Prisoner tooltip: Richard Osborne, suppressed, awaiting escort

About this game

Developer: Introversion Software · Publisher: Paradox Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Minimalist & vector · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

Hovering one prisoner collapses the whole simulation into a six-line card. Name and age first (Richard Osborne, 23), then the game's honesty about its own limits - '(??? Psychology ???)', because nobody has researched him yet - then his state as a formal register: '=[Status Effects]=', a row of plus signs, 'Suppressed'. The last line is the one that makes the card an interface rather than a biography: 'Todo: Escort Prisoner to Cell' - the prisoner is shown as a job in somebody else's queue, which is exactly what he is in this game's model of a prison. Around the card the institution carries on being legible at a glance: the KITCHEN wears its name across its own floor, the yard's weight benches stand in rows, and the Emergencies mini-panel at bottom left quietly reports the day's cost (FireEngine 0/2, RiotPolice 1/3, Paramedics 0/2). Honest context: this frame is the aftermath of a riot - Dead and Unconscious status labels and some blood are visible around the solitary row at the bottom; those labels are the same status UI the card belongs to. Frame at about 0:59 in the Prison Architect V1.0 trailer (Steam), a scene-change survivor (v0_0044). Screen type follows the Dwarf Fortress unit-detail precedent (a person card filed under character-unit; the manifest has no tooltip bucket).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

detail-popup status-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Toolbar List Resource bar Clock Tooltip

Screen inventory

• the Prisoner tooltip card at bottom right: 'Prisoner / Richard Osborne, 23 / (??? Psychology ???) / =[Status Effects]= / ++++++++ Suppressed / Todo: Escort Prisoner to Cell'
• the KITCHEN room behind it, its name stencilled across the floor tiles, cooks at the counters and ingredient crates along the back wall
• the yard in the middle band: weight benches in rows on grass, prisoners and staff as named figures (Pennock, Holloway, Davies)
• bottom-left Emergencies mini-panel above the toolbar: FireEngine 0/2, RiotPolice 1/3, Paramedics 0/2; a RiotPolice squad card pinned at the right edge
• magnifier search icons over the cells at left (a shakedown's aftermath), green information icons on the jail doors
• top bar: Todo list 2/13, DAY 26, $93,212 funds, $12,260 daily balance, 2/57 staff, 195/207 prisoners; analogue clock reading FreeTime

Top 3 colors

#3c2d28 23%#abb28f 21%#978c7a 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Introversion Software / Paradox Interactive, Prison Architect screenshot: Prison Architect V1.0 trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Paradox Interactive.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: scene-change frame v0_0044 (Prison Architect V1.0 trailer @58.8s) inspected at full resolution (1920x1080 native); genuine in-game prisoner tooltip confirmed settled and legible (name, age, Psychology line, Status Effects register and Todo line all readable, as are the Emergencies counts); FLAGGED: the frame is post-riot aftermath - DEAD / Unconscious status labels and blood are visible near the solitary row; those are the game's own status UI, not an overlay; no trailer text or watermark overlays the frame

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