Mucky Foot Productions Limited
Overview
Mucky Foot Productions Limited was a UK company made up of former
Bullfrog employees. The company was active between 1997 and 2003, and was founded by
Guy Simmons,
Mike Diskett and
Fin McGechie. They were soon joined by another Bullfrog veteran:
Gary Carr.
Mucky Foot released three games in its six years of existence. They first game was
Urban Chaos, soon followed by
Startopia.
Urban Chaos 2 never took off, and no one appeared to be interested in
Skyships, a steampunk pirate game, so they settled for the movie licensee
Blade II as their first two games and especially
Startopia had insufficient sales to make up for the development costs.
A second office was opened in Newcastle, headed by McGechie. While still working on
Urban Chaos 2, the titles
The Punisher and
Bulletproof Monk demanded most of their attention. The developers also toyed with the idea of developing a remake of the 8-bit title
Barbarian and
ER Tycoon as an update of
Theme Hospital, two titles Carr had previously been involved with.
Half way through the development of
The Punisher, publisher
THQ, Inc. decided to take the game in-house to develop it there themselves. With a cash reserve to warrant six more months, they tried to pitch more ideas, but eventually the company was forced to close down near the end of 2003, leaving
Bulletproof Monk unfinished.
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