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During Development


This is a copy of an email sent to the Riven Lyst by RAWA, Richard A. Watson, Cyan programmer and ultimate D'ni historian. The words in italics are the questions from fans. The plain gray print is written by Richard Watson.


From: Richard A. Watson
To: Riven Spoiler Lyst
Subject: Re: [rls] Names of Islands
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998

>This has probably been discussed before, but I've never been quite
>sure what the *official* names are for each of the islands (or even if
>there *is* an official name for each).
>
>RAWA, are there "official" names for each island?


Here's a description I wrote about a year ago:
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Each island (or Age in some cases), had a one letter abbreviation.

This being the spoiler lyst, I'm assuming you'll all recognise this
diagram enough that further description will be unneeded:



The names used during development:

B = Book (Assembly) Island
T = Temple Island
P = Prison Island
G = Garden Island (though Gehn destroyed the Gardens when he terraformed
the plateaus)
J = Jungle Island
O = Gehn's Office (Age 233)
R = Rebel Age (the Hive)
A = All (assets which are needed by multiple Islands)

So when you're snooping through the CD's and you see oDATA, tDATA, etc.
you'll know which island's data that file contains...

RAWA

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When Mr. Watson says "snooping through the CD's," he means using one of the Riven Movie Viewer programs to look at the contents of the Data files on the CD's or DVD. These programs are available in the Riven Guild download section.


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