Happy Halloween, catacomb spelunkers! We've gone live with our 1.2 release, which includes: - Subtitles (Chinese and English to start) Subtitles should be on by default for Chinese language regions. Please let us know if you have any difficulties. - Use the new Options Screen to - Turn subtitles on or off manually & select language - Set graphics quality level (We know there are still performan…
Hi All We're adding a little DLC to Caliban Below: The original short story of "The Abbot's Book." It's a richly illustrated digital book (pdf format) that tells the tale of Caliban's father, Tithonus, and his effort to shield his family from the darkness that has troubled his forebears for generations. Years before the events of "Caliban Below," an abbot discovers a mysterious realm undergroun…
Dear Mac VR users - at long last, we've gotten our mitts on a mac that is VR capable - currently Apple's best gpu. And we've finally been able to jump into Caliban Below on Mac. And - - we can see there's a problem... Sorry for the delay in getting to this - we'd been inclined to get something out there for y'all to play with, and hadn't realized the performance was just not that great. Anyway,…
Hi All We've just released a beta for 1.2, which includes - Chinese & English subtitles (hopefully more languages to come soon). Chinese subtitles should automatically be on if you're in a Chinese-speaking country. But if you want to invoke subtitles manually you can use the - Options screen - Use this to set subtitles on/off and to pick language. You can also set the graphics quality level her…
Hi Folks 1.1 is live! Lots of improvements here: - Click turning: Vive users swipe left/right on the thumb pad. Oculus users click left/right with the joystick - Better blink UI: It's much harder to wind up inside a wall... ouch! Also much easier for new users unfamiliar with blinking - Far better performance on a broad range of GPU's. And if you like, you can select higher or lower quality set…
Hi Folks We've just posted a beta of 1.1, with a number of improvements. Right-click on Caliban Below in your steam library and select the 'betas' tab; then the pop-up to opt in. - CLICK-TURNING. Vive: swipe left or right on the thumb pad. Oculus: click left/right on the joystick. - Lots of tuning for a broader range of GPUs. The default state should run better on older hardware now, but we als…
Hi Folks We're getting close to shipping an update on Caliban. We're adding click-turning (most requested feature), lots of performance enhancements, better support for different classes of machines, a more sophisticated heuristic for blinking which should prevent new users from getting stuck, and a handful of other goodies. We're looking for a handful of beta testers who might want to take a g…
We've put a lot of work in on this little project and we're awfully pleased to put it our there for you to see. We hope you enjoy stepping into the story as much as we've loved making it. We'll keep a close eye on the forums, and with any luck our 1.0 will be smooth sailing. VR encompasses a pretty broad swath of hardware of course, so let us know if you have difficulties and we'll see what we…
Hi All A few tweaks and refinements in this release: - We're making some adjustments to light levels. We know Caliban Below is pretty darn dark, and we like it that way... but we don't want it toooo dark. There's a fine balance to strike here which has to take into account manufacturing differences between generations of display panels. (Furthermore, since the Oculus color space is noticably di…
Hi All - we're pleased to announce our new project, Caliban Below. Based on characters from "The Abbot's Book," Caliban Below is the second installment in a much larger story which we're hoping to produce in full over the next few years. The VR world is growing and we're awfully excited to get some new ideas about immersive storytelling out into the world. While this is a short piece, it's jamm…
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