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Aug 23rd, 2017 at 23:30:20 - Prison Architect (PC) |
I started playing Prison Architect today. I've seen this game pass through Steam sales but never picked it up until now. I thought that from an ethics perspective this would be a cool choice. I was able to confirm that in the first ten minutes of playing the game.
My first task in the game was to build an execution chamber for a man named Edward Romsey, who is on Death Row for committing a double murder. The game immediately goes into the process of telling the story of his crime, catching his wife in bed with another man and murdering them both in cold blood. Pretty dark start, I thought. It's at this point the game gives you your first ethical decision. Provide Romsey with creature comforts such as a window and a bookshelf, or keep him in a dark barren cell until the time of his execution. I thought, the guys going to pay for his crimes with his life, the least I can do is show a modicum of humanity until then. I provided him with the window and bookshelf.
After testing and making sure the electric chair was in working order, your task is to carry out Edward Romsey's execution. When the switch was flipped, an interesting thing happened. The screen faded to white rather than black and there was angelic music playing in the background, almost as if to signal the man found salvation. Sort of an interesting choice made by the developers.
This was the end of my first 30 minutes of playing the game. My first impression of the game is that it's definitely going to involve a lot of ethical decision making on my part, which should be pretty interesting. Do I provide comforts and keep the prisoners happy, or do I turn the prison into a gulag with constant lockdowns and regular shakedowns of cells? One interesting point is that the ficitional prison system in the game is a for-profit prison system. Every decision I make impacts the bottom line. Do I save a few bucks at the risk of making the lives of these prisoners miserable? Will that cost me more in the long run with riots and escapes? Time will tell I guess.
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