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Genre: Simulator, Strategy, Indie

Prison Life

Update 0.7 - New Island Map, 3 Escapes Raft/Ship/Jet Ski, Abandoned City

New


  • New Map - Lost Island! Escaping this map requires escaping the prison and the island.
  • Over 3 ways to escape island + many ways to get out of prison.
  • New Zone in Lost Island - Abandoned City - contains very rare loot.
  • 8 New Items - Gold Bar, Golden Key, Clothing, Rope, Plank, Sail, Raft Floor, Raft
  • Golden doors were added to the old and new map near the entrances - Unlockable by a golden key(It means you can get to the entrance in the old map without the vents).
  • Now prisoners will not be teleported back to cells at night, the whole prison will be a restricted area.
  • Stat for unlocking golden doors
  • 20 Seconds before the end of the day prisoners will get a warning.
  • Guards will get a notification at the start of the night of how many players are in their cells.

Changed



  • Daily Quests - Now the player amount required will be calculated at the start of the game, and not at the time of making progress.
  • Remote camera cost was increased to 6->10 and now each guard can buy 2 of them
  • Package drops of escaped prisoners are much more valuable now. They won't contain code parts now.
  • Removed the full entrance code from trash cans.
  • Increased underground/vents visibility by 1.4x for prisoners.
  • Circuit boards now are much harder to find in visitations.
  • You won't hear a message notification when sending a message.
  • Now you need to craft only 6(instead of 10) items to complete the crafting daily quest.
  • Some item description strings
  • Prisoner X stepped on trap notification is now red(instead of green) for also guards.

Fixed



  • Items were getting stuck in the middle of the screen and disappearing sometimes.
  • Empty names.
  • Colliders on the roof(you won't be stuck)
  • usage % was visible on items that shouldn't have it.
  • If you typed in chat something and it was closed when you reopened it, it just sent the message, now fixed.


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Update 0.6 - Helicopter Escape, Remote Camera, New Area, Flash

New


  • Helicopter Escape - Get to the roof by vents as a prisoner and call a helicopter to land on the roof or one of the yards.
  • Guard Item - Remote Camera, choose where to place it and all the guards will be able to connect to it.
  • Started translation for a few languages, you can change your language in the settings.
  • New Item - Phone - Used to call a helicopter - Works only on the roof - Illegal and contains metal.
  • New Item - Flash, use it to flash the guards for 4 seconds - Illegal and contains metal.
  • New Item - Battery - used to craft a phone and a flash - Illegal and contains metal.
  • New Item - Antenna - used to craft a phone - Illegal.
  • New area - Roof.
  • New part to the vents system that leads to the roof.

Changed



  • The loot generation table was changed a bit to contain the new items, now also circuit boards can be found in offices(very low chance).
  • Bomb was nerfed, now requires also duct tape to make.
  • Private games - no leave penalty and no AFK kick.
  • Improved the AFK kick system.

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Speed Runners Event & Giveaway! Win Exclusive Chickens!

Speed Runners Event


The top 3 results will get an exclusive in-game pet that might never be obtainable again!

Discord link - https://discord.gg/hhcEBnBGw9
I included the rules below but you can also find them and discuss them with other speedruns
It will last a week from now.

Giveaway


5 random players will get an exclusive purple chicken.
You can join it on our discord!

Competition Rules


Must show that you joined a random session after refreshing the list of games.

No hosting games unless you have 10 players as a host.

Start when you see that you are a determined prisoner.

You must not be talking to anyone else.
-Your voice must be heard in the video to determine if you are talking.

Game sound must be on for the video.

Must before and after recording show all applications that are running through Taskbar, this will be checked intensively. If there is an application that we see that is not allowed, your run will be rejected and you may be further exempt from re-entering the competition.
Applications that are not allowed:
-Any application that uncaps framerate
-Any application that reduces delay
-If any other applications are seen that seem to break the rules we may exempt your run upon further review

Applications that are allowed:
-LiveSplit
-OBS
-Map for SpeedRunning
-PrisonLife
-Discord

No low quality, your video must be at least 720p.
-720p and up is completely fine

No trading with other players.

Record your run and then retime before you submit so you get an exact time, from which you are determined prisoner to when you escape down to the millisecond if this is not done your run will be rejected.

Run must be uploaded to YouTube and accessible to all people.
-No second-hand sites, must be YouTube

Update 0.5.1 - Language Tags and Personal Statistics

New


  • Language tags for games in the game browser.
  • Now you can see a personal statistics of things you've done like escapes, searches and more!
  • notification with sound when you get cases from drops/daily quests
  • Blinking animation for pets

Fixed



  • In some rare cases items were stuck in the middle of the screen
  • Outline of player interaction not showing up

Update 0.5 - Cosmetic Update, Daily Quests, Crate Drops

New


  • 35 new cool skins(hats/heads) that can be obtainable by crates for free!
  • Skin Crates(no key required)
  • Daily Quests
  • Crate Drops at the end of games
  • There is sound when getting a new message

Changed



  • You will receive little penalty for leaving due to connection issues with the server
  • AFK kick time was drasticily increased in lobby(2->5 minutes)

Fixed



  • Sometimes players(and their pets) will be visible while escaped
  • In some cases you could take items from loot while in solitary
  • You won't be stuck in plants now


Crate Drops


Note that there are few things that affect the chances of crate drops

  • Communicating with other players via chat will increase the chances of drops.
  • Being toxic/getting kicked/getting reported(not in yet) will result in you getting fewer crates.
  • At the end of the game you'll see all the drops that players in your game got.


Daily Quests


You will be able to complete a random quest a day and get a crate.

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Update 0.4 - Random Underground Maze, Package Drops, Guard Item Shop, Trap

3 Things I focused on



  1. Fix problems with the lobbies - AFK hosts, AFK players, leavers because they didn't get the role they wanted.
  2. Make the guard gameplay more interesting and less focused on camping - now guards can place traps and can do something else instead of staying in one spot.
  3. Prevent escaped players from leaving - They can help now prisoners who are left in the prison by dropping them packages with items.


New


  • Underground Area Rework - now there are randomly generated walls that turn the area into a maze
  • Guards can earn points now that they can spend on buying searches, traps, energy drinks, and coffee in a shop.
  • New Item - Trap - Can be placed on the floor as a guard and when a prisoner steps on it, he will be stuck for a few seconds.
  • Player list window with an option for the host to kick people.
  • Prefer a role while in the lobby and it will be more likely you'll get it.
  • Auto AFK kick - Mainly to prevent afk hosts.
  • Leave penalty of 5 minutes to players who left in active game.(escaped players will not get the penalty for now)
  • Double click/tap items in inventory to use them(Also works while the loot window is open) - useful to quickly use energy drinks.
  • Added item description to some of the items in the tooltip.

Changed



  • Now the day/night tasks will give buy points to spend instead of searches.
  • The items that can dig were heavily buffed.
  • Storage for escaped prisoners will disappear - to prevent the guards from wasting searches on escaped players.
  • Now metal plate costs 2 bolts + 1 matches to craft.
  • The guide was updated.

Fixed



  • Fixed the bug where guards detected players when they stayed in their cell while the players were not in a restricted area.
  • There was a bug if you were a guard in a restricted area and tried to arrest him sometimes if would use a search.
  • 12/11 player rooms.
  • Sometimes after the game already ended some players had (escaped) in their names.
  • Sometimes escaped players would appear back in prison as AFK.
  • There were problems with the crafting of the metal plate.


What next?


I'm planning to add next week crates with cosmetic items to the game. The crates will be dropped at the end of games randomly and will be obtainable by completing missions and buying them.

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Update 0.3.1 - Tips and Bug Fixes

New


  • Tips - tips about the game will be displayed in the lobby and when escaped.
  • Added an option to disable the profanity filter and to change the mouse sensitivity in the soccer task.

Fixed



  • Bugs with the tasks not completing
  • The detection of prisoners underground


Hotfix 0.3.0.1

Hey, there was a big problem with the detection in restricted area so I fixed it.
Also lowered the crafting cost of Wrench to 1 bolt + 1 matches

Update 0.3 - New Escape, Vents, Much More!

I've been working hard for the last few days to bring you new exciting stuff!
Some of the features were voted by the community on our discord.
If you like the game please leave a review!

How I am fighting the camping problem



  • Now that you are able to leave your cell at night, it will encourage the guards to look around for you instead of camping underground.
  • Night tasks for guards
  • New yard - so guards won't just camp the entrance of one yard and will stop all escapes.
  • New escape way

New


  • Vents - you can go into vents from your cell and drop at other locations in the prison(need to unlock the opening first)
  • New Escape - front door escape - collects all 4 parts of the code and then use it to open the main door(only reachable via the vents)
  • Map Changes - New yard, new prison entrance.
  • You are able now to get out of your cell at night but the whole prison will be restricted area at night.
  • Night tasks for guards.
  • Now you can see the amount of prisoners and guards in your game.
  • You can open the full map by pressing M(Changable) or by pressing the minimap.
  • Now you can choose to talk with your role or all players in the game, switch channels by pressing tab.
  • New item - Wrench - used to unlock vents
  • Bad words filter for chat, names, and game names.
  • When the underground/prison entrance door will open both the prisoners and guards will get a notification.
  • When selecting a bomb in your inventory you will have an helper indecator that will tell you that you can only destroy walls with cracks with the bomb.

Changed



  • Now escaped prisoners will be able to talk in chat with their role or all roles, they will have "(Escaped)" added to their name
  • Increased the mobility of guards by adding more out and return arrows for guards:
  • - Now you can go in and out of the yard and also to outside the prison if you are stuck there.
  • The metal detector at the entrace was removed and new one was added at the new yard.
  • 3 -> 10 bomb explosion radius increase, much more useful underground now!

Fixed



  • There was a bug that the game didn't end if some of the prisoners escaped and some left the game
  • Now game names must have at least 4 letters
  • There was a way to escape only with wirecutters due to a bug, now its not possible because I relaced the outter fence with concrete wall.
  • Sometimes you wouldn't be detected in restricted area, fixed the calculations and it seems all good now.
  • Sometimes when sent to solitary you were sent instead to your cell.
  • Hopefully fixed connection issues with unstable networks

Vents


You will be able to go up from your cell, and unlock vent openings via a new item - wrench(craftable).

You will be able to drop at many places in the prison, any place that has this, is connected to the vents system

New Escape Way - Entrance Door


How to escape:



  1. Collect all 4 parts of the code and craft the complete code

  2. Use the full code item and all prisoners will get a message about it and the code to the door
  3. You will need to get there via vents(you'll also need to cut a fence that blocks the access)

  4. Enter the code

  5. Escape :)

Media


I'm just going to put images and gifs of things that I added, if you want more details check the "dev-updates" channel on the discord.



Update 0.2.1 - Quality of Life and Bug Fixes

[NEW] Now games in the server browser are sorted - games in lobby appear first
[NEW] Added arrows to teleport you back if you are stuck as a guard at:
- Underground between the locked door and the escape point.
- 2 Points near the fences to return to the prison.
- Teleport out of cells in case you are stuck there.
[Changed] Backend server stuff with the server browser to allow infinit amount of games open
[Fixed] Mismatch version for some people
[Fixed] You would have the running animation when spawning

Here are some previews: