No Pineapple Left Behind is a top-down school management game where you, as the principle of the school, would have to dehumanize children that don't give produce profits, into pineapples that do produce profits.
Boston area game dev studios Popcannibal, Ape Law, Owlchemy Labs, Dejobaan Games, Firehose Games, Snowrunner Productions, Kyle Seeley, Chris Chung, Terrible Posture Games, Subaltern Games, Retro Affect, and Harmoinix have teamed up to create an amazing bundle of games
No Pineapple Left Behind is a bizarre satirical title that's designed to emulate how modern school systems are run. It is of course immensely exaggerated and uses the odd reference to popular culture to describe things, but its closest likeness is that of Prison Architect.
Kailan May from BagoGames writes: Man, aren’t children… Aren’t they inefficient? They have feelings, they have dreams, and they have desires. This, in a setting as unforgiving, cruel, and mental-illness-inducing as the education system, will not do. What if something could be done with them to make sure they are efficient beings? Not robotise them, no, that would be too cold. Maybe something light hearted, something… Fruity?
…What if we could turn all children into pineapples?
I think this is cool, has a very interesting message that demonstrates almost exactly how I feel about current school systems.
I'm not sure the game will be fun though. I guess we'll see.