Cyan returned to produce what was billed as the final game in the series, discarding live action sequences embedded in prerendered graphics for a world rendered in real time. The actors' faces were turned into textures and mapped onto digital characters, with the actor's actions synchronized by motion capture. Shortly before release, Cyan closed down development, although this did not impact the release of the game; the company was able to rehire its employees a few weeks later, and continued to work on non-"Myst" projects and an attempted resurrection of "Uru"s multiplayer component, "". Servers paid for by donation were set up in 2010, and the game went open-source in 2011.