Hi everyone, Our Makeship Petition to bring a Herbert plush toy to life is now fully funded! Massive thanks to everyone that has pledged or supported the campaign - we really appreciate it! Once the Petition closes on October 17th, we will work with Makeship to prototype and design the final plushie - it will then go on general sale for 3 weeks in January 2025! You can still submit your $2 pledge toward your plushie via the Makeship page if you wish: https://www.makeship.com/petitions/herbert-the-cat-from-the-excavation-of-hobs-barrow Thanks again, and all the best for the spooky season! Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

Calling all Hob's Barrow fans! Our Makeship Petition to bring a Herbert plush toy to life is now 81% funded! Enormous thanks to everyone that has supported it so far! You can submit your $2 pledge toward your plushie via the Makeship page: https://www.makeship.com/petitions/herbert-the-cat-from-the-excavation-of-hobs-barrow The Makeship Petition is running from October 7th to October 17th, your support in helping us bring Herbert to life is extremely appreciated! This is your chance to have one of these cursed little fellows sat at your bedside. If this Petition does not reach its goal, we are unlikely to try something like this again - so if you are interested in owning a little physical piece of the Hob's Barrow world please do consider pledging :) Thanks again, Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

Calling all Hob's Barrow fans! Our Makeship Petition to bring a Herbert plush toy to life is now 68% funded! Massive thanks to everyone that has supported it so far. You can submit your $2 pledge toward your plushie via the Makeship page: https://www.makeship.com/petitions/herbert-the-cat-from-the-excavation-of-hobs-barrow The Makeship Petition will end on October 17th, your support in helping us bring Herbert to life is extremely appreciated! This is your chance to have one of these cursed little stinky fellows sat at your bedside. If this Petition does not reach its goal, we are unlikely to try something like this again - so if you are interested in owning a little physical piece of the Hob's Barrow world please do consider pledging :) Thanks again, Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

Hi everyone! Our Makeship Petition to bring a Herbert plush toy to life is now over 50% funded! Massive thanks to everyone that has supported it so far. You can submit your $2 pledge toward your plushie via the Makeship page: https://www.makeship.com/petitions/herbert-the-cat-from-the-excavation-of-hobs-barrow The Makeship Petition will end on October 17th, your support in helping us bring Herbert to life is extremely appreciated! If this Petition does not reach its goal, we are unlikely to try something like this again - so if you are interested in owning a little physical piece of the Hob's Barrow world please do consider pledging :) Thanks again, Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

Hey everyone! Our Makeship Petition to bring Herbert the cat to life in plushie form has begun! We need 200 supporters to pledge $2 each by October 17 in order to bring this cursed little guy into existence! If you are interested in picking one up, you can find the Makeship page here: https://www.makeship.com/petitions/herbert-the-cat-from-the-excavation-of-hobs-barrow
How do Makeship Petitions work? Now the Petition is live, you can pledge $2 toward your plushie. We need 200 unique supporters to pledge $2 to make Herbert come to life and kickstart a full Campaign! You'll then be charged the remaining balance automatically when the Campaign launches. The full standard retail price for a plushie on Makeship is $29.99 (plus any applicable tax and p&p) If the Petition fails to reach 200 supporters, you will receive a refund of your $2. Why Herbert? We originally had the idea to create a plushie quite a while ago, so we ran a poll on Twitter to see who people might like to see as a plushie. Herbert won, with Thomasina a very distant second! Why can't I see the plushie design? Makeship only create the design and produce the plushie if 200 people pledge in the petition, this is their business model. If the Petition is successful, we will work closely with their designers to bring Herbert to life. Makeship are renowned for making high quality plushies, you can see some of their current designs here: https://www.makeship.com/shop/featured We are excited to send an army of little Herbert's out there into the world, your support in hopefully making this happen is very much appreciated! Many thanks, Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

Hey everyone! We are launching a Makeship Petition on October 7th to hopefully create a plushie of our dear creepy little friend Herbert the cat! This is your chance to bring him to life... if you dare! You can sign up on the Makeship page to get an alert when the Petition goes live: https://www.makeship.com/petitions/herbert-the-cat-from-the-excavation-of-hobs-barrow How do Makeship Petitions work? Once the Petition is fully live (on October 7) you can pledge $2 toward your plushie. We need 200 unique supporters to pledge $2 to make Herbert come to life and kickstart a full Campaign! You'll then be charged the remaining balance automatically when the Campaign launches. The full standard retail price for a plushie on Makeship is $29.99 (plus p&p) If the Petition fails to reach 200 supporters, you will receive a refund of your $2. Why Herbert? We originally had the idea to create a plushie quite a while ago, so we ran a poll on Twitter to see who people might like to see as a plushie. Herbert won, with Thomasina a very distant second! Why can't I see the plushie design? Makeship only create the design and produce the plushie if 200 people pledge in the petition, this is their business model. If the Petition is successful, we will work closely with their designers to bring Herbert to life. Makeship are renowned for making high quality plushies, you can see some of their current designs here: https://www.makeship.com/shop/featured We are very excited about this one! If you'd like to bring a Herbert into your life this is your chance - and your support is very much appreciated :) Many thanks, Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

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 Bart (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 [previewyoutube=zWRzaySj0MA;full][/previewyoutube]

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

Watch a gameplay stream of our updated INCANTAMENTUM demo for the Steam Next Fest! Fri, 1 October 2021 6:00 PM BST 10:00 AM PST Hope to see you there! Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

Watch continued streaming of our updated INCANTAMENTUM demo for the Big Adventure Event! Hope to see you there! Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

Watch continued streaming of our updated INCANTAMENTUM demo for the Big Adventure Event! Hope to see you there! Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

On January 22nd we'll be streaming gameplay footage of the INCANTAMENTUM demo as part of the BIG ADVENTURE EVENT (Jan 21-25 2021) JANUARY 22nd PDT - 8am CDT - 10am GMT - 4pm CET - 5pm Hope to see you there! Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

Streaming gameplay from the INCANTAMENTUM demo! October 8 4pm BST 8am PST

Hey there! The INCANTAMENTUM demo is now available to download! For the next week you can try out our upcoming folk horror adventure as part of the Steam Game Festival. You can download the demo on the store page, we hope you enjoy it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/INCANTAMENTUM/

Watch the very first stream of INCANTAMENTUM gameplay at 9pm BST, October 7th!

We are delighted to announce that the INCANTAMENTUM demo will be available to play during the Steam Festival: Autumn Edition, from October 7th to 13th. We also have some new key promo art almost finished, looking forward to showing it off. We can't wait to hear what you think of the demo! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/INCANTAMENTUM/

The whole Cloak and Dagger Games catalogue i is heavily discounted at the moment, grab 'em cheap! https://store.steampowered.com/app/610900/Sumatra_Fate_of_Yandi/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/654550/Football_Game/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/595560/Legend_of_Hand/

Calling Sumatra: Fate of Yandi fans! Nominations are now open for the AGS Awards 2019! If you have a spare couple of minutes, Yandi would sure appreciate your nominations :) Here's the link: https://adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/awards/nominate/ There's been lots of great AGS (Adventure Game Studio) games this year too, spread the voting love! Special shout out to Guard Duty, Metaphobia, and Feria d'Arles - some of my favourites from 2019. https://store.steampowered.com/app/610900/Sumatra_Fate_of_Yandi/ Thanks for your support! Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games

Hey everyone, We are very proud to announce that Sumatra: Fate of Yandi has been nominated for 2 awards in the 2019 Aggie Awards! Big thanks to the lovely folk over at Adventure Gamers for this honour. Sumatra: Fate of Yandi has been nominated in the following categories: - Best Story - Best Traditional Adventure You can also vote for Sumatra: Fate of Yandi in the Reader's Choice poll! Any votes are much appreciated. https://store.steampowered.com/app/610900/Sumatra_Fate_of_Yandi/ Thanks for your support! Shaun Cloak and Dagger Games