#rot in paradise

[most-sane-protag-fanboy]

It rots. It all rots.

[racheldrawsthis]

🎃🪦 HAPPY HALLOWEEN 👻🍬

[Art done by me & @ekrixart]

To celebrate the spooky month, STUDIO INVESTIGRAVE is planning to collaborate with Morethanthings (Korean merch manufacturer) for a SIG merch collection of the released games so far!

Please share what type of merch you would like on the survey below ⬇️

[robozombii]

ryan will learn how to swim

i love these two! they should kiss

full canvas below

[disappearenceofsomeone]

ayayayaya!!! these guys!!! urghwhejdhdj

[hazelnootnut]

please come with me. i don't want to be alone in this.

[m4xwell16]

SIG duos i thought would be really funny. i know they’re all like horror games and they all die or whatever but they are actually just all friends trust me

[ekrixart]

Hello!!!! It's been a while since rot in paradise came out but was there a canon reason everybody went in the ocean at the end? I know it was more metaphorical but I was still confused

Typically I don't like giving an outright "this is what the game was about" with projects I work on because I feel it can take away from the player experience and leaves less room for speculation and theorizing. Right after the game came out and for the month during the game jam I wanted people to be able to have their own take away of the game and didn't want to interject or place the idea that there was a "right" way to view it, especially since its a game with a looser plot and I didn't want it to cloud players individual interpretations of it.

A lot of people mentioned feeling like the story hit hard and felt personal to them which tells me that the themes and emotions we were going for were felt by some players but even more players were left confused or frustrated by the ambiguity. I understand that stories with more subjectivity that lean more into surreal visuals and open endings will land for less people but it still falls on the creator to tactfully deliver that message and I agree with a lot of the criticism that Rot in Paradise kinda fell flat of that.

From what Ive seen a lot of people felt like RIP had potential but it didn't follow through or feel cohesive enough. The main story was meant to touch on the themes and feeling of losing loved ones to dangerous ideologies and addiction. There wasn't a set in stone plot reason that everyone on the island falls victim to it, there wasn't a secret wrong thing that all of them did that June didn't- which was intentional to portray it as some people being susceptible to things you wouldn't think as reasonable but also potentially muddled the themes.

It was also meant to work as grounds for making the player feel confused and disoriented and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. There isn't anything that it seems the others interact with that June doesn't, she's able to partake in the same activities everyone else does without it altering her the way it alters them. It's a matter of forces outside her control effecting them more than it effects her and whether she wants to succumb to something she's capable of escaping to stay with her friends or leave them behind as they get worse and worse is up to her.

There were a lot of elements I think that worked against the favor of having that theme work. Even with a lot of the people who did notice and remark upon the message, it felt like the general vibe was "oh heyyy this part kinda sorta reminded me of this theme but idk if that was intentional" rather than a direct "this is what the theme of the game is". Overall while opinions on RIP were more mixed than previous entires I'm excited to tackle stories with more subtextual elements more in depth in the future outside of game jams. Rot in Paradise is probably one of less narratively successful games I've worked on in my opinion but still got me really excited about exploring that space and improving on stories like it in future projects and I'm still really proud of working on it

[knataa]

[gavinom123]

Congrats on the release!

[syonese-cat]

Me when I rot in paradise

[sigverse-brainrot]

[racheldrawsthis]

🏢 아~파트 아파트 💗

[angst1clown]

They should be friends

[aauto-attack]

👻

[disappearenceofsomeone]

augejahsixnj rot….in paradise….. swap au…..

(fucking loved this game urghhhejdhdj the cast was so lovable and so enjoyable, pls play if u can)

anyways here’s who the sillies swapped with:

June —> Ryan,

Ryan —> June,

McCoy—> Vonnie,

Carmen —> Mccoy

Vonnie —> Carmen