Mucky Foot Productions Limited was a British video game developer, which existed from 1997 to 2003.

History

The company was founded in 1997 in Guildford,

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by three ex-

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developers: Mike Diskett, Fin McGechie and Guy Simmons. They intended to avoid the expansion and corporate atmosphere that had taken over at Bullfrog. Another ex-Bullfrog stalwart, Gary Carr, joined as the fourth director shortly afterwards. A worldwide publishing deal with the UK publisher

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was announced in October 1997. That announcement was also used to announce Mucky Foot's first game '' Urban Chaos''. At this point the game was referred to by its earlier work in progress name of ''Dark City''. Over their lifetime Mucky Foot went on to release two more titles: '' Startopia'' and ''

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''. Despite high initial expectations, the company closed its doors in late 2003. This company closure saw six further games cease development while still only part produced like ''Bulletproof Monk'', ''The Punisher'', and ''Urban Chaos 2''. After the company closed, their official website remained active. However, its content at closure was replaced with the developer's internal quote sheet. In May 2017 Mucky Foot's Mike Diskett released the

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of ''Urban Chaos'' under the

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.UrbanChaos
on Github.com

Games

References

External links

Mucky Foot game list
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Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom Video game companies established in 1997 Video game companies disestablished in 2003 Companies based in Guildford Defunct companies based in Surrey Video game development companies 1997 establishments in England 2003 disestablishments in England {{UK-videogame-company-stub