- St. Patrick's Day Update! - 17 March 2022
Happy St.Patrick's Day! Hello Everyone! Over the last few months, we've been hard at work planning the next steps for Clan O'Conall. As a result, we've batched a number of small but important improvements to the game to fix outstanding issues. We've also introduced some cool new features to bring the joy of exploration to Hibernia once again. Overall Fixes Many, many major performance optimizations across the whole game to address frame drops and loading issues. Many fixes, adjustments, and slight improvements to art and visuals, primarily addressing elements which were layered or parallaxing incorrectly Clackshot’s upgrade “Touch the Sky” now correctly reflects non-fire projectiles as intended by performing a double or triple jump Clackshot’s Grapple Hook ability has improved visual feedback for when she is within range of a green grapple attach point Adjusted volume of background musi…
- The "Foot" Race! - 31 July 2021
It's mid-week of the Hibernian Summer Games and it's time to put our feet to the peat and see who's the fastest runner in all of Hibernia! TeamWiders will be competing for cash prizes and the vaulted title of Fastest Runner. The race is from Game Start to the defeat of Jack-in-Irons 2, a full on "Foot" Circuit! Catch the race on The TeamWiders Twitch Channel or on our Store page! All of this is made possible through the amazing support of The Hospital for Sick Children and GG Talent Group. Through the next week we're raising funds for Children's health! Learn More About our Campaign Here
- The Hibernian Summer Games are Here! - 28 July 2021
JOIN THE HIBERNIAN SUMMER GAMES, HELP RAISE MONEY FOR SICKKIDS, AND WIN COOL PRIZES! Click Here to Learn More About the Event! Beginning on July 26th at 12:00PM EDT, streamers are signing up to raise money for SickKids under their new VS initiative. We’re bringing gamers together to build a hospital – and we need your help! Streamers can sign up, bring their channel, and win prizes and giveaways for their audience through the following two weeks. The Hibernian Summer Games are an initiative to raise money for this worthy cause with events and contests. There’s also a double reward track, so it’s incredibly easy to get on board, win cool swag, and raise money for a cause that will help children all over the world! Registration for the event is being done through StreamLabs Charity, which has zero processing fee for donations. Clan's On Sale, 25% Off! 10% Goes to Sick Kids! Throughout the…
- The Monsters & Mayhem Update is Live! - 21 July 2021
Summer is almost over and we wanted to introduce some new features into the game based on player feedback. These are things we’ve wanted to add for a while! That’s why we’re happy to announce the Monsters & Mayhem Update, including a new Accessibility Pause option for Swaps, and Game Difficulty! Character Swap-Pause Option Finding it challenging to swap precisely when you have a boar on your tail? Say no more! Within the Gameplay section of the pause menu, we added this handy new feature that will give a brief pause to the gameplay every time you switch to a new character, allowing you to prepare your next move or correct the swap if you mistakenly selected the wrong sibling for the job. You can turn this on and off anytime you want! Combat Difficulty Setting We want everybody to play at the level they want so we made an Easy, Normal, and Hard mode for combat! You don’t find enough of a…
- Hibernian Summer Update - Localization, Speedrun Support, and Visual Polish! - 1 June 2021
The Hibernian Summer Update is Here! Greetings from the Clan! There's never any rest for the weary, but we did manage to sneak in a few days to relax, recuperate and make headway on our first major update. We wanted to address the biggest improvements we could make, primarily visual and in quality of life. Without further ado: please enjoy the Hibernian Summer Update. Language Support Hola, Salut, and Olá. Clan O’Conall is now fully localized into Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Thank you for all the feedback and support from players in these regions who helped us to get these localizations completed! New Game Features! We’ve added a few new features to the play experience to help repeat plays and completionists out. We’ve been keen on following player feedback over the last month to improve a lot of pain points but also to introduce some new quality of life features. There is now a Sp…
- Patch 1.1 Notes - 1 June 2021
Language Support Hola, Salut, and Olá. Clan O’Conall is now fully localized into Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Thank you to all the feedback and support from players in these regions who helped us to get these localizations completed! New Game Features! We’ve added a few new features to the play experience to help repeat plays and completionists out. We’ve been keen on following player feedback over the last month to improve a lot of pain points but also to introduce some new quality of life features. There is now a Speedrunner Timer added to the Gameplay Options menu. The Timer automatically stops during Level Selection, Menus, Pauses and during Cutscenes to get time tracking down to the millisecond. Level selection now provides a tracker for Faeries, Enemies, Secrets and Best Times. Now looking for that last faerie for an upgrade won’t require you popping in and out of levels. We’v…
- Week One Updates - 5 May 2021
Week One Update - v1.05.1 fixes Hello Everyone! We have a slate of changes planned for the near future, but we wanted to quickly fix issues that caused the greatest deal of play disruption or otherwise easily noticed issues that commonly occur. We'll have more information about our next major update in the coming week, but please enjoy our first update in the form of v1.05 Game Fixes We have addressed the issue that prevented credit being awarded for Achievements. Music has been added to Stages 6 and 9 where previously no music would play. Adjustments to the second Stage of Caoranach's behavior and visual indicators to make the fight experience more intuitive. Adjustments to the third Stage of Caoranach to fix the beam attack that was previously not working as intended. Level Fixes The Time limit for the Arena in Stage 16 has been extended by 10 seconds. Level geometry in Stage 12 has b…
- Hotfix 1.0.5.1 Notes - 5 May 2021
Game Fixes We have addressed the issue that prevented credit being awarded for Achievements. Music has been added to Stages 6 and 9 where previously no music would play. Adjustments to the second Stage of Caoranach's behavior and visual indicators to make the fight experience more intuitive. Adjustments to the third Stage of Caoranach to fix the beam attack that was previously not working as intended. Level Fixes The Time limit for the Arena in Stage 16 has been extended by 10 seconds. Level geometry in Stage 12 has been fixed in certain places. Force Gates in Stage 9 and 12 which end Character Restriction were not displaying correctly. They should now clearly end Force Gate restrictions. Control Fixes The D-Pad should correctly switch characters according to the control mapping interface. Other Fixes We've translated our Achievements into Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese, and…
- Clan O'Conall is Out Now! - 28 April 2021
Hello Everyone! We are excited and proud to announce that we've launched v1.02 of Clan O'Conall and the Crown of the Stag, or our initial retail build! This is the culmination of a journey for HitGrab that began in 2018. The concept for the game originated when we discovered some wonderful unused character concepts that had been sitting on our lead artist’s blog for over a decade. From there, we went from in-person development and early appearances at conventions to having to pack up the office and learn to adjust to remote work. The cancellations of major conventions throughout 2020 made it hard for us to get the game in front of the audience we were hoping for but, thanks in large part to the wonderful support of our community, we were able to successfully fund the project through Kickstarter in late 2020. After a closed beta with our backers, we are finally ready to share this beauti…
- Clan O'Conall Dev Stream with Q&A - 9 October 2020
(Note: This is a rescheduled event from Oct 7th due to technical difficulties) Join us on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/hitgrab at 8:00PM EDT on October 9th, 2020. We're proud to release a new demo alongside the SAGF launch, and that means we'll be kicking off the event with a Livestream Demo with Developers James and Jake to run through the current build of the game and some of the great features and creatures we have in store over the week. We're also going to be on-hand to answer questions about Clan O'Conall, our project, and the path of the game up to its release. We had a great turnout for our last event, but now we have even more to showcase. Hop on our Twitch at the designated time and get to learn more about Clan O'Conall and the talented team behind its creation. We've Launched on Kickstarter! A part of the month of October events, we've also brought Clan O'Conall to Kickstart…
- Clan O'Conall Dev Stream with Q&A - 2 October 2020
Join us on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/hitgrab at 8:00PM EDT on October 7th, 2020. We're proud to release a new demo alongside the SAGF launch, and that means we'll be kicking off the event with a Livestream Demo with Developers James and Jake to run through the current build of the game and some of the great features and creatures we have in store over the week. We're also going to be on-hand to answer questions about Clan O'Conall, our project, and the path of the game up to its release. We had a great turnout for our last event, but now we have even more to showcase. Hop on our Twitch at the designated time and get to learn more about Clan O'Conall and the talented team behind its creation. We've Launched on Kickstarter! A part of the month of October events, we've also brought Clan O'Conall to Kickstarter. Indie development work in the age of COVID is difficult, and we need your s…
- Q&A + Speedrun Between Developers - 18 June 2020
Join Game Designers Jake Nissen and James Pratt as they face off in a speedrun of the Clan O’Conall and the Crown of the Stag demo level! They’ll also be answering questions and talking about what to expect in the full game release this fall. Stream can be viewed here on Steam, or on our HitGrab Twitch Channel. Our Other Events for the Steam Games Festival June 16th @ 12pm: Artists Q&A https://twitter.com/clanoconall Newsletter -> https://mailchi.mp/68f9cd60c1ae/5e0l9r973n
- Demo Available Now! - and other things - 16 June 2020
Our game demo is officially live!! Swap between our three heroes in the demo level and boss battle - and of course then tell your friends all about it! Make sure you play before June 22 @ 1:00PM EST because once the festival is over the demo is gone! Events and contests and prizes we're hosting June 16-22. Please note we strongly encourage players to use a controller while playing the game, although keyboards do work. Keyboard Controls (cannot be rebound/swapped at this point in time) A & D - Move Left/Right Spacebar - Jump J - Attack L - Dodge U & I - Swap Characters We currently have a bug with the ESC key so we highly encourage you to not press the ESC key on the keyboard (works fine with controller). We're currently working on a fix. Hope you all enjoy the game!
- Event and Contest Details for Steam Games Festival - 8 June 2020
As part of the Steam Games Festival we’ll be hosting a number of events and contests (with prizes!) from June 16-21 so players can play the demo and interact with the team who are making the game! EVENTS We’ll be sharing more specific details on these livestreams closer to the event - best way to find out about updates is by subscribing to our newsletter! June 16th @ 12pm: Artists Q&A June 17th @ 12pm: Game Designer Q&A + Playthrough June 18th @12 pm: Entire Team Reddit AMA June 19th @12pm: Sound Team Q&A June 20th @ 12pm: Devs Q&A June 21st @ 12pm: Sneak Peek of Full Game - Livestream with Team CONTESTS Since all physical events were shut down we’ve got some Clan O’Conall and the Crown of the Stag swag and Steam keys to giveaway! This is a worldwide event so be sure to participate! In addition to the brief overview below we encourage you to view our full post on contests]detailed list…
- Sneak Peek of Full Game - Livestream with Team - 8 June 2020
Now that you’ve played the demo you might be wondering what else is going to be included in the game! Join Francisco (Team Lead), Kelly (Art Director), Jake (Game Designer) and James (Level Designer) for a peek behind the curtains of what to expect from the full game release! Our Other Events for the Steam Games Festival June 16th @ 12pm: Artists Q&A https://twitter.com/clanoconall Newsletter -> https://mailchi.mp/68f9cd60c1ae/5e0l9r973n
- Devs Q&A - 8 June 2020
Duane Menezes (Lead Game Developer) and Jin Cai (Game Developer) will be taking any and all questions you have about the development of Clan O’Conall and the Crown of the Stag. Both have been on the game since its inception so they’ve allegedly got all the answers! Our Other Events for the Steam Games Festival June 16th @ 12pm: Artists Q&A https://twitter.com/clanoconall Newsletter -> https://mailchi.mp/68f9cd60c1ae/5e0l9r973n
- Sound Team Q&A - Cancelled - 8 June 2020
Unfortunately due to scheduling we won't be able to host this livestream today. We're going to arrange something outside of the festival so please do wishlist the game or sign up for the newsletter to be notified of when that event happens. In place of this event we'll be hosting a Q&A + Speedrun challenge with the Game Designers Jake and James! You can set a reminder for that event here or tune in to our Steam page or Twitch at 12pm EST Friday June 19. Guest speakers Adam Gubman and Alex Cox of Moonwalk audio talk to Francisco Garcia (Team Lead) about the sound of Clan O’Conall! If you’ve listened to the trailer soundtrack you know that you’re in for a great discussion about audio helping set the tone for a game! Our Other Events for the Steam Games Festival June 16th @ 12pm: Artists Q&A June 17th @ 12pm: Game Designer Q&A + Playthrough June 18th @12 pm: Entire Team Reddit AMA June 19t…
- Entire Team Reddit AMA - 8 June 2020
Missed our livestreams earlier in the week? Livestreams not your thing? Still got a burning question about the game? Join the entire Clan O’Conall and the Crown of the Stag for our Reddit AMA! https://www.reddit.com/user/HitGrab - the reddit will be posted in r/pcgaming so please do drop by and ask a question and upvote us! (currently awaiting moderator approval, should be up asap!) Our Other Events for the Steam Games Festival June 16th @ 12pm: Artists Q&A June 17th @ 12pm: Game Designer Q&A + Playthrough June 18th @12 pm: Entire Team Reddit AMA June 19th @12pm: Sound Team Q&A June 20th @ 12pm: Devs Q&A June 21st @ 12pm: Sneak Peek of Full Game - Livestream with Team There are also a variety of contests to try winning Steam keys and game swag during the Steam Game Festival so be sure to check out our full post on contests! About the Game Clan O’Conall and the Crown of the Stag is a 2D,…
- 6 Contests: Prizes and Rules Announced! - 8 June 2020
We’re running 6 separate contests to coincide with the release of our demo during the Steam Game Festival! Players can enter as many of the contests as they want, and as many times as they want. Prizes will include game keys, t-shirts and hoodies! 1. Fastest Speedrunner Be the player with the fastest speedrun of the game and you’ll win a prize and, more importantly, bragging rights! Prize: 2 free Clan O’Conall Steam keys when the game releases Clan O’Conall t-shirt (shipped worldwide) Rules: Players must submit entry via google form Google form Stream must be publicly viewable Speedrun must happen between June 16-21 Speedrun must be visible until June 30th to provide us time to review entries You must wishlist Clan O’Conall on Steam To verify it is the streamer that submits the link to the video we will be directly contacting the winner through direct messaging on their platform - so pl…
- Artists Q&A - 8 June 2020
Join us on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/hitgrab We get asked the most about the visual style of the game so we’re inviting everyone to speak with Kelly Conely (Art Director) Sam Elkana (Artist and Animator) and Francisco Garcia (Team Lead). We’ll be livestreaming and answering questions like creating a visual style, where to draw inspiration from, how to carry a style into animation and anything else people want to know! Our Other Events for the Steam Games Festival June 16th @ 12pm: Artists Q&A June 17th @ 12pm: Game Designer Q&A + Playthrough June 18th @12 pm: Entire Team Reddit AMA June 19th @12pm: Sound Team Q&A June 20th @ 12pm: Devs Q&A June 21st @ 12pm: Sneak Peek of Full Game - Livestream with Team There are also a variety of contests to try winning Steam keys and game swag during the Steam Game Festival so be sure to check out our full post on contests! About the Game Clan O’C…
