- I Can Has Friend? - Add 1 friend - Bestest Friend - 10 friends - Lover, not a Fighter - 100 friends - You Like Me! - Added as a friend by 1 other - You Really Like Me! - 10 others - Socialite - 25 others - Pillar of the Community - 50 others - Cyber Celeb - 100 others -
- The Escapist Contributor - Become a contributor to the Escapist - WarCry Contributor - Become a contributor to WarCry - Film Maker - Granted for being a movie contributor - News Hound - Granted for being an Escapist News Contributor - Tech Team Badge - Granted to members of the Escapist's Tech Team - OMG Pony!!1 - Members of staff can award themselves this badge (also see 'Expired' contest badges) - Columnist - Awarded by and for staff members at their own leisure - Cluck, yeah, baby! - Trust in the Chicken. The chicken knows all. - Trebek in Training - Have a quiz you wrote and submitted published on The Escapist - Patron Saint of Oppression - Awarded by staff members to forum moderators both staff and voluntary - Honk, Honk! - Awarded by staff members to news contributors - Burning Brightly - Awarded for being featured in an Escapist Community Spotlight - Connoisseur - Awarded for being featured in an Escapist Review Spotlight -
Messaging
- In Touch - Receive and read personal messages (excluding system) from 10 different users - Communicator - 25 users - Connector - 50 users - Maven - 100 users -
Posting
- Notable Poster - Over 100 posts without incurring moderator wrath[3] (also requires 2 weeks membership) - Epic Poster - Over 1,000 posts (2 months membership) - Real Ultimate Poster - Over 5,000 posts (6 months membership) - Forum Explorer - Post in 4 different forum sections (e.g. Off-Topic, Gaming Discussion, Forum Games, etc.) - Forum Vagabond - 11 different forum sections - Chatty! - Comment on 100 different topics - Prolific - 1,000 different topics - Regular - Post in 13 different months - Landmark - 37 different months -
Profile
- Make Yourself at Home - Create a user profile - Face With a Name - Set an avatar - Steamy! - Link your Steam account to your profile - Play(Station)ers - Link your PSN account to your profile - X-Factor - Link your XBOX Live account to your profile - Facebook - Connect your Facebook account to your profile - Social Feedback - Posted a comment using Facebook. - Social Guru - Comment in 100 different articles - Liked It - Share an article using the Like button - Loved It - 100 articles - Twitter-er - Link your Twitter account to your profile -
User Group
- User Group Member - Member of 1user group - User Group Regular - 15 user groups - User Group Butterfly - 50 user groups - User Group Bookmark - Has posted in a user group on over 30 different days - User Group Hotkey - Has posted in a user group on over 120 different days - User Group Homepage - Has posted in a user group on over 360 days - Founder Lord - Founder of a user group with 25+ members - Founder Prince - 100+ members - Founder King - 225+ members - User Group Director - Founder of 5 User Groups with 15+ members in each - User Group Mogul - Founder of 10 User Groups with 30+ members in each -
XCOM: The Beginning
- Awarded for fighting 1 / 10 / 100 battles in XCOM: The Beginning - Awarded for winning 1 / 10 / 50 battles - Awarded for picking the Human / Alien faction - Awarded for recruiting 1 / 10 players - XCOM Enemy Unknown - Awarded for participating in the event - One of Many - Awarded for winning one battle without the complete loss of an army - XCOM General - Awarded for winning two battles consecutively - War Economist - Awarded for earning more than 10,000 treasure - XCOM Elite Commander Unit - Awarded for spawning an NPC Elite Mob - -
- Excellent Topic - Create a thread that receives over 51 replies - Amazing Topic! - 1,001 replies - Hot Topic - Create a thread that receives 1,001 views - On Fire - 10,001 views - Forum Inferno - 100,001 views[1] -
Other
- Pick Your Path: Skyrim - Awarded for completing various challenges in your adventure - PotA2 - Finished the text based game with the handkerchief / without the handkerchief[2] - The Red Button - Click any image of The Red Button 1 / enough times. Clicks only count once per hour - Thanks! - For uniquely contributing to or helping out the staff and community - Arcade Escapee - Complete the Phantom of the Arcade text-based game - Bamalam! - Available by joining the Dance Dance Kitten Revolution PM a staff member to attempt to enlist - Ubermensch - Awarded by following a link in the Play Life and Live Games article - Publisher's Club - Granted for joining The Publisher's Club - Swiss Army Chainsaw - Created by Kross due to a lack of Perl badges. Awarded by Kross for impressive perl know-how - Baby Seal Puncher - Awarded for getting 666 kills in the Satan's Retrievers game - Hand of Fate - For getting involved with deciding which Game Dogs character dies in the Hand of Fate game - +1 Badge of Mental Might - For solving The Escapist's First-Ever Puzzle Adventure - Giddyup Pony!!1 - Claim the Exclusive PubClub Pony in Facebook game Horse Club (Publisher's Club members only) - Beard Badge - Only by finding the original can you begin the quest for your own - Spinning Button - Click any image of the Spinning Button. Clicking it will cause the screen to rotate once - Lol... wut? - Awarded for meeting top secret requirements - Rainbow Powah!! - Awarded for meeting top secret requirements - Demographer 2011 - Awarded for taking part in The Escapist 2011 Reader Survey
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2012 - March 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
2012 - Game of the 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
[1]Replies and Views: Look at the FAQ on Regular and Landmark badges for why these badges aren't for 50 replies, 1000 views etc.
[2]Handkerchief: The handkerchief in 'Phantom of the Arcade 2' can be obtained by putting on the clown costume.
[3]Halloween 2010: These badges will be awarded for viewing the content even if you didn't click on the door to get to them.
[4]Halloween 2012: Like the Halloween Extravaganza, these badges will be awarded for viewing the content even if you didn't get to them via the Week of Freak page.
[5]Film Festival categories: Best Video, Best Animated Short, Best Music Video, Viewer's Choice, Best Special Effects, Most Original concept, Honourable Mentions.
[6]Escapist Community Awards categories: Best Avatar, Best Username, Best Forum Game, Best Roleplay and Best User Reviewer
[7]Unknown User: If anyone knows the fourth winner of this badge, do say so.
[8]Halloween 2010: While all the other badges are still available, these two badges are no longer available as the videos for watching them have since been deleted.
- Fighting 1 / 10 / 100 / 1,000 / 5,000 Battles in Genre Wars - Winning 1 / 10 / 50 / 100 / 1,000 Battles - Earning 10,000 / 25,000 / 50,000 / 100,000 / 1,000,000 Treasure - Winning 1 / 10 / 50 / 100 Battles without the loss of a complete army - Recruit1 / 5 / 10 other players to Genre Wars - Eliminate all three of your opponents units 1 / 10 / 50 times - Earning 20,000 / 200,000 Treasure in a single battle - Winning 2 / 5 battles without returning to base - Winning 11 / 50 battles in a row - Retreat from 1 challenge - Win a battle with an army worth less (in treasure) than half of the opponent's -
Other
- Awarded for doing tasks related to Extra Credits[2] - Awarded to participants of the Escapist's Team Fortress 2 Tourny and the top 4 winning teams - Self-awarded to Landslide as a test concept for possible future badges - Awarded for joining the Aliens Vs. Predator Battle - Awarded to Project Powder players who achieved top map times and Varchld as the Project Powder over-all winner - Voting for one of four Escapist Staff Members in a Street Fighter 4 Showdown (left) and for voting Keane Ng, the winner - Awarded for voting in every Legacy Battle 2009 poll and for voting for Half-Life, the winning Legacy - For choosing your 32 legacies and voting in every Legacy Battle 2010 poll - Awarded to users chosen to fight for the Escapist on Planetside and those who contributed to the Escapist's victory - For posting in an RP user group 250 / 1000 times. Discontinued[3] - Awarded to users who fought for Boing Boing on Planetside but have chosen to stay on The Escapist - Given to Escapists who attended an Escapist NY Comic-Con Meet-Up - Awarded to all Escapists when they won the 2009 Webby Award for 'best gaming related website' - Awarded to all Escapists when they won three cateogories in the 2011 Webby Awards - For having one of your comments published in the weekly Letters to the Editor - For viewing the PDF version of Issue #210 - For viewing the PDF version of Issue #261 - For having a comment posted in the special Escapist 4th Birthday PDF - For having a comment posted in the special Escapist 5th Birthday PDF - Awarded as a celebration to staff members who worked into the early hours finishing a special project - Given to Russ Pitts for taking a lone vacation, camping in the wilderness - Given to Greg Tito for having the commitment to come in to work even when ill - The 'Beta Chatter' badge was given to those who participated in the Escapist Live beta chat - Awarded to everybody who successfully guessed the final destination in the Desert Bus charity event - Helped spread the word about Rebecca Mayes' album launch - Awarded to the 1000 users who received Blur Beta Keys - Twittered about great game literature. #greatgamelit - For voting for 'Fanboys' (the most popular), in the What do you hate the most? poll - Visited The Escapist booth at NYCC - Awarded to Landslide for being deep, like an onion... and a cake... - For being chosen to have a Guest Review published on The Escapist - For having your Forum RPG listed within The Escapist's RP digest section - For watching the final episode of Anthony Saves The World - Awarded by staff for meeting top secret requirements! - Awarded to Formica Archonis, Gaderael and GeorgW for being the only entrants in a photoshop contest - Awarded to staff members who brought in corgis on Bring Your Dog to Work Day - Awarded to oppp7 for creating a collection of fake April Fools' day badges - Awarded to NinjaDeathSlap, Copper Zen, DVS BSTrD, Legion and Caramel Frappe for winning An Escapist Caption Contest - Awarded to users who participated in The Escapist DUST 514 Live Streaming Evening
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Footnotes
[1]Genre Wars: Online Multiplayer Strategy game on The Escapist. Now replaced by XCOM: The Beginning.
Ah, nice to see a refreshed list of badges up. Nice work, very neat and tidy.
And just a heads-up, I don't think the "Guest Reviewer" badge is available any more. The thread about how to submit a review was taken down a couple of months ago. So I'm not sure if it's still available or not :P
Sassafrass: Ah, nice to see a refreshed list of badges up. Nice work, very neat and tidy.
And just a heads-up, I don't think the "Guest Reviewer" badge is available any more. The thread about how to submit a review was taken down a couple of months ago. So I'm not sure if it's still available or not :P
Since this site is no longer accepting guest reviews, this assumption is probably correct. ;)
Sassafrass: And just a heads-up, I don't think the "Guest Reviewer" badge is available any more. The thread about how to submit a review was taken down a couple of months ago. So I'm not sure if it's still available or not :P
Marter: Since this site is no longer accepting guest reviews, this assumption is probably correct. ;)
Changed. I would prefer confirmation from Lauren Admire since she was handling guest reviews last I remember, but if the User Reviews mod is saying so then I'm willing to take that as evidence enough.
Hungry Donner: I may have missed it, there are a lot of icons up there, but I don't see the badges for the recent D&D Monster quiz.
I've only recently (recently as in less than ten minutes ago) added them in the quizzes section of the available badges. They weren't there when I originally posted the thread as it was all taken from the original gallery.
Wasn't there supposed to be special badges for watching the ASTW season finale? I watched it, and never got one, but according to Virgil in the Tech Group they were available. I guess you had to do a magic dance or something.
Zombie_Fish: I've only recently (recently as in less than ten minutes ago) added them in the quizzes section of the available badges. They weren't there when I originally posted the thread as it was all taken from the original gallery.
Ah, and I didn't refresh after looking through them all :)
Zombie_Fish: You should try looking at all the BBCode in those two posts. :P
thenumberthirteen: Wasn't there supposed to be special badges for watching the ASTW season finale? I watched it, and never got one, but according to Virgil in the Tech Group they were available. I guess you had to do a magic dance or something.
I don't actually know what's happening with those badges; I don't even know of anyone who has recieved a badge, including the guy who made the series, even though they were awarding on the first night. I may bring it up with the Tech Team tomorrow to see if some error occured after the first night, but not now since the staff are offline to my knowledge and I'm tired enough as it is.
Nivag the Owl, who made the original gallery, warned me about how much code there was in the thread before I agreed to take his place. However, I still didn't anticipate that many tags.
thenumberthirteen: Wasn't there supposed to be special badges for watching the ASTW season finale? I watched it, and never got one, but according to Virgil in the Tech Group they were available. I guess you had to do a magic dance or something.
I don't actually know what's happening with those badges; I don't even know of anyone who has recieved a badge, including the guy who made the series, even though they were awarding on the first night. I may bring it up with the Tech Team tomorrow to see if some error occured after the first night, but not now since the staff are offline to my knowledge and I'm tired enough as it is.
According to Virgil when I asked him on the Tech Group "They're definitely awarding, we had 50-something go out last night [the day the video was released]".
Good job on the gallery. I spent quite a while going through my badges to see if there was any missed off. I have a lot of badges.
I feel really Internet old when I say that I actually remember when badges were first introduced back in aught eight. We had to say 'aught' back then 'cause 4chan had stolen the word "Oh". I chased them for twenty aught miles before I gave up.
thenumberthirteen: According to Virgil when I asked him on the Tech Group "They're definitely awarding, we had 50-something go out last night [the day the video was released]".
Yeah, I saw that post in the group chat, I'm just wondering if something caused the badges to stop handing out since then.
Good job on the gallery. I spent quite a while going through my badges to see if there was any missed off. I have a lot of badges.
I feel really Internet old when I say that I actually remember when badges were first introduced back in aught eight. We had to say 'aught' back then 'cause 4chan had stolen the word "Oh". I chased them for twenty aught miles before I gave up.
...and that's how badges were invented.
As much as I hate the term, as a person on the Internet, I feel like I must respond with the obligatory 'cool story bro'.
Thank you for not removing the special thanks section. I always feel good seeing my name there. This group has done a lot for me, I'm glad to have returned the favour.
AvsJoe: Thank you for not removing the special thanks section. I always feel good seeing my name there. This group has done a lot for me, I'm glad to have returned the favour.
Since it's a continuation, people who contributed to the old thread have still contributed to this thread, so they still deserve recognition. However, I think I'll be a bit more strict on who gets into the section than it used to be, simply because so many people have contributed between the two threads and the group that listing them all there would be far too much work and would require a lot more characters.
Sevre: Good to see Zombie_Fish finally doing some work the new gallery finally go up.
Excellent work, but I have one question, do you see BBcode when you close your eyes?
Hey, I do work stuff!
And no. But after how much Computing coursework I've done this year, my dreams are now executed in VisualBasic.NET.
omega_peaches: I have a badge called "Shurikens and Lightning" How did I get it?
bdcjacko: I just got some Branson pickles, I don't know why...
They're giving out badges for watching specific Zero Punctuation episodes, from what I've seen. Virgil says that ten are going to be coming out over the next few days, as they are being implemented one at a time. This is going to be a fun week.
Sassafrass: Also, on the Regular and Landmark badges, the months should be 12 and 36 respectively, not 13 and 37.
It's 'Has posted in more than 12 months' and 'Has posted in more than 36 months', hence 13 and 37 months. You're not the first to get confused by it.
omega_peaches: I have a badge called "Shurikens and Lightning" How did I get it?
bdcjacko: I just got some Branson pickles, I don't know why...
They're giving out badges for watching specific Zero Punctuation episodes, from what I've seen. Virgil says that ten are going to be coming out over the next few days, as they are being implemented one at a time. This is going to be a fun week.
Milo Windby: Will they be added to the list at some point?
I'll add them to the list once we have all of the badges. It's simply to save time sorting out where they go in the list as well as the descriptions with them (why we're also holding off announcing them in the group).
FalloutJack: Do you have an explanation for why they don't all show up on a guy's list when they've seen ALL the ZP videos?
Firstly, you need to be signed in when you watch the videos, which is why I'm missing a few badges. Also, the servers could just be taking time to recognise it, and some of the badges still need to be implemented, as each badge has to be introduced to the system and users one badge at a time.
Other than that, if you are still missing some of the known badges by this time tomorrow and you have seen all the videos whilst signed in, feel free to contact a staff member about it.
FalloutJack: Do you have an explanation for why they don't all show up on a guy's list when they've seen ALL the ZP videos?
Firstly, you need to be signed in when you watch the videos, which is why I'm missing a few badges. Also, the servers could just be taking time to recognise it, and some of the badges still need to be implemented, as each badge has to be introduced to the system and users one badge at a time.
Other than that, if you are still missing some of the known badges by this time tomorrow and you have seen all the videos whilst signed in, feel free to contact a staff member about it.
Good to know, though I will say I keep myself signed in all the time, really.
Introduction
Available Badges
Befriending
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Content
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Contributing and Staff
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Messaging
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Posting
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Profile
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User Group
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XCOM: The Beginning
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Footnotes