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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.

Every background in the game is drawn by hand and inked on massive 19x24 inch paper.

Dozens of meticulously hand-drawn and traditionally inked backgrounds. My new short story book, entitled, Hollow Bark and Other Short Stories, is available on Amazon e-book Keep Writing.

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. You won't find any predictable vampires or zombies here.

Original monster designs inspired by Appalachian myths and cryptids.

Are you quiet and observant? Hot and clueless? 21 different character builds change how you interact with the world and how your story unfolds. Scarlet Hollow's dialogue system is driven by role-playing elements that let you choose who you want to be.

Trait-based dialogue and role-playing.

Become friendly rivals, bitter adversaries, best friends, or mild acquaintances with everyone in town based on how you approach the story. The Scarlets The Player Character The protagonist of Scarlet Hollow. Characters don't just like or dislike you.

A complex relationship system that changes how characters act around you.

Charming characters and snappy dialogue flip to pulse-pounding horror at a moment's notice. The relationships you forge and the decisions you make will dramatically alter your journey.

A heavily branching narrative where your choices matter.

Who lives, who dies, and the fate of an entire town rests on your shoulders. 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.

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The first two are already released for you to play, with the remaining episodes to follow as free updates as we finish them. On the development side, I'd say it's probably important to make sure you understand the scope of what you're making and to avoid letting too much feature creep set in.Scarlet Hollow is being released across 7 episodes. There's a huge general consensus, for instance, that early access is a terrible idea for a lot of games and that it's an extra terrible idea for narrative games, but here we are, having an as big or bigger launch for Episode 3 than we had for Episode 2. Don't just do things because people say 'this is what you should do' or 'this is what you shouldn't do.'ĭifferent marketing tools are just that: tools, so be conscious of what they do and when and where they're useful. I think it's important to be intentional with your marketing strategy. Well, if you want a deep dive on marketing pitfalls, I've got a whole post-mortem on that: Tabitha– A little scratchy and high, probably similar to Grey DeLisle (specifically as Mandy from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy) Sybil– an older southern woman, though her accent is not very pronounced. A bit of an Adam Driver, if you will (though not quite that low lmao) Orson Welles, but minus the extremely fancy way Mr Welles talks. Oscar– A Dadly voice, that of an older man who speaks from the chest. You hear this person talk and know nothing has ever bothered them, ever. Their laugh is one of those little chuckles that cool people do. I can imagine it really well but have a hard time coming up with a good example, alas!Īvery– Similar to Stella, but even more chill and a little lower.

Kaneeka– A little higher than Stella’s, and a little girlier. Stella– A low, chill woman’s voice, something similar to Sarah Marshall from the You’re Wrong About podcast. That’s a good question! I don’t tend to imagine voices while writing, but I do have a general idea of their vibes: We'll start answering questions at 1pm EST!ĮDIT: Thank you so much for joining us, we had a great time! Might pop our heads back in later to answer any other questions that trickle in ^^ Writing - Abby and TonyArt - AbbyProgramming, Game Design, Business- TonyMusic - Brandon In case the division of labor helps with your questions, here's who does what! We're also joined by our incredible, award-winning composer Brandon Boone ( u/wondrous_sound) whose work you might recognize from The NoSleep Podcast and The White Vault I'm joined by my wife Abby Howard ( u/abby722.) Outside of this project, you might know her from her exhaustive work in webcomics - she's the writer and artist behind The Last Halloween and Junior Scientist Power Hour, as well as the Ignatz-winning one woman horror anthology The Crossroads at Midnight. Episode 3 just came out, and it's a spooky good time!

Hi! I'm Tony Howard-Arias, one of the creative leads on Scarlet Hollow, an award-winning indie narrative horror game that we're releasing episodically on Steam.

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