The Game Bakers launches Cairn DLC On the Trail: Deep Water
The French studio's new expansion for its physics-based climbing game is available now, Polygon reports.
The Game Bakers has released On the Trail: Deep Water, a new DLC for its climbing game Cairn, and it is available now, according to Polygon.
Cairn is an action-adventure game about a climber named Aava attempting to scale Mount Kami. It was designed around an intuitive, physics-based climbing controller rather than as a climbing simulation, and it includes a robot called a climbot that carries pitons and belays the player.
The DLC arrives from the French studio behind Haven. Audrey Leprince, a co-founder of The Game Bakers, is a producer on Cairn, and Emeric Thoa is its creative director.
Built on a physics-first controller
Thoa developed the vision for Cairn's simple climbing controller after the studio finished Haven, and the team prototyped the climbing mechanics for a long time before confirming the concept was deep and fun enough for a full game.
To build the physics system, The Game Bakers hired engineers with strong math backgrounds — a profile the team had not had before.
Quick answers
What is On the Trail: Deep Water?
It is a DLC for Cairn, the climbing action-adventure game from French studio The Game Bakers. It is available now.
What is Cairn about?
Cairn follows a climber named Aava as she attempts to scale Mount Kami.