR version that quickly followed. 2017 will see the launch of Obduction on PlayStation 4 and PSVR, the first time that Cyan has ever worked natively on consoles (previous console ports were not handled in house). I got the opportunity for a face to face with Miller about his experience in game development, people that he’s inspired over the years, and those that have inf...