Average Scarlet Hollow dev update is like: Hey everyone Tony and Abby here to let you all know that we're still working in the next chapter. The script is currently 280,000 words long (likely going to be at least 50,000 more by the next update) and the grand total is 1,500,000 words long. This is because we have to account for all the branching pathways that consider literally every little choice you make so we gotta consider what it's like for a comp-sci major living in an apartment with a cat (which they can talk to because of weird powers) that's just been cursed to be 10 years older to interact with a band of rats (which gives you a line of dialogue only maybe 0.1% of players will ever see). Abby has been hard at work drawing 86 new backgrounds and new 827 sprites (yes including the stuff for the gilf and various monster romance routes) and Brandon has made 15 new tracks of the most haunting music you've ever heard. We've been having lots of fun and hope you're all doing well with the wait!!
scarlet hollow is so funny if you don’t have keen eye and don’t take the deal in chapter 3 bc like. YES the horrors are after YOU but somehow this random single dad and his kid are having an even worse time. repeatedly. the mysterious forces of the town are like you have to pay for the crimes of your ancestors but also ☝️ fuck this one other family in particular
most important part of the scarlet hollow one month announcement
Thursday night
I saw some art of Oscar and Rosalina and I wanted to make something before mid February
One month left until Scarlet Hollow Episode 5's release.
Over 250,000 words of new, intricately branching narrative to explore. The consequences of your actions are coming home to roost. Some bonds strengthen, and others shatter. You don't know what's coming.
If you've yet to come home to the Holler, now's the perfect time to play the first episode for free...
Morning sketch
And two spicy sketches under the cut
the other day i saw a tiktok of a woman talking about how her hyper-militant abusive parents would sometimes punish her by “taking away her name” and referring to her as a prisoner number. genuinely terrible stuff, obviously. but i skimmed the comments and. listen. i truly DO NOT mean to dunk too hard on this person, like they could be a kid or something, but.
just. breathtaking. imagine if your primary reference for the concept of the un-personing of prisoners was (check notes) a book series about owls.
This is why it's important to Include stuff like this in fiction, especially ya fiction. It can be a lot of sheltered and/or indoctrinated children, in the case of a lot of rural "Christians", first introduction to these types of concepts in a way they can understand.
I don't think there's anything weird or shameful about it. Knowledge is knowledge, regardless of where it came from.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how SWEET it is that canonically, in-universe, clone trooper dolls are a thing? All throughout the Republic, enough kids wanted a little clone trooper friend of their own, to hug and play with and have to protect them from nightmares, toy manufacturers actually took note. Think about that.