#PRISON ARCHITECT MODDING MOD#

#PRISON ARCHITECT MODDING MOD#

At that point, I thought: вЂњWell, a concentration camp would take matters too far, since its only purpose is killing people.вЂќ But the game already had some prison labor system built in back then, so I thought: вЂњWhy not make a mod that focuses on this aspect of a prison?вЂќ After all, there have been many labor camps in many countries throughout the recent history, and so I arrived at the infamous gulag system of the USSR.

There was some discussion about what themes would be appropriate, like having a concentration camp mod and stuff like that. Waypoint: Was there a specific moment this idea came into your head?ДЄpolloLV: Actually, the first time I thought about it was when I was reading through the Prison Architect forums. To learn why someone would spend years on such a mod, I spoke with ApolloLV, a computer science student in Germany, who recently finished their bachelorвЂ™s degree. Turning the place into a gulag takes it one step further. Prison Architect is a goofy looking game, and its cartoonish art directly contributes to an abstraction of player actions-it becomes easy to focus on the numbers, instead of people. The update before added Russian language protest signs. The most recent update, from last November, changed the assault rifles carried by guards to look more like period-appropriate AK-47s. Slowly, ApolloLV-who doesn't even play many games, let alone create mods-has tweaked various aspects. Modder ApolloLV published the first version of their mod in 2014, when the game was still in alpha.

Prison architect modding