Ep 3 Hotfix 1
Fixed a couple display bugs as well as a crash during Tabitha's hangout.
Scarlet Hollow News
Episode 3 is Here!
Hello everyone!
After many months of love, blood, sweat, and tears, Scarlet Hollow Episode 3 is finally here for you to enjoy. This episode has been an absolute passion project for us, and we're eternally grateful for the support and patience you've given us. This game wouldn't be possible without you.
Happy haunting,
Abby and Tony
After many months of love, blood, sweat, and tears, Scarlet Hollow Episode 3 is finally here for you to enjoy. This episode has been an absolute passion project for us, and we're eternally grateful for the support and patience you've given us. This game wouldn't be possible without you.
Happy haunting,
Abby and Tony
Episode 3 is Releasing on March 7th!
Hi again, everyone!
We're nearing Episode 3's completion, so we finally have a release date for y'all: March 7th.
We both feel pretty strongly that this new chapter is the best Scarlet Hollow has been to date, and we can't wait to share with you. Sorry it took a little longer than expected-- because we always want to be as a transparent as possible with y'all, we wanted to explain why there was a bit of a delay:
First up, Episode 3 is huge. Like, as much content as Episodes 1 and 2 put together huge. There's close to 200,000 words of new content (of which you'll maybe see about 1/4-1/3 in a given playthrough) and over 1,500 new art assets. For reference, Episodes 1 and 2 were each about 100,000 words of content, bringing the total for all three to around 400k. For further reference, the Lord of the Rings (all of it) is 481,000 words long.
Next, the less fun— back in December, we both got (thankfully mild) Covid cases staggered about a week apart and then we both got the flu (again, staggered about a week apart.) At the time, we didn't think it would have such a heavy impact on our ability to work, but we wanted to prioritize our health during that that time, and we unfortunately lost about a month of productivity to being sick and taking turns taking care of each other.
We also moved to a completely new city in the fall, and that kind of giant move took a lot more time and energy than we thought it would!
And finally, the lead up to Episode 2's release was a horrendous crunch (about 3 weeks of 14-16 hours a day, making up for time lost to stress during the mess that was living in the US in the Fall and Winter of 2020.) For this episode, we wanted to make sure to give ourselves some extra time and padding upfront so we wouldn't have to deal with similar crunch again (which also means we'll be able to do more bug testing before release).
Thank you all again for your patience and support as we continue to make Scarlet Hollow the story we want it to be, and we hope you feel that Episode 3 is worth the wait— we certainly think it is!
All the best,
~Tony and Abby
We're nearing Episode 3's completion, so we finally have a release date for y'all: March 7th.
We both feel pretty strongly that this new chapter is the best Scarlet Hollow has been to date, and we can't wait to share with you. Sorry it took a little longer than expected-- because we always want to be as a transparent as possible with y'all, we wanted to explain why there was a bit of a delay:
First up, Episode 3 is huge. Like, as much content as Episodes 1 and 2 put together huge. There's close to 200,000 words of new content (of which you'll maybe see about 1/4-1/3 in a given playthrough) and over 1,500 new art assets. For reference, Episodes 1 and 2 were each about 100,000 words of content, bringing the total for all three to around 400k. For further reference, the Lord of the Rings (all of it) is 481,000 words long.
Next, the less fun— back in December, we both got (thankfully mild) Covid cases staggered about a week apart and then we both got the flu (again, staggered about a week apart.) At the time, we didn't think it would have such a heavy impact on our ability to work, but we wanted to prioritize our health during that that time, and we unfortunately lost about a month of productivity to being sick and taking turns taking care of each other.
We also moved to a completely new city in the fall, and that kind of giant move took a lot more time and energy than we thought it would!
And finally, the lead up to Episode 2's release was a horrendous crunch (about 3 weeks of 14-16 hours a day, making up for time lost to stress during the mess that was living in the US in the Fall and Winter of 2020.) For this episode, we wanted to make sure to give ourselves some extra time and padding upfront so we wouldn't have to deal with similar crunch again (which also means we'll be able to do more bug testing before release).
Thank you all again for your patience and support as we continue to make Scarlet Hollow the story we want it to be, and we hope you feel that Episode 3 is worth the wait— we certainly think it is!
All the best,
~Tony and Abby
Vote for Scarlet Hollow in the GDWC Fan Favorites!
Hiya folks!
Scarlet Hollow is up for the overall fan-favorite award at the Game Development World Championship, and with your help, we can totally cinch it! Please head on over to their website and vote for us. Voting should be pretty easy — you don't have to make an account or provide any personal info.
URL for voting: https://thegdwc.com/fanfav/
Episode 3 is currently chugging along, and should hopefully be ready at the end of February. Our development cycle was a little derailed for a couple of weeks by (thankfully mild) covid, but we're closing in on the final act of the Episode right now. The release version should be quite a bit more content than either previous Episode, though some of that content will, of course, be spread across multiple playthroughs.
In case you missed it on twitter the other day, here's a full reveal of Reese's room!
Cheers,
Tony and Abby
Scarlet Hollow is up for the overall fan-favorite award at the Game Development World Championship, and with your help, we can totally cinch it! Please head on over to their website and vote for us. Voting should be pretty easy — you don't have to make an account or provide any personal info.
URL for voting: https://thegdwc.com/fanfav/
Episode 3 is currently chugging along, and should hopefully be ready at the end of February. Our development cycle was a little derailed for a couple of weeks by (thankfully mild) covid, but we're closing in on the final act of the Episode right now. The release version should be quite a bit more content than either previous Episode, though some of that content will, of course, be spread across multiple playthroughs.
In case you missed it on twitter the other day, here's a full reveal of Reese's room!
Cheers,
Tony and Abby
Scarlet Hollow Headlines Kotaku 2021 Best Of List!
In some exciting and entirely unexpected news, Scarlet Hollow wound up topping Kotaku editor John Walker's list of the 10 best games of 2021! It's absolutely wild to think that our still-in-progress game's already gotten this level of recognition! We wouldn't be here without your support and enthusiasm for our game, so thanks so much to each and every one of you from helping us along on this incredible journey.
Absolutely nuts to wake up to this Tweet! As a holiday treat and a celebration of this win, have some more preview art for Episode 3. A garden, but whose???
Happy New Year!
~Tony and Abby
Absolutely nuts to wake up to this Tweet! As a holiday treat and a celebration of this win, have some more preview art for Episode 3. A garden, but whose???
Happy New Year!
~Tony and Abby