Scarlet Hollow News

changed the music track playing in one of the new scenes

Hey folks!

It's been a little while and we've got a new update for you.

Here's what's new:

• A couple new short scenes to flesh out the tail end of Episode 1.
• Some updated sprites.
• Fixes for all of the typos and minor bugs found since late December.
• Better controller support. (Still a work in progress)

While we still have plans to add an additional ending to Episode 4 as well as some extra dialogue options, we're tabling those changes for the time being — they weren't quite landing right for us, and we only want to add new content when it elevates the experience. And we also don't want to spend too much time lingering on additions to Episode 4 when we've been eager to move onto what comes next.

SO! With this update published, we're now turning our full attentions to writing Slay the Princess (free demo available if you haven't had the chance to try it out) and Episode 5!

Can't wait to share more with y'all~
~Tony + Abby

Hey everyone!

Two fun pieces of news today—

The first is that we've launched a Steam bundle with Meredith Gran's wonderful Perfect Tides — it's a point-and-click coming of age story, and it was one of my favorite games of the past year, so we're really excited to be able to put this together. Anyone who owns Scarlet Hollow is able to pick up Perfect Tides for a 10% discount, and if you *don't* already own Scarlet Hollow, you can pick up both games for 10% off.

Like all bundles, this discount stacks with other sales, and there'll likely be a coordinated discount between both of our games at some point in the next month or so. Perfect Tides is absolutely worth the pick-up at full price though! A sequel is also in the works, so if you're interested in point and click games, please head on over and give it a wishlist.

We've also got a new HD wallpaper pack up for download for $5 and above patrons, which also contains our previous wallpaper packs for Episodes 1-3. All in all, these packs contain 47 unique backgrounds, and they're all available in native 4k, 2k, and 1080p, so if that's the sort of thing that that strikes your fancy, please check out our page here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/77016578?pr=true

We've just gotten back to work in the past week, and are gearing up for the home stretch of the Episode 4 patch we mentioned back in December. We've also been hard at working building out the structure of both Slay the Princess and Episode 5 of Scarlet Hollow, with more details to come as we get further in development!

Hey cousins!

The Steam Winter Sale is here, and with it, the last discount we're running on Scarlet Hollow before we hike the base price to $24.99 in early January. The upcoming price hike makes the current 20% off sale the equivalent of 36% off the new price, so if you've been looking for a good opportunity to pick up Scarlet Hollow, now's likely the cheapest the game will be before we finish Episode 7 and leave Early Access!

We also wanted to take this opportunity to do a bit of news roundup, as well as to talk about what's coming next for Scarlet Hollow and our studio!

First, some news:

• Scarlet Hollow once again made John Walker's list of the best games of 2022, both on Kotaku and on Buried Treasure. We were his Game of the Year last year, so it's great to make his list two years running.
  
• We also made Kotaku's list of the top 18 current PC games. Pretty rad.
  
• We were nominated for an impact award, as well as several other awards at this year's MEGAMIGS convention up in Montreal.
  
• We were included in IGN's face-off for the best horror games — there was no way we were going to beat the combined weight of every resident evil + silent hill game, but hey, we put up a fight!
  
• Y'all helped us overfund our Wayne plush campaign, so there'll probably be more merch to run in the future!
  

And last but certainly not least, a development timeline of what's coming next for our studio:

• Abby and I are taking our first multi-week long vacation in years — starting roughly around when this post goes live. I'll fix any emergency bugs that crop up, but for the most part, we'll be resting for a bit.
  
• In January, we have a content patch planned for the first 4 Episodes, including a new resolution to Episode 4's major conflict, a new scene for Episode 1, some new art, some new achievements and some small buffs to underpicked traits.
  
• Once that's up, we're going to be working on Episode 5 and Slay the Princess in parallel.
  
• (If you haven't checked out Slay the Princess yet, it's a small, fully-voice acted side project we started working on during some of our downtime. It features the incredible voice talents of Jonny Sims (The Magnus Archives) and Nichole Goodnight (The NoSleep Podcast, a lot of other stuff.) There's a roughly 90 minute demo you can check out right now for free on Steam! Wishlists are always appreciated if you want an easy way to show your support!
  
• Our writing process is such that only one of us is touching the script for either game at any point in time, so Slay the Princess' development should have minimal impact on Episode 5's timeline. We're shooting for a Summer release for Slay the Princess, and hoping Episode 5 will be ready either late next year, or early the following year.
  
• It's probably not surprising right now, but Episode 5 is once again an increase in scope and ambition over Episode 4, so we're going to make sure it has all of the time in the oven it needs to live up to the vision we have for it. I think y'all are
• really* gonna like what we've got planned, though ^^
  

Once we're in the new year, we'll be putting out monthly updates tracking our progress for both games!

Thank you all for your patience and support — you're the reason we can make Scarlet Hollow as the game we want it to be, and we're so grateful for all y'all!

Happy holidays,
Tony + Abby

A few more assorted fixes, removed link to Wayne plush campaign now that it's ended.

Happy holidays!