kati's gallery

Hello!! This is my announcement post to start out this account for the debut game of Sip Sip Soup Studio, Ratacombs!

I don't use a lot of social media myself so I thought tumblr would be a great place to dip my toes before branching out to other sites. I'm a big Strange Aeons fan actually but I also posted art on here when I was younger, so I'm somewhat familiar with the Tumblr culture? But honestly I am terrible at social media etiquette/use so please feel free to correct me. I am a forever lurker in my personal life.

ANYWAYS! We're a team of three, an artist/programmer (me, Noemi), an artist (Kati), and a sound person (Petu). We all really like social deduction games like Among Us, Blood on the Clocktower, Town of Salem, etc. (Kati played Among Us back in 2018!). We also all really like "friendslop" games like Lethal Company, PEAK, R.E.P.O., Phasmophobia, etc. So the game mechanics are kind of a mix of the more typical silly 3D "friendslop" game-design style that's been emerging with the social deduction, "lie to your friends" aspect of Among Us, BotC, etc. You play as a rat in a cult exploring dangerous catacombs and the castle above it to prepare a ritual to sacrifice one of your friends (unbeknownst to said friend). In some ways it kind of flips the typical "mafia" style social deduction game, where instead of few lying to many it is many lying to one. I'll get more into the specific mechanics in a future post!

The art style is 2.5D medieval and retro with a focus on the colorful and bizarre-ness medieval art is so known for. It's also a horror game so it's like, a whismical horror game if you can imagine that. We have a professor of medieval art and culture as an advisor to help us find good resources for all that.

We've been working on it for a few months now and have a lot of cool stuff to show, so I'll definitely be making some posts going more into depth on the game mechanics, artstyle, audio, and more! I kept some related ramblings out of this post to avoid it being too lengthy, but please let me know if the tumblr would prefer lengthier, more info-dumpy posts -- I'd be happy to oblige :) If you'd like to join our community, we have a discord server (and a fluxxer server with no current members if anyone is privacy-minded). We don't have a public Steam page yet, so social media or discord is the best way to stay up to date with what we're up to. You can also sign up to playtest the game via discord.