| Arstotzka Passport from Paper’s Please | |
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| Congratulations. The October Labor Lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. | |
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Origin |
Lucas Pope |
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Type |
Passport |
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Effects |
The picture changes to match user, allowing user access into any country. |
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Downsides |
User becomes extremely racist. |
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Activation |
Using |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 Agents |
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Section |
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Aisle |
8152-0511 |
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Shelf |
311-9515-1499 |
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Date of Collection |
05/2014 |
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Origin[]
Papers, Please is a indie video game developed by former Naughty Dog developer Lucas Pope. The game focuses on the emotional toll of working as an immigration officer, deciding whom to let in a whom to exclude from entering the fictional dystopian country of Arstotzka.The player needs to inspect new arrivals documents and uses an array of tools to determine whether the papers in order to keep out certain undesirable individuals. These individuals include terrorists, wanted criminals or smugglers out of the country. At the end of the work day the player must hope that they made enough money to support their low-class housing budget for themselves and their family. If too much is made the government takes it away, too little and you are arrested for not making enough money and 'stealing' housing.
There was a little bit of controversy having to due with the full body scan that could be used to scan for smugglers as Apple thought that it was to be pornographic in nature. Later Apple issued a statement saying that there was a 'misunderstanding' and released the game for their devices. For a promotion Pope created a few passports to be used at conventions to show off the game, his hope that a simple idea would become as popular as it did was transferred into one of these passports that an agent was able to easily slip away with.
Effects[]
The picture changes to match user, allowing user access into any country, however the user becomes extremely racist.