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)

On the 28th of September, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow will be available on Steam!!! Windows. Linux, MacOS and Steamdeck builds will be available for all our players, and cross-platform saves. This basically translates to you can play on any of these platforms and continue your progress no matter the platform you're playing!

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow has been in production for three years, and it's been such an incredibly rewarding and difficult journey for us! We cannot thank you enough for your support - we couldn't have done it without you!

We can't wait for you to finally be able to play the game!

Much love from everyone at Cloak and Dagger Games (Shaun, John and Laurie) and Wadjet Eye Games.

After 3 years of hard work, we are delighted to announce that The Excavation of Hob's Barrow will be coming to Steam on September 28th! It's been such a journey for us, thank you for your support along the way - we couldn't have done it without you!

Massive thanks too to Wadjet Eye Games for helping us make the game even better than we could have ever imagined!

We can't wait for you to finally be able to experience it!

Much love,

Shaun, John and Laurie
Cloak and Dagger Games

We are thrilled to finally be able to announce this - our folk horror adventure THE EXCAVATION OF HOB'S BARROW is being published by Wadjet Eye Games! It has been truly an honour and a privilege to work with such a legendary publisher, one who counts Unavowed, Primordia, Technobabylon, Gemini Rue and Blackwell series among their catalogue of classics!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/The_Excavation_of_Hobs_Barrow/

Wait, wasn't this game called INCANTAMENTUM?
Yes, it was. After discussions with various people who know what they are talking about, the consensus was that INCANTAMENTUM is a bit hard to remember/spell/pronounce for some folk. Interestingly, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow was our original working title for the game, so it was easy for us to make the switch! Rest assured nothing else about the game has changed in any way.

Working with Wadjet Eye Games means we've been able to expand and polish the game well beyond our initial hopes. The game now has full voice acting from a cast of great professional actors, and will also be coming to Mac and Linux!

You might notice the game is still referred to as INCANTAMENTUM on certain areas of Steam, with the old promo images - these might take a few days to clear away.

The game will be released later this year.

Thanks for your support!

Shaun
Cloak and Dagger Games

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the lack of updates on the game recently - we've been very busy getting it towards the finish line.

That being said, we are hoping to share some big news with you in July.

Watch this space.

Thanks for your support! Can't wait to share more :)
Shaun

Check out our updated demo stream for the Big Adventure Event 2022!

The Big Adventure Event is running January 20th to 24th and is a celebration of all things adventure!

An updated version of the demo is also available to download!

We hope to see you there :)

Starting January 20th at 21:00 GMT/13:00 PDT