'Right from the very start, we knew we had to let the player know that this was a different experience, he has to think differently about it.' 'It would be very easy to think of it as building a hotel or something,' he said. By the time you execute the prisoner, the act seems like just another item on your ever-growing 'to do' list: build more cells, expand the mess hall, establish a common room where you can start a drug rehabilitation program, fix the pipes for the showers, and oh yeah, execute this prisoner.Ĭhris Delay, creative director at developer Introversion Software, told me that it deliberately picked the darkest part of prison life for the first chapter of the game.