When you think about a prison ship floating in space, you might well think of Mass Effect or Disney's The Mandalorian. However, while Small Impact Games has certainly done its research for its upcoming content drop, its Penal Colony map actually took its inspiration from somewhere quite different indeed.
The Penal Colony, which will drop in early access along with the Navy Outpost, is technically a love letter to Aliens 3, Half Life 2, and Dust Tactics - an old board game which game designers Cameron Small and James Rowbotham say helped establish the Dieselpunk genre.
"The prison was definitely influenced by Aliens 3 and there's a Half Life 2 Nova Prospekt feel to it too," Small tells The Loadout. "But this is more of a love letter to a board game called Dust Tactics, which basically helped establish the Dieselpunk genre for a lot of people. The game had these amazing walkers - they basically took a Sherman or a Panzer tank and stuck legs on them and it just looked so badass."
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