Roses are Deep is a short narrative-based game about writing deep poems. You assume the role of a traditionally unnamed main character (MC) who has recently joined a poetry club after school. They are new to writing poetry, so they don't feel too confident yet, especially about their vocabulary. Because of this, they spend some of their free time reading through the dictionary, with the hopes of becoming a better poet and writing deeper poetry using more expressive words.

Fortunately, MC's quest is not as lonely as it sounds, as a kindhearted young lady called Rose helps them by listening to their poetry and helping them improve. MC likes this so much, in fact, that they end up tailoring their poems to make them more to Rose's liking. In the process the two's relationship develops and MC gets to reach the depths of Rose's heart, finding out who she truly is, beneath her surface.

Note: As both of us had some things come up, the game is far from completion (we'd say about 1/4th of the way there), but since we are both happy with the result, we decided to share this prototype with the LD community nonetheless. Hope y'all can get some enjoyment out of it!

Credits:

Graphics, Programming, Game Design - Pirate Shell and Dandeleon

Music, Sounds: Pirate Shell