UK-based studio Introversion showed late last year that not everyone needs to utilize a service like Kickstarter to crowdfund a video game project. Now, just over four months after launching its Prison Architect crowdfunder, the studio has raised $1 million in pledges.
The worlds first prison parody game? I wonder who amongst the team actually thought of the idea. He sounds like a deciple of Molyneux. I'm always happy to see yet another indie title that is showing the rest of the industry what originality really means. Congrats Introversion on this deviously devilish title. :)
trailer: http://youtu.be/KDDzSOS0vzc
edit. rewatching the trailer i see it does in fact mention Dungeon Keeper as one of several inspirational games. Very nice of you guys to give props.
p.s. the title itself is pretty great too. "Prison Architect" kinda sounds like an obvious one to pick but I think it's deceptively clever. We often associate architects with grand and magnificent buildings but to be a PRISON architect just makes it pure comedy. You can almost envisage the poor architectural graduate who finished at the bottom of his class and is now relegated to designing buildings that are anti-artworks of pure function.
trailer: http://youtu.be/KDDzSOS0vzc
edit. rewatching the trailer i see it does in fact mention Dungeon Keeper as one of several inspirational games. Very nice of you guys to give props.
p.s. the title itself is pretty great too. "Prison Architect" kinda sounds like an obvious one to pick but I think it's deceptively clever. We often associate architects with grand and magnificent buildings but to be a PRISON architect just makes it pure comedy. You can almost envisage the poor architectural graduate who finished at the bottom of his class and is now relegated to designing buildings that are anti-artworks of pure function.