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Genre: Adventure, Indie

Caliban Below

One point oh! Caliban arrives today
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 can do.

This latest release includes updated mechanics on switches, as well as a new heuristic for how and when Ovando comes to chat with you. If he scares the daylights out of you, it's my fault ;) Don't worry - he can't hurt you.

And lest I haven't mentioned, our hope is that this project can grow and grow over time to tell the full story of "The Abbot's Book." Give us a high sign if you like the work - obviously we're giving this episode away, so your feedback is the only payment we receive! Heck, if you hate it, you can say so too...

Anyway, we've had the script done for Episode 1 for quite a while now - - it's far bigger than this episode - - and while the tone of Ep1 is quite different than this story, if you like this, you'll surely enjoy the rest of the world. Hope to continue this conversation down the road. But for now... in an important way, you shall decide what happens next, dear visitor.

0.9.4 update is live
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 different than Vive, we'll have to accommodate the Oculus crowd in an upcoming release. Keep an eye out.)
- This release also reconfigures some areas of the catacombs, and
- changes the secondary introduction scene a fair amount.
- We've also changed up the way Ovando becomes available to interact with, and to a small extent what he looks like. Wiley demigod he is.

We've got a couple more things to do before we're at a solid 1.0, but we think we're close. Hope you like the results, but please let us know either way. ;)

PS: no update this time for Mac VR - but we'll post for Mac soon.

Caliban is coming!
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 jammed with details about the larger world - - we'll be very curious how much of the story you can infer, as you consider this new piece, alongside our prior chapter, "The Abbot's Book."

Please let us know what you think. We hope you're as excited about VR as we are, and we hope to share much more of this story with you soon!

PS - if there are any Poe and Lovecraft fans out there... well, we made this for you ;)
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