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Game News Prisonscape - a gritty, uncompromising prison-based RPG / Adventure KickStarter

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Tags: Lunar Enigma; Prisonscape

Have you ever wanted to know what life is like in prison? Perhaps steal and shank your way to the top of the prison hierarchy while levelling up mad skills? Well wonder no more with the latest KickStarter, Prisonscape:

Prisonscape is an adventure/RPG game about the harsh and brutal life in prison, made for PC, Mac, and Linux. The focus in the game is on making the best of what you have. Gathering parts and crafting makeshift weapons, interacting with other prisoners (bartering, forming alliances, or making enemies) and learning the trade inside the prison.



You can develop your character to be a tough fighter, charismatic manipulator, intelligent craftsman, or a slimy snake, and the choices you make affect the story.

Craft makeshift weapons and other useful items out of the objects lying around the prison.

Explore the prison and interact with over 80 NPCs each with their unique dialogue, background and personality.

Grid-based, tactical combat: Control the main character and his henchmen in turn-based, tactical combat.

Gain reputation and join a prison gang: Gain (or lose) reputation by doing jobs for other inmates and/or guards and join a gang and help take out their rivals.

Special Abilities: Use unique attacks and defenses from the Book of Dirty Tricks, which are based on your character's stats and skills or resort to drugs for various bonuses and disadvantages.

Solve Problems: Find your way through obstacles with your intelligence, agility or strength. Jobs can also be solved in different ways.

Train: Study and train inside the prison to become proficient in many different skills, including fighting, literacy and pick-pocketing.

Be a Snitch: Snitch to the guards about other inmates to receive favors such as better jobs, cigarettes or more rec time (but don't get caught!).

Painful Defeat, Rewarding Victories: Lose all your precious contraband in cell shakedowns and steal valuable items from other inmates.​


It looks kinda neat. They have 29 days to raise $49,500.
 
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He says it's "inspired by the Wire". I lost any interest here. It means it's an "edgy", suburban, silver spoon-fed, hipster from a humanities department who "knows the gritty reality of prison". It's too overwhelmingly pretentious for me to possibly bear.
 

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yeah too bad about the supernatural element at the end. I hope they will have an update showing some systems in action. looks like it's all just animation at this point.

prison RPG is the one RPG I really want to see made tho. probably backing after pay day.
 

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Nice, me like. Time to spread around that link among my hipster friends, they usually support anything which looks even remotely 8-bit.
 

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This is a tricky theme for a game. There's a big chance it will either turn out uninteresting (if the approach is too mild) or too disturbing (if the approach is not too mild). Judging from the graphics, it's probably the former.

Finding that golden balance will be tricky, and would require some serious writing skills. I'm not convinced such skills are involved here.
 
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Is it just me or does Planescape stand for "Landscape of Planes"?

Prisonscape just sound like "Escape from Prison"...
 

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yeah too bad about the supernatural element at the end. I hope they will have an update showing some systems in action. looks like it's all just animation at this point.

It's mostly just drugs.

prison RPG is the one RPG I really want to see made tho. probably backing after pay day.

We'll start releasing some actual gameplay footage and feature introduction videos in the next few days.
 

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He says it's "inspired by the Wire". I lost any interest here. It means it's an "edgy", suburban, silver spoon-fed, hipster from a humanities department who "knows the gritty reality of prison". It's too overwhelmingly pretentious for me to possibly bear.

Is the Wire even set inside prison? I thought it was about the projects.

No, that's Oz.

I've been looking for a game inspired by Oz for a long fucking time. So good luck, guys.
 

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He says it's "inspired by the Wire". I lost any interest here. It means it's an "edgy", suburban, silver spoon-fed, hipster from a humanities department who "knows the gritty reality of prison". It's too overwhelmingly pretentious for me to possibly bear.
this is exactly what an overwhelmingly pretentious hipster would say
 

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