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The Cavern is a puzzle-adventure game designed exclusively for room-scale VR. Solve puzzles, piece together stories and venture deeper into the darkness in search of one of the greatest lost treasures of our time.

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Update 1.3 - Performance Improvements & Settings Fixes

Nov 27, 2017

Hey everyone!

Today we just pushed update 1.3 which brings a bunch of performance improvements across the board, mainly focused on lighting optimizations. We were able to remove a lot of the shadow casting lights without affecting the overall visual quality of the game much and it seems to be running much better! We also found out that our culling system wasn't working which wasn't helping the matter.

Other than that, we also fixed several issues that were causing settings to not be saved or applied. There are a few Video options that are quite heavy, so be wary of Ambient Occlusion and Volumetric Lighting if you're close to the minimum requirements.

There was one other small visual bug fixed with some of the lights in the first room when the bulbs were glowing when they shouldn't be.

That's it for today guys, please let us know how the update works for you and if you missed it before, Oculus Rift support is coming in the very near future!

The Cavern

Is this coming to the Oculus Rift as well?

I was going to ask if it worked yet but realized that it's not out yet at all. Are you guys eventually planning on releasing this for the rift too because I'm extremely interested in this game :) It looks cool.

tempestmichael

Aug 4, 2018 @ 1:41pm

General Discussions

Progress Update - Oculus Rift & More!

Nov 23, 2017

Hey everyone!

We just wanted to post a quick update on the development progress to keep everyone updated.

First and foremost, there will be an update live this weekend with some pretty serious performance improvements that should smooth out any issues that some were experiencing. This comes with a bunch of bug fixes as well so it should be a great update!

And for the most important piece of news, we've ordered an Oculus Rift and will officially be adding support as soon as it arrives! We received a lot of interest from the Oculus community and we're excited to get the support out ASAP.

Thanks for all of your support everyone and make sure to keep your eyes peeled for these 2 updates coming in the very near future!

The Cavern

Update 1.2 - Puzzle Improvements, Fixes & More

Nov 5, 2017

Hey everyone!

Today we bring you treasure hunters another update that fixes a few bugs that we've noticed players experiencing and some improvements for one of the puzzles that we felt was a bit too tedious.

The puzzle we're talking about is in the room with the buckets and the waterfall. The symbols around the room have been grouped up in a way to make them a little easier to find which should drastically help people solve the puzzle without making it any easier. Just less time consuming.

As for fixes, your controllers were supposed to turn off when picking up most objects but weren't, so that is now fixed. The volume slider simply didn't work at all, on top of that we've added 2 new sliders. You can now control Master, Music and SFX volumes independently.

Now one thing we were hoping to have with this patch was some performance improvements. The biggest problem is we have too many shadow casting lights. We are still experimenting with some ways that we can fix this issue without severely reducing the visual quality of the game so these optimizations weren't able to make it in yet. This is definitely our main priority at the moment and should have something out soon for you.

There's a few more things, so check out the full changelog below!

Fixes:

Controllers weren't going invisible when picking up items.
The lamp will no longer fade your camera to black when near your head.
Fixed the volume slider that didn't work.

Changes:

The symbols around the room with the waterfall and the buckets have been grouped up into two's. This should make it less tedious to find them all while not making the puzzle much easier.
The lantern in the first main room of the cave now casts shadows.
Added new Music and SFX volume sliders.

The Cavern

Inventory Issue

Since last update I played the game and now the inventory won't appear when I use the button on the Vive to access it. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it and still have the same problem. I have the Vive and my computer is a I7 with the gtx1080.

Wile E. Coyote

Dec 24, 2018 @ 10:06am

General Discussions

Performance issues.

Thought I would ask here before refunding. Im having terrible performance in this game, it looks like screentearing every time I look around. Doesnt matter which graphics options I use, or if I lower the screen resolution. Am I the only one, and wil this be fixed? Also, the Video-options keeps reseting....