Game Chronology

(This was originally a thread on the MOUL forum)

This is an attempt to compile a complete and precise, real-life chronology of the releases of D’ni (Myst universe) games – a smaller scope than the Guild of Archivists’ in-character D’ni Timeline. Boldface denotes milestones, usually (but not always) required making new accounts.

1993-07-24 — Release of Myst
1997-10-31 — Release of Riven
2001-05-08 — Release of Exile
2002-03-xx — Opening of Choru
2002-12-xx — Closing of Choru
2002-12-06 — Public Beta
2003-01-xx — Opening of Ubiru
2003-08-xx — Closing of Ubiru
2003-11-11 — Release of Ages Beyond Myst
2003-11-17 — Opening of Prologue/Rehearsal (Ubisoft)
2004-01-02 — Clerical Error
2004-02-04 — Announcement of the closing of Prologue
2004-02-09 — Closing of Prologue
2004-03-23 — Release of To D’ni
2004-07-07 — Release of The Path of the Shell

2004-08-07 — Opening of Untìl Uru
2004-09-28 — Release of Revelation
2005-09-05 — Earliest confirmable Fan addition, by D’Lanor
2005-09-20 — Release of End of Ages
2005-10-xx — Original release of PyPRP
2006-02-15 — Opening of D’mala
2006-05-09 — Opening of the beta-test of MO:UL (Nuru)
2006-05-28 — Opening of the limited Preview of MO:UL (Sneak Peek or Ajar); closing of the beta-test of MO:UL
2006-12-12 — MO:UL Preview open to all GameTap subscribers
2006-12-19 — Official closing of D’mala (a.k.a. the Great Scream)

2006-12-20 — Soft launch of MO:UL (Rehearsal)
2007-01-18 — Announcement of the MacOS porting of MO:UL
2007-01-19 — Release of the Eder Delin age
2007-02-05 — Closing of D’mala and Untìl Uru
2007-02-15 — Official opening of MO:UL (GameTap)
2007-02-15 — Release of the Eder Tsogal age
2007-03-01 — Release of the Negilahn age
2007-03-15 — Release of the Dereno age
2007-04-05 — Release of the Payiferen age
2007-04-19 — Release of the Tetsonot age
2007-05-19 — “Scars”
2007-05-24 — Release of the Minkata age
2007-06-23 — “A New Light”
2007-06-23 — Release of the Watcher’s Pub
2007-06-26 — Release of the Er’cana age
2007-07-30 — “Familiar Voices”
2007-07-31 — Release of the Kirel age
2007-08-02 — Release of the Jalak age
2007-08-xx — Founding of the modern Guild of Writers
2007-09-09 — Release of the Guild Pubs
2007-09-10 — “Deception”
2007-09-xx — Founding of the modern Guild of Messengers
2007-11-01 — “Exodus”
2007-11-02 — Release of the Ahnonay age
2007-11-03 — Release of the K’veer age
2007-11-05 — Release of the Myst age
2007-11-05 — Yeesha’s last appearance in the Cavern (transcript)
2008-02-04 — Announcement of the closing of MO:UL
2008-04-10 — Closing of MO:UL
2008-12-22 — Beginning of the fan-made Starry Expanse Project

2010-02-04 — Laxman’s post Activity in the Cavern? (backup)
2010-02-08 — Opening of MO:ULagain (Cyan)
2011-04-06 — Release of the CWE source code
2011-04-11 — H-uru fork of CWE code announced
2011-04-15 — Build 902 released
2011-08-01 — Opening of The Open Cave shard
2011-12-11 — Opening of the OpenUru.org Minkata shard
2012-02-04 — Opening of the Guild of Writers’ Gehn shard
2012-02-09 — Build 905 released
2012-03-26 — Build 906 released
2012-05-29 — Build 912 released
2013-02-01 — Opening of the Destiny shard
2013-02-06 — Announcement of the fan-made SAND project
2013-06-07 — Original release of the fan-made Seltani project
2013-06-12 — Build 918 released
2014-02-20 — Announcement of the fan-made DIRT: Uru Live project

2014-09-18 — The Great Crash
2014-09-26 — Re-opening of MO:ULagain
2015-02-03 — Build 918.0.1 released
2015-02-03 — First fan-made clothing added
2015-07-11 — Original release of Korman
2015-12-22 — Build 918.OpenUru#131 released
2016-03-xx — Account creation disabled
2016-11-16 — Build 918.OpenUru#131 (a & b) released
2017-06-07 — Build 918.OpenUru=138 released
2017-07-26 — Account creation back online
2019-10-28 — MO:ULa assets open for fan modification
2019-11-21 — Build 918.OpenUru=139 released
2020-01-22 — Announcement of the closure of the MOULa forum
2020-02-20 — Build 918.OpenUru#153 released
2020-02-27 — Release of Chiso Preniv, the fan Age Library
2020-03-07 — Release of Veelay Tsahvahn, the Memorial Age
2020-08-21 — Release of Chiso Preniv, GoMe Pub & Veelay Tsahvahn to MOULa