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.
Hello cousins!\n\nNow that the script for Episode 5 is finished, it\'s a lot easier for us to give you all quantifiable progress updates, so we\'re switching over to a monthly cadence!\n\nWe\'ll include some art previews this time around, but the deeper we get into development, the more spoiler-heavy sharing art would be, so as we get closer to release, previews will stop being part of these posts.\n\nWith that out of the way, it\'s been three weeks since the script was finally finished, and in that time we\'ve:
The final draft of 10 out of 45 script files have been finished. This includes any edits and extensions to script that needed to be done with those files, adding game logic and variables, and general formatting. These files don\'t have any assets added to them yet (backgrounds, sprites, SFX, music.)
[list]It\'s worth noting that script files are not all equal in length. Some script files are several thousand lines of code (significantly longer than a given route in Slay the Princess) while others are just a few hundred lines. In general, the files that have been finished so far are on the longer side.
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The recap for Episode 4 has been finished, and the recap in general has been refactored so it\'s easier to edit.
[/*]14 backgrounds have been fully finished (pencils, inks, colors) and another 3 are partially finished (pencils and inks.)
[/*]Two tracks of music have been finished and mastered.
[/*]The opening sequences in Episode 5 will have roughly 27 backgrounds, 140 sprites, and 4 or 5 tracks of new music. Once all of those assets are finished, that segment will be going out as an alpha build to our Patrons , who play a huge part in helping us make sure that our releases are polished and bug free by the time they hit Steam.
The upper bounds for these assets are subject to change as development goes on. Sometimes script files get scrapped entirely. Sometimes one giant file is broken down into several smaller files. Often, we wind up needing a little more art than we anticipated. BUT, sharing our estimates now seems like the best way to give you all a benchmark to see how things are coming.
And now what you\'ve really been waiting for! Art previews...
We\'re really happy with how the art in Episode 5 has turned out so far Abby\'s really leveled up over the years!
[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/40371863/6c67ac3a4550d4e5be5096dc14f59bb3987b6781.png\"][/img]A desk... but whose?\n
[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/40371863/3e1384b6c95ae6f3f12d7a313afa02ddffd9ee41.png\"][/img]
[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/40371863/db6a7a41011fde47c9fbebddd42d2cd8b588f0ce.png\"][/img]
[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/40371863/c5a848883ecb9348ff53215f05b01c172aedbfea.jpg\"][/img]
[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/40371863/fd99fb99d78ef26b0ccc480bef7341957ce0b91e.png\"][/img]
Process images for another background, so you can see what the game\'s art looks like at different stages.
That\'s all we\'ve got for you right now! If you want more ways to stay up to date and chat with other fans, don\'t forget to join our mailing list or visit our Discord !
All the best, and see you all next month!\nTony and Abby
Minimum Setup
- Processor: 1.8 ghz dual coreMemory: 2 GB RAMStorage: 2 GB available space
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