This wikia is about Prison Architect, a game made by British game developer Introversion Software. Prison Architect is a game made by British game developer Introversion Software. The game is a two dimensional private prison construction and management simulation, where the player is responsible for managing various aspects of the prison including building facilities, planning, hiring. The Prison Architect Wiki. Build and Manage A Maximum Security Prison. Prison Architect is the world's latest Prison Management Sim. Starting with an empty plot of land you must construct a holding cell with basic water and electricity to house your first batch of prisoners, to buy you enough time to create a proper cell block.
| Prison Architect | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Introversion Software (2015−19) Double Eleven (2019−) |
| Publisher(s) | Introversion Software (2015−2019) Paradox Interactive (tablet version) Double Eleven (console version) Paradox Interactive (2019−) |
| Producer(s) | Mark Morris |
| Designer(s) | Chris Delay |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch |
| Release |
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| Genre(s) | Construction and management simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Prison Architect is a private prisonconstruction and management simulation video game developed by Introversion Software.[1] It was made available as a crowdfunded paid alpha pre-order on September 25, 2012 with updates scheduled every three to four weeks.[2] With over 2,000,000 copies sold, Prison Architect made over US$10.7 million in pre-order sales for the alpha version.[3]Prison Architect was an entrant in the 2012 Independent Games Festival.[4]
The game was available on Steam's Early Access program, and was officially released on October 6, 2015.
On January 8, 2019, it was announced that Paradox Interactive had acquired the rights to Prison Architect for an undisclosed sum.[5]
Gameplay[edit]
The game is a top-down 2D (with a partially 3D mode)[6] construction and management simulation where the player takes control of building and running a prison. The player is responsible for managing various aspects of their prison including building cells and facilities, planning and connecting utilities, hiring and assigning staff, including a warden, guards, workers, and more. The player needs to recruit staff to unlock more aspects of the game. The player is also responsible for the finances of their prison, and for keeping their inmates content. The player's role is of both architect and governor with sandbox micromanagement themes such as choosing where to put lights, drains and how they connect together. The player is also able to add workshops to the prison as well as reform programs that reduce the specific prisoner's recidivism rate. The player tells the prisoners what to do indirectly by setting their schedule.[7] The game takes inspiration from Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper, and Dwarf Fortress.[8] The player can also allow additional conditions to be applied to their game (such as simulated temperature, gang activities) to increase the difficulty of the game and to simulate a prison in conditions nearer to reality. A player's prison is graded by an in-game report according to various factors, such as recidivism rate of prisoners that have left the prison, overall happiness, et cetera.
The first 'official' (non-beta) release introduced an expanded story mode as a tutorial as well as an escape mode which casts the player as a prisoner with the goal of escaping, while causing as much trouble as possible.[9]
Development[edit]
Prison Architect was developed by British video game studio Introversion Software. The game was announced in October 2011, shortly after Introversion postponed the development of their bank heist simulator game Subversion.[10] The game was first made available on September 25, 2012 as an Alpha version.[2] The game was then crowdfunded with pre-orders, making over US$270,000 in two weeks with close to 8,000 sales.[11] Developer's co-founder Mark Morris explains that independent crowd-funding has allowed them to have no time limit on the Alpha version, as well as no fees associated with crowd-funding platforms.[11] As of December 2013, the developers have raised over US$9 million.[12]
Introversion Software announced that a mobile version of the game was in development[13] and the PC version of the game officially launched on October 6, 2015.[14][15] In Introversion's alpha 30 video,[16] they confirmed Prison Architect was coming to iOS and Android in October 2015 with the game's official release. The developers posted a tweet on March 21, 2013, that 'I guess Prison Architect won't be coming to iPad then! Your loss Apple', with a link to a Pocket Gamer article.[17][18] It was later revealed by the developer that the original direct port did not impress Apple. Due to the concern of it might not be featured on App Store's front page the project was set aside for a while.[19] The effort to bring Prison Architect to mobile devices was resumed by Paradox Interactive as the publisher and co-developed with Tag Games. The tablet version for iPad and Android tablets was launched on May 25, 2017. [20] Introversion announced on January 20, 2016 that Double Eleven would be bringing the game to Xbox 360, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 platforms. The console versions were released on June 28, 2016.[21] The Xbox edition of the game was released to subscribers to Xbox Live under the Games With Gold program in September 2018.[22]
As of September 2018, the latest version is Update 16, released on September 4, 2018.[23] Officially introducing multiplayer mode to the game, it allows up to 8 players to cooperatively build and manage a prison. This was later reduced to 4 players in an update to multiplayer in December 2018.
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Reception[edit]
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Upon its full release, the game received positive reviews, scoring 83 out of 100 on review aggregator site Metacritic.[24]IGN awarded it a score of 8.3 out of 10, saying 'Prison Architect is one of the most in-depth, satisfying builder games in ages, if you can get past the initiation.'[26] On April 7, 2016, Prison Architect won the 2016 BAFTA award in the Persistent Game category.[27] Prison Architect was also nominated for the 2016 BAFTA award in the British Game category, which was won by Batman: Arkham Knight.[27]
As of September 26, 2015, Prison Architect had grossed over $19 million in sales, and over 1.25 million units of the game had been sold.[28] By the end of August 2016 when the final version '2.0' of Prison Architect was released, the number of individual players was given as two million.[29]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Geere, Duncan (November 30, 2011). 'Prison Architect lets you build the jailhouse of your dreams'. Wired News. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
- ^ abRossignol, Jim (September 26, 2012). 'Introversion Unveil Prison Architect's Alpha Launch'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
- ^Steinbach, Jonas (January 9, 2014). 'Prison Architect rakes in nearly $11 million'. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
- ^'IGF 2012 Main Competition Entrant: Prison Architect'. The 14th Annual Independent Games Festival. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
- ^'Paradox Interactive acquires Prison Architect from Introversion Games'. VentureBeat. January 8, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
- ^'How to activate Prison Architect 3D'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. March 8, 2016. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^Francis, Tom (July 31, 2012). 'Prison Architect preview'. PC Gamer.
- ^'Official Prison Architect Page'. Introversion Software. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
- ^'Prison Architect at EGX 2015 video'. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- ^Senior, Tom (October 20, 2011). 'Introversion's new game is Prison Architect'. PC Gamer. Future Publishing. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
- ^ abRose, Mike (October 10, 2012). 'Who Needs Kickstarter? Prison Architect devs want total control'. Gamasutra. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
- ^Cook, Dave (December 5, 2013). '$9 million and counting: why Prison Architect underlines a changing tide'. VG24/7. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
- ^Wesley Yin-Poole (January 30, 2015). 'Prison Architect will launch in 2015'. Eurogamer. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
- ^Yin-Poole, Wesley (July 30, 2015). 'Prison Architect set free October 2015'. Eurogamer. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^'Prison Architect Mailing List Archives'. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
- ^'Prison Architect Alpha 30'. YouTube. February 27, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
- ^'Intoreversion Software tweet'.
- ^'Sweatshop HD is the latest victim in Apple's war on serious games'. Pocket Gamer. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^'Prison Architect iPad/Android - OUT NOW'. Introversion Software. May 25, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
- ^'Prison Architect: Mobile Available to Download Free Today'. Paradox Interactive. May 24, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
- ^G. Macy, Seth (January 20, 2016). 'Prison Architect Headed To Consoles'. IGN. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
- ^Kain, Erik. 'Here Are All The Free 'Xbox Games With Gold' Coming In September (2018)'. Forbes. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
- ^'Update 16 released - multiplayer!'. Steam Community. Introversion Software. September 4, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
- ^ ab'Prison Architect for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
- ^Clark, Justin (October 13, 2015). 'Prison Architect Review'. GameSpot. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
- ^ abCobbett, Richard (October 6, 2015). 'Prison Architect Review'. IGN. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ abBAFTA - Games in 2016
- ^Purchese, Robert (September 30, 2015). 'Prison Architect earns $19m from 1.25m sales - but what's next?'. Eurogamer. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ^'Version 2.0 released'. August 26, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
External links[edit]
- Official website
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This wikia is about Prison Architect, a game made by British game developer Introversion Software. Prison Architect is a game made by British game developer Introversion Software. The game is a two dimensional private prison construction and management simulation, where the player is responsible for managing various aspects of the prison including building facilities, planning, hiring. The Prison Architect Wiki. Build and Manage A Maximum Security Prison. Prison Architect is the world's latest Prison Management Sim. Starting with an empty plot of land you must construct a holding cell with basic water and electricity to house your first batch of prisoners, to buy you enough time to create a proper cell block.
| Prison Architect | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Introversion Software (2015−19) Double Eleven (2019−) |
| Publisher(s) | Introversion Software (2015−2019) Paradox Interactive (tablet version) Double Eleven (console version) Paradox Interactive (2019−) |
| Producer(s) | Mark Morris |
| Designer(s) | Chris Delay |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch |
| Release |
|
| Genre(s) | Construction and management simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Prison Architect is a private prisonconstruction and management simulation video game developed by Introversion Software.[1] It was made available as a crowdfunded paid alpha pre-order on September 25, 2012 with updates scheduled every three to four weeks.[2] With over 2,000,000 copies sold, Prison Architect made over US$10.7 million in pre-order sales for the alpha version.[3]Prison Architect was an entrant in the 2012 Independent Games Festival.[4]
The game was available on Steam's Early Access program, and was officially released on October 6, 2015.
On January 8, 2019, it was announced that Paradox Interactive had acquired the rights to Prison Architect for an undisclosed sum.[5]
Gameplay[edit]
The game is a top-down 2D (with a partially 3D mode)[6] construction and management simulation where the player takes control of building and running a prison. The player is responsible for managing various aspects of their prison including building cells and facilities, planning and connecting utilities, hiring and assigning staff, including a warden, guards, workers, and more. The player needs to recruit staff to unlock more aspects of the game. The player is also responsible for the finances of their prison, and for keeping their inmates content. The player's role is of both architect and governor with sandbox micromanagement themes such as choosing where to put lights, drains and how they connect together. The player is also able to add workshops to the prison as well as reform programs that reduce the specific prisoner's recidivism rate. The player tells the prisoners what to do indirectly by setting their schedule.[7] The game takes inspiration from Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper, and Dwarf Fortress.[8] The player can also allow additional conditions to be applied to their game (such as simulated temperature, gang activities) to increase the difficulty of the game and to simulate a prison in conditions nearer to reality. A player's prison is graded by an in-game report according to various factors, such as recidivism rate of prisoners that have left the prison, overall happiness, et cetera.
The first 'official' (non-beta) release introduced an expanded story mode as a tutorial as well as an escape mode which casts the player as a prisoner with the goal of escaping, while causing as much trouble as possible.[9]
Development[edit]
Prison Architect was developed by British video game studio Introversion Software. The game was announced in October 2011, shortly after Introversion postponed the development of their bank heist simulator game Subversion.[10] The game was first made available on September 25, 2012 as an Alpha version.[2] The game was then crowdfunded with pre-orders, making over US$270,000 in two weeks with close to 8,000 sales.[11] Developer's co-founder Mark Morris explains that independent crowd-funding has allowed them to have no time limit on the Alpha version, as well as no fees associated with crowd-funding platforms.[11] As of December 2013, the developers have raised over US$9 million.[12]
Introversion Software announced that a mobile version of the game was in development[13] and the PC version of the game officially launched on October 6, 2015.[14][15] In Introversion's alpha 30 video,[16] they confirmed Prison Architect was coming to iOS and Android in October 2015 with the game's official release. The developers posted a tweet on March 21, 2013, that 'I guess Prison Architect won't be coming to iPad then! Your loss Apple', with a link to a Pocket Gamer article.[17][18] It was later revealed by the developer that the original direct port did not impress Apple. Due to the concern of it might not be featured on App Store's front page the project was set aside for a while.[19] The effort to bring Prison Architect to mobile devices was resumed by Paradox Interactive as the publisher and co-developed with Tag Games. The tablet version for iPad and Android tablets was launched on May 25, 2017. [20] Introversion announced on January 20, 2016 that Double Eleven would be bringing the game to Xbox 360, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 platforms. The console versions were released on June 28, 2016.[21] The Xbox edition of the game was released to subscribers to Xbox Live under the Games With Gold program in September 2018.[22]
As of September 2018, the latest version is Update 16, released on September 4, 2018.[23] Officially introducing multiplayer mode to the game, it allows up to 8 players to cooperatively build and manage a prison. This was later reduced to 4 players in an update to multiplayer in December 2018.
Dragon Ball Origins. Manufacturer Video. Upload your video. Customer Questions & Answers See questions and answers. Customer reviews. 3.7 out of 5 stars. 3.7 out of 5. 30 customer ratings. 5 star 33% 4 star 33% 3 star 7%. Dragon ball origins episode 3-3. Dragon Ball Origins Episode 3-3: Target: Faur Star Ball - A stroll in the desert! Where on earth is the Four Star. Dragon Ball: Origins, originally published as Dragon Ball DS (ドラゴンボール DS ディーエス, Doragon Bōru Dī Esu) in Japan, is a video game for the Nintendo DS based on Dragon Ball.It was developed by Game Republic and published by Atari and Namco Bandai under the Bandai label. It was released on September 18, 2008 in Japan, on November 4, 2008 in America, on December 5, 2008 in.
Halo wars 2 review. Halo Wars 2 manages to deliver a story that's at least as good as those in some of the main Halo titles. Halo Wars 2 tells a decent tale, at least as far as Halo goes, and those fantastic. Halo Wars 2 lies somewhere in between an RTS game for Halo fans and a Halo game for RTS fans. It adapts Halo's FPS roots well, taking the series’ classic missions and reformatting them in ways that make sense for a. Halo Wars 2 Review. This real-time strategy game makes you fight for control. It is said that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Is the de facto king of real-time strategy games on consoles, where the venerable.
Reception[edit]
| Reception | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||
Upon its full release, the game received positive reviews, scoring 83 out of 100 on review aggregator site Metacritic.[24]IGN awarded it a score of 8.3 out of 10, saying 'Prison Architect is one of the most in-depth, satisfying builder games in ages, if you can get past the initiation.'[26] On April 7, 2016, Prison Architect won the 2016 BAFTA award in the Persistent Game category.[27] Prison Architect was also nominated for the 2016 BAFTA award in the British Game category, which was won by Batman: Arkham Knight.[27]
As of September 26, 2015, Prison Architect had grossed over $19 million in sales, and over 1.25 million units of the game had been sold.[28] By the end of August 2016 when the final version '2.0' of Prison Architect was released, the number of individual players was given as two million.[29]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Geere, Duncan (November 30, 2011). 'Prison Architect lets you build the jailhouse of your dreams'. Wired News. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
- ^ abRossignol, Jim (September 26, 2012). 'Introversion Unveil Prison Architect's Alpha Launch'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
- ^Steinbach, Jonas (January 9, 2014). 'Prison Architect rakes in nearly $11 million'. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
- ^'IGF 2012 Main Competition Entrant: Prison Architect'. The 14th Annual Independent Games Festival. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
- ^'Paradox Interactive acquires Prison Architect from Introversion Games'. VentureBeat. January 8, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
- ^'How to activate Prison Architect 3D'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. March 8, 2016. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^Francis, Tom (July 31, 2012). 'Prison Architect preview'. PC Gamer.
- ^'Official Prison Architect Page'. Introversion Software. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
- ^'Prison Architect at EGX 2015 video'. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- ^Senior, Tom (October 20, 2011). 'Introversion's new game is Prison Architect'. PC Gamer. Future Publishing. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
- ^ abRose, Mike (October 10, 2012). 'Who Needs Kickstarter? Prison Architect devs want total control'. Gamasutra. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
- ^Cook, Dave (December 5, 2013). '$9 million and counting: why Prison Architect underlines a changing tide'. VG24/7. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
- ^Wesley Yin-Poole (January 30, 2015). 'Prison Architect will launch in 2015'. Eurogamer. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
- ^Yin-Poole, Wesley (July 30, 2015). 'Prison Architect set free October 2015'. Eurogamer. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^'Prison Architect Mailing List Archives'. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
- ^'Prison Architect Alpha 30'. YouTube. February 27, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
- ^'Intoreversion Software tweet'.
- ^'Sweatshop HD is the latest victim in Apple's war on serious games'. Pocket Gamer. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^'Prison Architect iPad/Android - OUT NOW'. Introversion Software. May 25, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
- ^'Prison Architect: Mobile Available to Download Free Today'. Paradox Interactive. May 24, 2017. Retrieved June 3, 2017.
- ^G. Macy, Seth (January 20, 2016). 'Prison Architect Headed To Consoles'. IGN. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
- ^Kain, Erik. 'Here Are All The Free 'Xbox Games With Gold' Coming In September (2018)'. Forbes. Retrieved September 3, 2018.
- ^'Update 16 released - multiplayer!'. Steam Community. Introversion Software. September 4, 2018. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
- ^ ab'Prison Architect for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
- ^Clark, Justin (October 13, 2015). 'Prison Architect Review'. GameSpot. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
- ^ abCobbett, Richard (October 6, 2015). 'Prison Architect Review'. IGN. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
- ^ abBAFTA - Games in 2016
- ^Purchese, Robert (September 30, 2015). 'Prison Architect earns $19m from 1.25m sales - but what's next?'. Eurogamer. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ^'Version 2.0 released'. August 26, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2018.
External links[edit]
- Official website