Monster Prom is a dating simulation game developed by Beautiful Glitch, a studio based in Barcelona and founded by Julián Quijano, and published by Those Awesome Guys. The game was released for Windows, macOS and Linux on 27 April 2018 and was distributed on Steam. A Nintendo Switch release was launched on 21 May 2020. Monster Prom was written by Julián Quijano, Cory O’Brien and Maggie Herskowitz, illustrated by Arthur Tien, and programmed by Elías Pereiras. Players assume the role of a student at Spooky High (later renamed to Spooky Academy as of Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip), a school populated by monsters, as they attempt to find a date to prom. Wikipedia
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Kretzschmar, Mark, and Anastasia Salter. “Party Ghosts and Queer Teen Wolves: Monster Prom and Resisting Heteronormativity in Dating Simulators.” In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, pp. 1-8. 2020.
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