Prison Boss VR News

Hey Prison Bosses!

Been a long time. We are proud to announce today our biggest update to Prison Boss VR, the Boss mode update, out now! This update took more time than expected to get out as we ported the game to PlayStation VR at the same time, which will also be out today in Americas and tomorrow in Europe.

We’ve been working hard to offer you this new update, adding a brand new way to play the game!

If you read the forums, when we’re active (yes it happens sometimes… :) ), we’ve been talking about a sandbox mode. After months of designing, implementing and testing this new mode, we decided to give it a more unique name, thus the Boss mode.


Boss mode lets you decide your own strategy by giving you skill cards which you can use to unlock the items you desire. The goal is to make the highest score you can before the end of the serving time you go for. You can play for 20, 30 or 40 days in any of the 4 prisons. You can then continue your game if you wish but the score will be calculated at the end of the duration you chose.




This is one big new feature, especially for people who had not enough room to use room scale: You can now play seated with the new “distance interactions”. You can now “distance grab”, “distance drop” and rotate 90 degrees with a dedicated input.




To make the Story mode more replayable, we added a medals system which lets you replay the prisons to perfect your score. The score is based on the total value of items sold, the number of jobs completed and the number of times you got caught by the guards during the playthrough. You then get a final medal related to your score! Go get those gold medals!




Along with this, we fixed lots of performance and gameplay issues. We did lots of optimization, drastically reducing loading times and greatly improving overall framerate. You can read the full patch notes below.


Some new achievements have been added to offer some challenges related to the new mode and the medal system!

We hope you’ll like the new mode and the new comfort options for the people who had trouble with the standing experience before. It is available now for free! Ready. Set. Craft!

• Features:
  
  
  
  • Brand new Boss mode
    
    
    
    • Boss mode allows you to play the prison of your choice with the starter item of your choice, and later on unlock objects you want to craft
      
    • Boss mode becomes available after completing prison 2
      
    
    
  • Scores and medals based on gameplay performance for each prison completed
    
  • Full UI rework:
    
    
    
    • Complete rework of the merchant for better user experience
      
    • All UI can be used from distance via a hand controlled pointer
      
    • More useful data on the progression tab (required XP to unlock new supplies, days passed, times caught and Items Sold value)
      
    • You can now get back the items you sold to the merchant if you cancel the trade instead of getting money
      
    
    
  • New comfort options (available in Options menu):
    
    
    
    • Roomscale: same as before
      
    • Standing: self rotation button
      
    • Sitting: distance interactions and self rotation button
      
    
    
  • New languages supported (Russian, Spanish and soon Traditional Chinese)
    
  • 14 new achievements spread across the entire game
    
  • Can stream a filmed version of yourself playing Prison Boss VR with LIV (for Vive on Steam)
    
  
  
  
• Improvements :
  
  
  
  • Moderate performance increase
    
  • Loading and scene transition significantly faster
    
  • All prisons and a few objects have been prettied up a little bit
    
  
  
  
• Bug fixes:
  
  
  
  • Doesn’t play long intro when playing tutorials through the main menu anymore
    
  • Bobby can be sold only once per day
    
  • Tutorials screen now allows leaving back to Main Menu and will return thrown objects
    
  • Made very hard achievements more realistically obtainable
    
  • Improved issues caused by defective prisoner pathing
    
  • Fixed issues that could make announcers and merchants to not come
    
  
  

Hey everyone!

To thank our backers and show our commitment to our new project, Jousting Time, we're excited to announce that we are giving away Prison Boss VR for free to everyone pledging over 20 CA$ (Early Champion and up) ! All existing Early Champion backers and up will also get a copy. Steam keys will be sent by email at the end of the campaign if the funding goal is reached.



Check out Jousting Time on Kickstarter to learn more about the project!

Jousting Time was featured at PAX East 2018 in Boston and won Marooner’s Rock Team Choice Award. We were thrilled with the reception from everyone who got to try it !



If you want to see more about the game, PSVRFrank and RealityCheckVR got to try the game at PAX East and made a video about their experience. That was great to meet them !

Make sure to follow Jousting Time on your favorite social media :
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Hey Prison Bosses!

We hope you are having a great time managing the supply of cake and teddy bears within the prison walls. We are taking this time to update you all about the developments at TREBUCHET and the future plans for Prison Boss.





First of all, we are very proud to announce today TREBUCHET’s second VR game in the works: Jousting Time! We launched a Kickstarter campaign just now about this new exciting project that we have been working on since the end of 2017. Jousting Time was first created during a game jam in November and we decided to push this concept further with a unique way for VR players and non-VR players to interact. Have a look at the game on the Kickstarter page right here!

To celebrate this announcement, we give Prison Boss VR its largest sale discount on Steam ever! 40% off Prison Boss is on until next week!



The game recently won the “Mixed Reality” award from Microsoft’s Dream.Build.Play contest in March. Yaaaayyy! We were finalist with two other great VR games, Windlands and Racket: NX, so we were very proud of this unexpected recognition.

Since the launch, we did a lot of work on Prison Boss. The game was well polished with the Fall patches that enhanced the progression and added some furniture. We also worked on adding Windows MR and Oculus Rift Support and integrated language features allowing us to translate the game in French and Simplified Chinese.

For the future of the game, we are looking into making a Playstation VR port. This port would allow us to add a simplified locomotion system to the Steam version of the game. We want players to be able to make the game work on Standing Mode instead of Roomscale only.

We are also working on doing a Prison Boss VR content patch for this summer. (Hopefully for the one year anniversary date of the game on August 29th.) We do not want to say much about this since nothing is final, but we want to increase the replayability of the game by adding a new game mode and online high score systems.

So yeah, this is about it! Do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions or comments!

As a side note - Languages -

We are wondering which languages would be interesting and valuable for our player base? If you guys are really hoping for your native language to be added to the game, manifest your interest! If we have volunteers to translate the texts from the game we can do more language integrations that the ones we currently have!

Thanks everyone for playing Prison Boss VR and have a great day !

Hey Prison Bosses!

We hope you are having a great time managing the supply of cake and teddy bears within the prison walls. We are taking this time to update you all about the developments at TREBUCHET and the future plans for Prison Boss.





First of all, we are very proud to announce today TREBUCHET’s second VR game in the works: Jousting Time! We launched a Kickstarter campaign just now about this new exciting project that we have been working on since the end of 2017. Jousting Time was first created during a game jam in November and we decided to push this concept further with a unique way for VR players and non-VR players to interact. Have a look at the game on the Kickstarter page right here!

To celebrate this announcement, we give Prison Boss VR its largest sale discount on Steam ever! 40% off Prison Boss is on until next week!



The game recently won the “Mixed Reality” award from Microsoft’s Dream.Build.Play contest in March. Yaaaayyy! We were finalist with two other great VR games, Windlands and Racket: NX, so we were very proud of this unexpected recognition.

Since the launch, we did a lot of work on Prison Boss. The game was well polished with the Fall patches that enhanced the progression and added some furniture. We also worked on adding Windows MR and Oculus Rift Support and integrated language features allowing us to translate the game in French and Simplified Chinese.

For the future of the game, we are looking into making a Playstation VR port. This port would allow us to add a simplified locomotion system to the Steam version of the game. We want players to be able to make the game work on Standing Mode instead of Roomscale only.

We are also working on doing a Prison Boss VR content patch for this summer. (Hopefully for the one year anniversary date of the game on August 29th.) We do not want to say much about this since nothing is final, but we want to increase the replayability of the game by adding a new game mode and online high score systems.

So yeah, this is about it! Do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions or comments!

As a side note - Languages -

We are wondering which languages would be interesting and valuable for our player base? If you guys are really hoping for your native language to be added to the game, manifest your interest! If we have volunteers to translate the texts from the game we can do more language integrations that the ones we currently have!

Thanks everyone for playing Prison Boss VR and have a great day !

Hi everyone !

Prison Boss VR is now available in French and Simplified Chinese ! Head to the properties of the game in the library to switch your current language.



All game texts have been translated so we hope you enjoy it !

For the occasion, the game is 20% off until January 31st !

Now that we setup a localization framework, we will look into translating the game to more languages if we find there is some interest.

Happy Crafting !