The Kingdom of Sin an upcoming Turn-based strategy game from legendary game designer Brenda Romero. Set in the 1920s, the XCOM-style game brings together the various structures of real-life executives and the myth of anti-crime in Chicago. Perhaps the most unique character in the game is a 70-year-old criminal boss named Elvira Duarte. The sketch is that it is based on the real Mexican criminal authorities who just happens to be the grandmother of Brenda Romero's husband.
You can see more details – including historical photos and documents – in the new video posted above and released Friday on YouTube.
Yes, Brenda Romero's husband, John Romero. A famous designer himself, he is best known as a designer The judgment. But he would not be where he is today without the hard work and persistence of his family matriarchs. One of them was his great-great-grandmother Elvira, whom John Romero said removed himself from poverty by running three successful brokers in Nogales, Mexico, for decades.
Born in the late 1800s, Elvira was not a sex worker, according to John Romero. But he managed to make himself mad, and ended up running a legal business that had prostitution efforts. He says that all – including Club Waikiki and B-21 – were active in the 1920s, making him a living figure and other video game figures. Aluminum script it is used to pay for available resources, and is actively sold by collectors.
Photo: Romero / Paradox Interactive Games
"We've done some digging," Brenda Romero told Polygon during the phone call, "and when I found out more about Elvira, I was like, & # 39; Jesus, she is bad. She should be in the game. & # 39; (…) He was far more attractive than I think John and I could be. ”
As the family story progressed, Elvira emerged from the brothels by winning the Mexican lottery in the 1950s. That rise, as well as the profits sold to him by three vendors such as home nightclubs and vacation hotels, he was able to help achieve financial prosperity for his generation. John Romero says he even paid for a public toilet back in Nogales on the street where he lived.
Elvira's strength of the game in this game, called Devil & # 39; s Breath, is based on a modern drug called scopolamine. Romeros said their research shows that scopolamine has been used – unintentionally, at least – by Colombian prostitutes to rob their customers.
"What they did was to make the victims more open to suggestions and more mentally inclined," John Romero said when contacting Zoom. “You just asked them to hand over their money and their valuables, and they will do it with joy, because they are under the Devil's Devil tree. So we thought that would be a good way to implement this idea, because it is a drug that is also associated with prostitutes. ”
The Kingdom of Sin has just been delayed in the fall of 2020. The game will be released on Mac, Nintendo switchch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One.
