Introversion Announces Prison Architect

As we reported yesterday, Introversion unexpectedly put its development of Subversion on hold, presenting instead a new game to this year's Independent Games Festival. We now know what that game is.

Titled "Prison Architect", the new game, true to its name, puts you in charge of building and managing a SuperMax prison. Scant details are available about the game, save for its description and sole screenshot, which you can see above.

Introversion's Chris Delay described his inception of the game in a positive light. "And that was when the next game idea arrived. This new idea was fully formed, just like DEFCON, just like Uplink," he wrote.

"I could see most of the core game design straight away. I could see how much of the tech that we’d designed for Subversion was directly applicable, if properly turned on its head. And within an hour or two, I’d made up my mind. I went old-school and bought a blank notebook, the first time I’ve used one since Uplink, and spent most of the ten hour flight home writing it all down. Those first 10 pages written on that flight are the design bible that we still stick to today."

Details on Prison Architect are forthcoming.