The Dope Game Windows, Mac, Linux

The Dope Game, the newest game from CoaguCo Industries, It is a take on John E. Dell's 1984 classic game Drugwars, where the player goes around New York City trying to make as much money as possible selling drugs while evading the police. But this isn't New York City. Or 1984. The Dope Game takes place in the fictional city of Starkham, Blannington, most infamously known from our previous games One Way To Die and Raise Your Own Clone.

To escape the city of Starkham and start your new life, you get your friend Preston to set up a meeting with the local loanshark, Sweaty Mike. After foolishly borrowing $2,000 to start your fledging drug dealing career, you embark on a timed mission to sell as many drugs as possible throughout the city. However, you must evade the police, make sure not to piss off the locals too much, and navigate an ever-changing drug market.

Visit locations like Crockfort, Pinky's Gun Emporium, Murphy's Lake, The Noose & Rafter Bar, Hillside, Saint Jaysus Memorial Hospital, and more to interact with people and buy or sell a variety of drugs. Almost everyone you meet can be fought or bartered with in some manner.

The game features original music by Macabre Gandhi and fully hand-drawn art assets by GP Garcia. For those of you unfamiliar with the premise, here is a fancy list of game features:

• 15 locations around Starkham
• 16 different drugs to buy and sell
• 11 (barely) different weapons
• 8 different game lengths to play
• Listen to the old lady say lots of things on the bus (unlocks stuff sometimes)
• Borrow money from the loanshark (and maybe pay it back)
• Interact with (and fight) a variety of townspeople
• Hire crew members to fight with you
• Random generated crew members: names, weapons, health, damage all random
• 20 Achievements (so far)
• A variety of random mechnics to make each game unique(ish)
• Back up statistics on CoaguCo's server (requires account)

Owners of One Way To Die and/or Raise Your Own Clone will have access to two additional locations, The Finningan Brothers Fun Park and Dr. Stansfield's Cloning Lab, respectively.

Beside community features like leaderboards we are adding in ways to find dropped or lost drugs and money of other players. Which, of course, means you can and will be losing some of yours.

As menioned earlier, owners of Raise Your Own Clone will have access to the Cloning Lab which acts as a stash for drugs that will span across saves. However, Stansfield's nephew may accidentally give some of your drugs to other players and/or even do some of them himself.

We are considering adding player vs player fights into the game, which is sometimes seen in other variations of the original DrugWars. This should also function similarly where the attacking player is controlled by the game's AI.

We are planning for full controller support sometime after launch and tossing around some other ideas to add on as patches. In the meantime, check out the beta which will turn into the demo. And stay tuned for updates and more information.

In the meantime, here are some other links:

The Dope Game Website - Dope.coaguco.com

Macabre Gandhi Soundcloud - Soundcloud.com

CoaguCo Demo/Beta BitBucket - Bitbucket.org