![]() Then I felt an uncomfortable wave of self-disgust. ![]() So when I saw Prison Architect, a game where the player constructs and runs a prison, my first reaction was to laugh at its ridiculously dark premise. As for how I dodged it and became a game industry writer? I benefited from some skill, a lot of luck, and obvious systematic advantages that ensured my troubled youth phase didn’t land me in deep shit. I wouldn’t classify the town as bad, it’s just the mechanisms of the war on drugs and the prison industrial complex were definitely in full swing around me. Some of those kids would, unfortunately, grow up to follow their relatives into cells (or worse). ![]() I grew up in a pre-tech boom, working-class Bay Area neighborhood, where a kid having relatives that were incarcerated was the norm. ![]() Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. ![]()
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