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News: Developer learns community page actually exists!

Thank you so much to those of you who joined this community and my sincere apologies and great admission of stupidity in that I literally learned today that this community feature existed! Needless to say, now I know this is here, I will be posting regular updates including a pile of stuff I updated on the game and never shared!

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Community11 Jun 2026The Detectorist Guild - Welcome To Shiverly: Every Signal Tells a StoryHello Treasure Hunters! Are you ready to get your hands dirty? In The Detectorist Guild , you’ll play as James, a budding detectorist with a knack for finding things other people have lost. Armed with his trusty metal detector, you’ll help the locals recover missing belongings, discover forgotten artefacts and slowly piece together a mystery hidden deep within the village’s past. Set in Yorkshi…Major update13 Aug 2025Fully revised demo releasedThanks to everyone who has tried the game so far. I have been adding a heap of new features and quality of life upgrades and have finally got these into a build. I will aim to update more frequently in the run up to the full game being released in December. List of Major Changes New village map + fast travel system New areas to explore, including the forest and canal Brand new soundtrack, featu…In-game event24 Jul 2025Run n' Map updateThanks to our play-testers who noted three things: 1) we'd like to move faster; 2) we don't know where we're going; 3) where are the achievements?! Some excellent points. The game now has a little run button, boosting movement speed by x2 and I honestly don't know how I managed without it. There is also a village map and I took the opportunity to revamp the menu items more generally. I have als…