The Cavern Today

TCT 44: Make a Home

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‘Tis the season to be jolly! For our Holiday 2022 edition, we’re closing out the year with:

Cavern News with Dalken Starbyne
Skit
TCT Talk with Bert, Esto, J’nathus, Maurus, Narym & Sh’aeri:
- Riven remake announcement
- Myst merch we’d love to see
- Highgarden release
- The Cavern during the holiday season
- How has Myst & Uru influenced the way you play other games?
- What other worlds have you been exploring, and what is your GOTY?
Cavern PSAs with Mowog
Interview with Keith “Tweek” Lord
Musical Piece: “Ages of Tweek Suite” by Sasha Strange

Background music featured in this episode courtesy LCC, Arclife, Robyn Miller, and Barentity.

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Tags: Mowog, Sasha Strange, TCT Talk, Tweek

Read more | Comments (3) | December 23rd, 2022

TCT 43: Restoration (ft. Patrick Dulebohn)

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The Cavern Today is back with its first podcast in nearly a decade! For our Summer 2022 edition, we are pleased to bring you:

Cavern News with Alhon and Narym
Skit
TCT Talk with Bert, Dalken, J’nathus and Maurus:
- Our interview with Patrick “Doobes” Dulebohn
- What has surprised us the most about the state of Uru in 2022?
- Myst VR
- Speculation about the future of Myst and Uru
Mowog’s Thought for the Pod
A tribute to Jeff Wise, and a reprise of his musical piece “Kerath’s Arch”
Sh’aeri’s “That’s Just Me of Course”

This podcast is dedicated to TCT staffer Jeff Wise and Frank “Stungthumbz” Whiting, who both passed away in 2020 – though you have linked to the perfect age, you’ll always be in our hearts.

Starting with this episode, we have adjusted episode numbering to more accurately reflect the number of prior episodes of The Cavern Today. As this is the 43rd mainline release of “The Cavern Today,” this is now considered episode 43.

Background music featured in this podcast by LCC and Tim Larkin.

Additional Links:
Guild of Messengers Event Calendar
Ages of Doobes
Guild of Writers
H’uru/OpenUru Github (to report bugs and file requests)
Korman tutorials
OpenUru (Foundry and link to discord)

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Tags: Doobes, Jeff Wise, Mowog, TCT Talk

Read more | Comments (3) | July 23rd, 2022

The TCT Archives are Back!

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After a herculean effort rebuilding our feed, remastering audio and updating old art, we are pleased to announce The Cavern Today’s podcast feed has been officially relaunched, and our complete podcast archives are now available on your favorite streaming services, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Pocket Casts.

In addition, our newly-updated website now features the return of content we haven’t made available since 2010, including exclusive interviews with Rand Miller, coverage of the 2006 Cyan Pizza Party, and at long last, our archives of The Cavern Today Extra – our “shortwave” service which covered important in-cavern updates between 2005-2008.

To be clear, this is only a relaunch of our archives, and we have no plans for any new content at this time. However, if that changes, we’ll be sure to let you know.

Check us out at https://thecaverntoday.com – and when you’re in-cavern, feel free to stop by The Cavern Today’s Hood to say hello!

Update 6/13/2022 – An issue affecting the Apple Podcasts version of our feed, where some episodes appeared to be missing, has now been resolved by Apple, and all episodes of our podcast archive should now be playable from Apple Podcasts.

Read more | Comments (1) | April 29th, 2022

[TCT 42] The Cavern Today Ep. X: Myst 20th Anniversary Special

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To Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Myst, The Cavern Today is proud to present this special podcast, featuring:

Cavern News with Dalken Starbyne
D’Lanor – “Stream of Unconsciousness”
Special Retrospective TCT Talk
Jeff Wise – “Gardens of Bandam”
Return of the TCT Mad Lib

This will be TCT’s final podcast for the time being – We will continue maintaining the website and its archives, but the production team will be taking an indefinite hiatus to focus on other projects. Thank you for your support over the years, and shorah!

Background music featured in this podcast by Jack Wall, LCC, and Robyn Miller.

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Tags: D'Lanor, Jeff Wise, TCT Talk

Read more | Comments (4) | September 24th, 2013

[TCT 41] The Cavern Today Ep. Nine: Open Source

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Our first podcast in over a year features:

Skit
TCT Talk:
- URU is Open Source
- CyanWorlds.com Engine
- Fan Run MO:ULa based server list
- “State of the URU” – our thoughts on Uru and the impact it’s had on us and on our greater gaming experiences / lives.
- Myst and Riven on iPad
- Playing Uru on your tablet via Splashtop2
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s The Art of Video Games added Myst last year
Musical Piece: Jeff Wise, “The Way Things Are”
Mowog Thought

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Tags: Jeff Wise, TCT Talk

Read more | Comments (4) | April 28th, 2013

New Project: Over the Fence

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Shorah, explorers.

If you’re wondering why there hasn’t been a lot of action from our front, it’s mostly because the crew behind TCT has been committing themselves to a new podcasting project called Over the Fence.

Over the Fence is a new podcast named and designed after the short-lived TCT miniseries called The Cavern Today: Over the Fence, and covers topics in the gaming, entertainment, and technology world, with a focus on the mindset of an adventure gamer.

If you like The Cavern Today, you’re sure to like this production as well, so come check us out at our new website: https://overthefence.tv!

Read more | Comments (0) | December 20th, 2011

[TCT 40] The Cavern Today Ep. Eight: Rewarding the Player

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TCT Talk:
- MOULagain- one year later.
- The hacker hoods and the related story
- iRiven was recently released for iPhone.
- Myst in the Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum’s “The Art of Video Games” exhibit.
- All about Revelation: What worked, what didn’t . . .
“Kuusisto” – Musical piece by Maurus
Mowog Thought

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Tags: iriven, Maurus, moul, Mowog, myst, revelation, riven, TCT Talk, uru

Read more | Comments (0) | April 2nd, 2011

[TCT 39] The Cavern Today Episode Seven

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Our Podcast for the December 2010 holiday season features a TCT Talk, discussing:

F.E.A.R. 3 and Call of Duty Black Ops are being shepherded by other developers NOT those who created the franchises. We’ve had Myst III and IV… Is the original developer necessary to carry the torch of a franchise?
The future of PC gaming according to Ken Levine
Valve / Steam killing the PC gaming market
iRiven submitted to Apple
Open Source Kinect drivers released
Spike Video Game Awards (VGAs), what games are you stoked about?

…and, a musical piece by Jeff Wise.

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Tags: blackops, cod, fear, iriven, Jeff Wise, kinect, myst, open source, riven, spike, steam, valve

Read more | Comments (0) | December 24th, 2010

[TCT 38] The Cavern Today Episode Six

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This episode, we cover:

GoG went down, but it’s BACK
3DS Launch date confirmed, features downloadable Game Boy games.
World of Warcraft – Patch 4.0.1 – Pre-Cataclysm
Wing!?!?! Stop hacking!
MineCraft
Black Mesa… Why hasn’t Valve snatched up this company and made this project official?
Beyond Good & Evil HD Re-release
Myst Movie finds a Partner (For real this time.)
Microsoft wants to challenge Steam Link

Also featuring: The Mowog Thought and a musical piece by Maurus, entitled ‘Ver Calidus’.