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.

Steam Deck Freezing Fix (I hope)

Hey folks!

We've been running into a recurring issue with a small subset of Steam Deck players where the game would regularly freeze on them. I haven't been able to replicate the issues on my own deck, but it seems likely that this issue was, ironically enough, introduced back when Ren'py officially added Steam Deck support. The Ren'py devs are aware of this issue (other devs have reported it as well), but we haven't received any updates lately, and we didn't want to leave affected deck users hanging any longer.

This latest patch recompiled the game in the last version of Ren'py that was available prior to official Steam Deck support. Hopefully, using this early version of the engine should resolve the issue, and as far as I'm aware, there hasn't been any important functionality (aside from some light performance improvements) introduced in more recent versions.

Since I haven't been able to replicate the deck freezing issue on my own end, though, I have no idea if this actually fixes the issue. If you have a deck, especially if you've been running into this problem, please let me know if it persists or if it seems to be resolved!

(And if you're suddenly running into other issues due to the engine rollback, please likewise let me know if that's the case!)

Apologies for any inconveniences folks have run into over this, and hopefully this gets things working for everyone again!

Thanks!
~Tony

[ 2022-11-02 17:50:13 CET ] [Original Post]