DevLog #1 “Searching Planes”

Airport Contraband

Engage in a hands-on approach to airport security. Ever wondered what it would be like to be responsible for all the security operations and preventing contraband on an airport? How about dealing with shady characters or upholding the law? Now you can!

[previewyoutube=V07Rn8ZLpa8;full][/previewyoutube] Searching airplanes, especially large passenger airplanes, is a part of the game that generated a lot of interest lately. To answer one of the most common questions: yes, you will actually enter a plane and search it. We prepared the above footage to give you an idea what it looks like. While it’s not final graphics and the UI is still missing many elements, it showcases the idea itself quite nicely. This part of the game won’t however be available right from the start. It is tight into the career system of the game so you will have to perform other tasks first and do a good job at those. You will also have to start with smaller airplanes first, but make no mistake: searching a private jet of a rich eccentric is quite exciting, too. Your career progression also determines who will accompany you when it comes to searching planes. At this level you won’t get any people who are not qualified to do it, but the quality of who you will work with still varies. Given that there is a set time frame in which the task has to be accomplished, the better the people you get assigned to help you (or you them) plays a role in your chance to succeed reaching a higher score. When it comes to searching planes there are good reasons we let you start with smaller planes first. A plane by definition is a complex machine and as such offers incredibly creative ways to hide contraband. We want you to familiarize yourself with planes in general to actually stand a chance finding illegal goods on a big airliner. The passenger cabin is only part of the plane, its cargo bay and the areas with mechanics, hydraulics all other systems are the really tricky parts. That is also the reason why we decided to simplify the search mechanics itself in order to have you focus more on some creative thinking. We want your wits to be more important than the game’s mechanics itself as we believe that makes for a more rewarding experience.