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PRISONS OF FAME - Week One Nominees and Winners!



WARDENS,

Of the 4,700 prisons created using The Escapists Prison Editor in the past week, 12 made it onto the Prisons of Fame Week 1 shortlist, as chosen by you.

There can only be one winner of the highly sought after Escapists Hoodie though, and I've been testing, probing and escaping from each shortlisted prison to determine who came out on top - and who spent the rest of their sentence in the SHU.

The nominees are:



I narrowed these 12 nominees (which are all in this collection if you'd like to play them all!) down to 3 finalists, who are:

USS Lockwing by Axonium


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=418798876

The USS Lockwing is a prison ship. IN SPACE. If that mere combination isn't enough, Warden Axonium even recreated stars and planets through clever use of light sources and scenery.



Aside from great design, the prison functions really well too. Relatively small, you really get the sense that you are trapped in space - doomed to serve your sentence or face oxygen starvation and an eventual collision with overwhelming gravity.


Jailed School by Kulkinz


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=419822717

They teach you at Warden School never to work with children or animals. Kulkinz foolishly disobeys this directive with his prison influenced by a school.

The design here is fantastic with great attention paid to the theme. The canteen has school style tables, there's an IT Lab and even a large library.



Give it a play!

Fort Kuwabara by Grizzly


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=419510299

Kuwabara, KUWABARA!

I like this prison. Alot. Mostly because of the surrounding electric fence and Grizzly's obvious love of guard towers, but also because I imagine prisoners walking around screaming KUWABARA KUWABARA (which is a Japanese phrase used to ward off lightening) before their escape attempts.



It's a really solid prison with 1 well hidden weakness. Play it, see if you can find it, wear rubber shoes.


AND THE WINNER....
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=418798876

CONGRATULATIONS AXONIUM! Your prison will be featured in the shiny and new PRISONS OF FAME Winners Collection and I'll be in touch soon to arrange delviery of your hoodie. Good work Warden.

Nominations for Week 2 of PRISON OF FAME are open now, just head to this thread and post a link to the prison you'd like to nominate to ensure that it gets considered next week. You have until Friday to nominate and remember - you cannot nominate your own work.

Get back to it Wardens,

MT17

PRISONS OF FAME!



PRISONERS,

As part of our ongoing inititative to improve the design and quality of detention centers across the globe through crowdsourcing, we'd like to incentivise the creation of very high quality prisons. To do this, I'm introducing the "Prisons of Fame" competition.

Each week, myself and Chris will choose a single prison made by a member of The Escapists community to receive the coveted Prison of Fame title. The author of each week's Prison of Fame will win a The Escapists hoodie.

To enter, simply create and upload a prison to the Steam Workshop! Any prison can win at any time, so there's no need to re-upload each week.

You can nominate prisons that you have played and loved here, however you ARE NOT PERMITTED TO NOMINATE PRISONS THAT YOU HAVE CREATED.

Nominations will be considered by myself and Warden Chris D.

You can find every PRISON OF FAME winner in the PRISON OF FAME collection over on the Workshop.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=421188495

So - get playing and get nominating!

MT17

The Escapists: Alcatraz - Out NOW!

PRISONERS,

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You think you're soooooo hot now, huh? Setting record escape times, beating every challenge that we throw at you - even having the cheek to build your own prisons! It's time to knock you down a peg or two.

The Escapists: Alcatraz is the first DLC for The Escapists on PC. Modelled after the world's most notorious prison, you'll face the challenge of not only breaking free of the prison walls - but also escaping Alcatraz island, surrounded by deadly ocean off the coast of San Francisco.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/349350

Get it and take on your greatest challenge yet. Then cry for mercy to us in the comments. We can't wait to add your tears to our collection.

Love,

MT17 & Chris D