Ryan Miller (author)

Ryan Miller is a writer who worked as a design director for the computer game company Cyan Worlds

Cyan Worlds

Cyan Worlds, Inc. is a video game development company, founded by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller in 1987, and best known as the creators of the Myst series. After Myst and its sequel Riven sold several million copies each, Cyan went on to create the massively multiplayer online adventure, Uru,...

, founded by his brothers Rand

Rand Miller

Rand Miller co-founded Cyan with brother Robyn Miller and became famous from the unexpected success of their computer game Myst, which remained the number one-selling game for the remainder of the 1990s...

 and Robyn Miller

Robyn Miller

Robyn Charles Miller co-founded Cyan Worlds with brother Rand Miller. After releasing a number of children's adventure "worlds", the brothers finally hit on a success with the computer game Myst, which remained the number one-selling game for the remainder of the 1990s...

. Ryan is credited with writing the initial draft of the Book of Atrus for Myst

Myst

Myst is a graphic adventure video game designed and directed by the brothers Robyn and Rand Miller. It was developed by Cyan , a Spokane, Washington––based studio, and published and distributed by Brøderbund. The Millers began working on Myst in and released it for the Mac OS computer on September...

. He also received acknowledgment for helping develop the story lines in Book of Ti'ana, Book of D'ni, and Uru

Uru: Ages Beyond Myst

Uru: Ages Beyond Myst is an adventure video game developed by Cyan Worlds and published by Ubisoft. Released in 2003, the title is the fourth game in the Myst canon. Departing from previous games of the franchise, Uru takes place in the modern era and allows players to customize their onscreen...

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In 2004, Miller and his wife, Heidi, opened Mango Ink, a boutique greeting card company.

Miller self-published two novels, Inkarri (2003) and The Naked Fruit (2010). He lives in Spokane, Washington.