Nostalgia

What are the devs favorite ships?! And do they have any ships they find problematic or do you all support everyone's desire to ship what they want?

Favourite ending so far?

Cory O’Brien (Writer): The halloween one, definitely. Half the fun was writing the events, half was writing the end credits music, and half was watching fan reactions in the discord. That’s three halves, but that’s fine because the dread Z’Gord defies mortal mathematics. 

Maggie Herskowitz (Writer): [SPOILER ALERT!!!!!] MIRANDA SLAUGHTERING THE WATER POLO TEAM!!! I was in Costa Rica volunteering at a wildlife rescue center when Monster Prom came out in 2018 and all of the volunteers would get together at night after work was finished and unwind with some sensible monster filth. I became really close friends with this very very sweet girl from Australia… who stumbled upon this route during a playthrough. I wrote the route, so the second the omelet thing happened, I knew exaaactly what was going on, and which choices she needed to make for what her stats were, so I guided her through it event by event and she was so happy things were going well with Miranda (and didn’t realize how interlinked the events were, which, of course, is the point of that route). The LOOK ON HER FACE when she realized she helped Miranda commit ALL THE MURDER was so genuinely shocked and betrayed and horrified and delighted and amused and HORRIFIED it was just. Absolutely perfect, the epitome of Monster Prom, 10/10 would prank Jana again.

Jesse Cox (Producer): The orgy ending. Can I say that? Not cause it’s about sex, it’s about business. But also it screws literally everyone else out of a date.

Arthur Tien (Lead Artist): I don’t know most of them. I really enjoyed drawing the family pics though.

Julián Quijano (Creative Director & Writer): So, fun fact: I’ve written all the endings (not the routes, like the text you get by the end if you unlock the secret ending)! 

I loved writing some of the Winter special ones. Scott’s winter ending was super delightful to write, since it is PURE WHOLESOMENESS. I loved breaking both the game’s tone and the 4th wall to remind people to tell their loved ones how much they loved them. 

On the opposited side of the spectrum, another winter special ending: Miranda’s death. It was amazing to design and write at so many levels. The funeral art is beautiful, the writing on the epilogue is emotional and a bit too real on calling out Miranda’s severe flaws as a character, and when we decided to go with no music for the credits we were like “WOAH… we might have crossed a line here… WE NEED TO SEE HOW PEOPLE REACT TO THIS”. Hilarious. 

Also, of course, the Prank Masterz ending is an instant classic. Our first opportunity on going an extra mile on endings, by creating an original song with dedicated art. It was hilarious. Shout out to Jesse Cox, who enlightened us with the idea of pairing the bleak visuals of the credits with a silly rap song. What a genius!