Hey folks! Quickly popping in to give an update about our timeline for a few things, and to highlight some of the changes/new content we've recently made available on our studio's Patreon page. We won't be talking about our Patreon here often, but since we just added a bunch of new content, and are soft-relaunching our alpha testing tier, we wanted to take the chance to let people know that it exists!
Also, before we get started, here's an obligatory extra plug to join our Discord, /r/scarlethollow, and/or to follow us on Twitter if you haven't already!
First thing's first, the summer content patch is finished, and has entered alpha. This build is available to Patrons in our alpha tier, who'll also get extra early access to work-in-progress builds of Episode 4, as well as work in progress builds for our yet to be announced second game. Generally speaking, we're planning to make alpha builds available up to the big event in a given Episode (the mines in Episode 2, the haunting in Episode 3, etc) with that final stretch being fully-closed testing only so everyone is on the same page for the full release of an Episode.
The summer content patch will be released to the rest of the player-base in about two weeks! Among other things, this patch contains buffs/tweaks to a number of traits, with Powerful Build, Mystical, and Hot seeing the biggest changes. We've also reworked some art assets to be more on-model with how the game's developed over time, and we've added all sorts of little goodies and easter eggs for y'all to find!
A taste of some of the new art.
Patrons also get access to an HD wallpaper pack. When we first scan backgrounds into photoshop, they're natively in 8k, so there's a lot of extra detail to find in these bigger backgrounds! There's about 25 backgrounds right now, and we plan to add a couple more every month. The link to these backgrounds, as well as some extra early previews on what else we've been working on, can be found at this link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67259562
Finally, we're a little over halfway through our crowdfund for limited edition Bus Guy shirts, and a little over 2/3 of the way to our stretch goal, which'll see every order get a bonus "I Want to Yeah' sticker thrown in.
As for the second game we mentioned earlier in this post, we'll be announcing it at some point in the next month or so, so keep your eyes peeled for that, too!
As always, thank you all for you continued support as we strive to make Scarlet Hollow the best game it can be!
~Tony and Abby