I’m grateful that he is willing to dive back into his dark past for us, all for the sake of discussing a video game. We agree to meet in a secret location, where I have brought a laptop running Prison Architect. What I do want to see, however, is how someone who had actually spent a considerable chunk of time in prison would react to the game.
Whether that reaction is Prison Architect’s intent, I’m not sure. 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, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022.
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