The Cavern Today

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

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)

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

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.

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

• 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

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.

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’.

Our TCT Talk-centric fifth podcast discusses the following topics:

• “Bought The Cyan Complete Pack on Steam” Bevin.
• Sholek’s Temple Link
• Starry Expanse Project https://www.starryexpanse.com/
• Cyan’s Stoneship announced Link
• iRiven site launched Link
• iMyst and iRiven on Android? Cyan says maybe Link
• The Manhole for iOS
• Medal of Honor Link
• Duke Nukem Forever actually being prepared to be released? Link
• Video Games Live CD / DVD / Blu-ray October 19th Link

Our podcast for August 2010 features:

• TCT Talk Over the Fence:
  • 3D in TVs and Games
  • E3 Post Impressions
  • iPhone 4 & iOS 4 Release Impressions
  • Blizzard’s “Real ID”
  • Starcraft II
• Musical Piece: Tansunn – “Thanks for Dinner”
• Quick Mowog Thought on Steam & Conclusion

Join Jnathus, Mowog, Maurus, and Alhon for Episode 3 of The (new) Cavern Today! Show Notes:

1. New TCT Forum
2. What is OHBot, and what is he / it doing?
3. SimiOTF – Cyan Phishing Scam
4. Over the Fence – Magiquest Online is now open
5. Over the Fence – J’nathus is playing Splinter Cell Conviction
6. Over the Fence – Orange Box becoming popular again due to successful Steam Sale?
7. Over the Fence – E3 anticipations
8. Over the Fence – What are YOU playing?
9. Over the Fence – iPhone4 / iOS4

Episode 2 of The Cavern Today, featuring:

• CAVCON
• SHOUTcast
• Musical piece from Jeff Wise: “Welcome Home”
• Griefing in URU?
• Artemesia (Dr. Celia Pearce)
  – Book: ‘Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds’
  – There.com closing
  – How you feel about Uru Live coming back again
  – Differences between Uru and There.com
• Portal 2
• Mowog Thought