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princessmo

Boy why u so phone

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Dance gay boys, dance

#alien stage #alnst ivan #alnst till #alnst #ivantill

ekrixart

i cant stop drawing him

crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington

i turned 21 today, all i can say is that it gets better

ekrixart

What is Vince’s ideal type in a man? Would it be an opposites attract sort of thing?

something like that

racheldrawsthis

what happened to CD being the protag for jcc? sorry its been a minute since i was on tumblr

It was actually already announced on the official studio discord server & my twitter account last summer that there was going to be a massive rewrite of JCC as a whole & the protagonist will be changed, and that this decision was made in December 2023!

But don't worry, C.D will still be in the game, we just thought both narratively and thematically a different role would suit vir a lot better where vir character and gimmick/concept can shine in its full potential- and you'll find out what that is once the chapters actually release!

ekrixart

Have you worked on any games outside of Studio Investigrave releases?

Nope, just investigrave right now!

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

racheldrawsthis

Hiiii ! I'm not sure if anyone ever asked, but i was wondering, how do you feel about people drawing nsfw of yours ocs? No pressure to answer, I'm just really curious

EVIL!!! how could anyone DO such a VILE and DISGUSTING thing!!! send me links so i know how i can definitely avoid them haha

ekrixart

I’m new here, to the fan base and whatnot.

and I don’t know much aside from what I can dig up by scrolling when bored.

Who is Eddie? I see him float around on Rachel’s accounts, in her sketches with Benny…And I’m so curious. I wanna know if he’s a character in a game, if he’s just an oc, how he knows Benny, everything and anything you wanna say, But I can’t find any sort of info in him.

He's an oc of mine! I originally made him for call of cthulu rps where he interacted Rach's character Benny. We really liked how they both meshed so since then we've drawn them interacting a lot- Bennys canonically going to be in the upcoming SIG game Jackpot Crash Course while Eddie hasn't been set for anything yet though I also talked about him a bit more here and here