The Excavation of Hob's Barrow News

UPDATE: The tapes sold out in a flash! Thanks to everyone that snagged one! :)

Hey everyone,

A very limited number of Hob's Barrow soundtrack cassette tapes are back in stock via The Machine. The Demon.'s Bandcamp page! It seems he found some copies down the back of his couch just in time for Christmas.

These will sell out very quickly and I'm pretty sure there won't be any more after this, so if you are interested please do take a look!

You can find the tape for sale here.



As always, thank you for your support!

Shaun
Cloak and Dagger Games

Hey everyone!

With great pleasure we can belatedly announce that Samantha Béart (Thomasina Bateman) was longlisted for this year's BAFTA Games Awards in the Performer in a Leading Role category: one of the top 10 performances as voted by BAFTA members in 2023!

BAFTA recently announced that going forward from 2024, longlisted nominees will be published online. In the past, longlisted nominees were sworn to secrecy unless they made the final shortlist (top 6 performances). This was very hard to keep quiet! BAFTA has now given us special permission to publicly share Samantha's longlist nomination - something we are very proud of! I think we can all agree Samantha truly brought Thomasina to life - an incredible performance!

Thanks for your continued support for The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, we really appreciate it. It's been a crazy ride since release, thanks for sharing it with us! :)

With love,
Shaun, John and Laurie
Cloak and Dagger Games

Earlier this week we received the lovely news that The Excavation of Hob's Barrow has been nominated for PC Gamer's "Game of the Year 2022" - such a surreal moment! We are blown away. Big thanks to PC Gamer for this incredible honour! You can read the article here: https://www.pcgamer.com/pc-gamer-nominees-goty-2023/

We've been delighted to see so many people enjoying our little folk horror tale. Thank you for all your support - we really appreciate it! :)

Happy holidays,
Shaun
Cloak and Dagger Games

If you want to switch to 3.6 version of AGS (there is no need to do so, but if you're experiencing some issues with input, it will help) for you can do so by following the instructions:
1) Right click The Excavation of Hobs Barrow,
2) Properties
3) Betas
4) typing in that text input box "testformactest" WITHOUT QUOTES, hitting check code
5) Hitting the blue button that will appear (i believe it will write "Opt into mactest")
6) The game will begin downloading files and once that's done, you'll have the same but hopefully the issue will be resolved!

List of fixes:
-Fixed some texts regarding a poem.
-Fixed the darkness level on some objects so that they are more visible.
-Fixed clarity of click to advance dialogue option.

v1.03
-Fixed an issue with a label
-Now ENTER can select a dialog option
-Fixed a potential crash/hang (very rare)