The game has a new name. From today it's The Hollow Moors.
Why change it
It started as a side project, the kind you make to see whether an idea holds up, and it got a side project's name: picked in a hurry, mostly by an AI throwing out suggestions until one sounded about right. Nobody checked whether it was taken. It didn't seem to matter.
It matters now. The game has grown into the main thing I work on, with a story, a beta on the way and a Steam release to come, and it turns out Lantern Hollow was never ours alone. Other games already go by that name, and sharing it helps nobody, least of all anyone trying to find this one.
So it has the name it would have had if I'd planned it as a proper game from the start, and that name was hiding in plain sight. The sign you pass on the drive in has always said the Hollow Moors. The camp is Hollow Moor Camp, the station is Hollow Beck, and the thing you hope not to meet out there is the Hollow. It has been the Hollow Moors all along. Now the title says so too.
What changes
- The name. This site has it from today, and the game from the next build: the title screen, the icon and the app on your phone.
- The address. The site now lives at thehollowmoors.com. The old address still works and brings you here.
What doesn't
- Your worlds, your account and your purchase. Same email, same password, and everything picks up where you left off. The site may ask you to sign in once more at the new address.
- The game. Same moor, same fire, same sixty-two nights to the millennium.
Thanks for sticking with it while it found its name. See you at the fire.