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.
Happy New Year!\n
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\nKeeping this update short, since we are in the thick of development right now, but things are coming along great with Episode 5! Right now, we\'re continuing to hack away at the middle third of the chapter, but we\'re rapidly approaching the point where it will finally be time to move on to the climax.\n\nHere\'s where we are, in numbers:
Over 140,000 words of script have already been fully implemented for the episode. That\'s writing, art, music, sound design, code, and bugfixing, all essentially locked in. For reference, that is about as much content as there was in all of Slay the Princess on release.
[/*]723 sprites have been finished, as well as 64 backgrounds.
[/*]11 new tracks of music have been finished.
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If you want to check out what\'s finished, preview builds are available for the Alpha Tester tier on our Patreon , which also has a dedicated section on our Discord to discuss new content and help us eliminate bugs before release.
Episode 5 has a lot of branching and player agency in it, and it\'s also the first time the story can become locked in to early conclusions, though these endings will still have additional content waiting for them in The Final Chapters. They\'ll also be heavily (diegetically) signposted, and it will be difficult to reach these branches accidentally. This will be the most replayable Episode to date, with many routes to explore with the same start of chapter save file.
One thing I\'d also like to highlight in this update is what the remainder of Scarlet Hollow\'s development is going to look like. While the game is still going to have seven Episodes, the last two are really just a single unit, split into two chapters. They\'ll be released as a single update together, and it\'s best to view Episode 5 as the penultimate \"Episode,\" as well as the game\'s final cliffhanger. So this will be the last opportunity to hop on the train while still leaving room to theorycraft alongside the community. This also means that the conclusion of Scarlet Hollow is probably closer than you think!
All the best, and Happy New Year! We\'re almost there.
Abby and Tony
Minimum Setup
- Processor: 1.8 ghz dual coreMemory: 2 GB RAMStorage: 2 GB available space
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