Hold on…Who said selling drugs is dangerous? Most if not all of us apparently.
Selling drugs shouldn’t be much of a hassle now with this new game- Weedcraft Inc.
Weedcraft Inc is the first original video game by Devolver Digital. Weedcraft Inc is a tycoon or world-building game, similar to Civilization or Tropico, but players start out as low-grade weed dealers and build their empires from there. It’s in beta now, and the full game is due to drop some time in April.
They have likened the game to the hit HBO and Vimeo series, High Maintenance. The show has many scenes in which people are trying to get, experiment and enjoy weed in New York city.
Speaking to the reporters, Alexander, the lead writer said “That show, I think, captured the reality of what marijuana is to people in a way that most other entertainments that center around marijuana don’t,”. “It basically says, ‘It cuts across every social strata, it cuts across every age group.’ That’s the place you want to come from this from.”
“There’s different flavors,” Alexander said. “The first one’s flavored more toward the medical side. The research side, taking care of patients. The second scenario’s a little more tilted toward the legal and political landscape. We’re trying to illustrate, pull out these really interesting scenarios.”
A player can also chose to be a legal or illegal, decent or shady and these decisions align wth the existing system in the world generating a lot of varied scenarios. “So you can be an illegal grower who treats his people really well and does a lot of pro bono research into medical applications of marijuana, and be illegal decent,” Alexander explained. “That would be like the compassionate-care growers of the 80s who were giving away weed to AIDS patients and getting arrested for it and all that stuff. Then at the other end of the spectrum you’ve got John Boehner, legal shady. Super shady but super legal, and that’s your Wall Street guys.”
What are your thoughts on this?