Scarlet Hollow (tuxdb.com)

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Trapped in the dying Appalachian mining town of Scarlet Hollow for the funeral of your estranged aunt, you quickly find yourself at the center of a dark mystery that threatens your life and the fate of an entire town. Who lives, who dies, and the fate of an entire town rests on your shoulders.

Features

A heavily branching narrative where your choices matter. The relationships you forge and the decisions you make will dramatically alter your journey.
Terrifying and funny. Charming characters and snappy dialogue flip to pulse-pounding horror at a moment's notice.
A complex relationship system that changes how characters act around you. Characters don't just like or dislike you. Become friendly rivals, bitter adversaries, best friends, or mild acquaintances with everyone in town based on how you approach the story.
Trait-based dialogue and role-playing. Scarlet Hollow's dialogue system is driven by role-playing elements that let you choose who you want to be. Are you quiet and observant? Hot and clueless? 21 different character builds change how you interact with the world and how your story unfolds.
Original monster designs inspired by Appalachian myths and cryptids. You won't find any predictable vampires or zombies here.
Five romance options. Whether you're into goths, dads, Youtubers, mysterious recluses, or lo-fi beats to study and water your plants to, we've got all your bases covered.
Dozens of meticulously hand-drawn and traditionally inked backgrounds. Every background in the game is drawn by hand and inked on massive 19x24 inch paper.
Hundreds of immersive sprites. Each major character has dozens of hand-drawn sprites that interact with backgrounds and capture a full range of lighting, emotion, environment, and outfit changes.

4/25 Patch Notes and Roadmap

Hey everyone!

Sorry there was a bit of a gap before these fixes went out, it's been a really busy month!

Fixes include:

- Typos
- Avery disappearing for a single frame near the end of episode 3
- A few instances of broken game logic, including for runs where you see Isaacs (missing flag for your post Isaacs hangout choice leading to some weird interactions with Tabitha) and a line of questioning shunting players on a "leave" path at the end of episode 3 to a dialogue tree for the book smart path. The latter should have no impact on your save, though the issue with Isaacs might have minor cascading impacts on the rest of that run. Our deepest apologies for missing that until now! Hopefully, the fact that it took so long to catch this bug means that its long-term issues are minimal.

What's next?

We're hard at work on Episode 4 - the script is somewhere around halfway done, though it's always hard to estimate these things when you're in the middle of it.

We're also working on a content patch for the first three episodes that we're hoping to have out some time in June that'll add some of the following:

More flirting options, both for the hot trait and for non hot players.
Fleshing out some dialogue menus that feel like they could use more varied responses.
Even more trait specific dialogue, as well as some added trait-specific narration.
Updating some old art assets to be more consistent with the rest of the game.

Thanks so much for your continued support! And if you'd like to chat with other fans and theorize on what's to come, don't forget to join the Discord !

[ 2022-04-25 23:57:47 CET ] [Original Post]