Presto Studios was the computer game development company of the 1990s, especially famous for its The Journeyman Project series and its 2001 sequel to Cyan's Myst series, Myst III: Exile.

Inside August of 2002, Presto Studios shut down when a release of an X-Pack title Whacked!. Within the statement, Greg Uhler (executive producer) announced the closing of the company: [http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=6142]

"Due to business, financial, and personal reasons, Presto Studios is discontinuing software development. Whacked! for the Xbox will be the last product that we ship. The company will remain as a corporate entity for many years, but will not be developing products. A minimal staff, including Michel and myself, will be here until the end of October."

Contact Information

Presto Studios, Inc.
P.O. Pack 230928
Encinitas, CA 92023-0928

Production History

The Legacy of the Journeyman Project

The Journeyman Project (Macintosh, Windows) The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime (Machintosh, Playstation 2) The Journeyman Project: Buried in Time (Macintosh, Windows) The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time (Macintosh, Windows)

A Journeyman Plan series centers in a temporal professional Gage Blackwood. We, a streaming video player, control a role of Gage Blackwood & travel across period to past & new locations sequentially to protect history's integrity.

Everthing terzetto titles in the series come first person adventure games featuring photo realistic graphics. the series developed a narrative story line sequentially to produce gameplay. Goals were according to the story, like than a string of puzzles.

Journeyman Evolution

There were numbers of changes inside interface & style all over a leash games in the series. For instance, Bequest of Period doesn't involve professional people to manipulate biochips as did the foremost 2 games. a original title imposed a instance restrict for game-play in which the rest of the series flushed this restriction. Narratively, a have of Time travel became a convention of traveling to locations. A foremost game is astir preventing alteration eventually, a 2nd by using choosing chronological anomalies, & a third utilizes period travel further as a story device. A games as well progressed around how else a streaming video player interacts sustaining a narrative space. Within Bequest of Instance, players were suspire to converse sustaining characters. When a earliest games focused in conditiin resolution, a late games focused extra on exploration.

Pegasus Prime

There is a 2nd remaking of The Journeyman Project titled The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime, which is only available for a Power Macintosh & Sony PlayStation but not the PC.

The Myst Franchise

Within 1999, Presto Studios won a contract to produce the third title in the Myst Series which would later become known as Myst III: Exile. At a instance, Cyan Worlds were developing Uru and their publisher at the period (Mattel Interactive) wanted to release a Myst title in the meantime. On top a as a result both years, Presto developed a title sustaining consultation by having Cyan Worlds employees such as Rand Miller and Richard A. Watson.

A production experienced difficulties at a down the road prevent of the development period. Mattel decided to sell its interactional section. In the span of Sextuplet months, able of the publisher changed mitts six days prior to eventually fixate Ubisoft. Though a actual development of the bet on wasn't hindered, a Quality Assurance and Marketing were hindered due to the little amount of period between Ubisoft's acquisition of the product & it's release date.

Whacked! and the closure of the company

Whacked! for Xbox was Presto Studios' final title prior to closing its doors shortly afterwards. Though however inside decently fiscal shape, Presto was facing an rising challenge in a transition from either the PC to console bet on market. A directors of a company saw a writing in wall sustaining a speedily shrinking PC back market & decided to close the company when it was in the lead. The important total of the originative staff moved within to high-profile roles in motion picture & animation production.

Published Titles

Macintosh: Gundam 0079: The War for Earth Hi-Rez Audio Volume 1 The Journeyman Project The Journeyman Project Turbo! The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time Myst III: Exile

Windows: Gundam 0079: The War for Earth The Journeyman Project The Journeyman Project Turbo! The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time Myst III: Exile Star Trek: Hidden Evil Stephen King's F13

Playstation/Playstation Deuce: Gundam 0079: The War for Earth The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime Myst III: Exile

Xbox: Myst III: Exile Whacked!

Unreleased Titles

Beneath The Journeyman Project 4