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The Escapists celebrates first birthday with free map
February 12th, in the year of our Lord 2016
– To celebrate a year since the release of their indie break-out
hit The Escapists, veteran games developer and international
games label Team17 and solo indie dev Mouldy Toof Studios have
announced that they will be releasing a brand new free map,
Paris Central Pen, which will be available for all PC, Mac and
Linux owners of The Escapists via a free Steam update on the
16th February.
The all new Paris Central Pen map is inspired by the La Santé
Prison in Paris, which was once home to the infamous Carlos The
Jackel and was hailed as one of France’s most notorious and
brutal prisons.
The Escapists is the creation of former-roofer and the solo
indie developer of Mouldy Toof Studios, Chris Davis. Team17’s
CEO Debbie Bestwick, spotted the charming, 8bit, prison-escape
game during its modest Kickstarter campaign and signed The
Escapists to Team17’s games label on the 19th February 2014. It
wasn’t just Team17 and the backers who saw the potential in the
game, as The Escapists was greenlit by the Steam community
within just 96 hours of its application and featured prominently
within the Microsoft Xbox gamescom press conference.
Originally Davis had created the PC version of The Escapists in
Multimedia Fusion, a program he got for free on the front cover
of a PC magazine as a child. When he joined the Team17 label the
studio’s own team recreated the game from scratch internally in
Unity to allow Davis to bring his creation to a wider audience
across Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4.
The Escapists entered Steam Early Access on the 20th August 2014
and then launched fully on PC and Xbox One on the 13th February
2015, with a PS4 version following in May and then an Xbox 360
version in December.
Now, as The Escapists reaches its first birthday milestone, over
1.25 million copies have been sold to date with the game being
awarded a Mega Sales award from the ID@Xbox team.
The Escapists PC, Mac and Linux owners will be able to get the
Paris Central Pen free map via a Steam update to their game on
the 16th February, with the update following on Xbox One and PS4
at a later date.