Mucky Foot Productions

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| type = Private

| fate = Liquidation

| predecessor = Bullfrog Productions

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| foundation = January 1997

| defunct = November 2003

| location = Guildford, England

| industry = Video games

| products = Urban Chaos
Startopia

| key_people = Mike Diskett
Fin McGechie
Guy Simmons
Gary Carr

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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, United Kingdom by three ex-Bullfrog developers: Mike Diskett, Fin McGechie and Guy Simmons.{{cite web |url=http://games.ign.com/objects/026/026878.html |title=Mucky Foot |website=IGN |accessdate=2008-02-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213071611/http://games.ign.com/objects/026/026878.html |archivedate=December 13, 2010}} They intended to avoid the expansion and corporate atmosphere that had taken over at Bullfrog.{{cite magazine|title=The Great Escape |magazine=Next Generation |issue=34|publisher=Imagine Media |date=October 1997|pages=42–43}} Another ex-Bullfrog stalwart, Gary Carr, joined as the fourth director shortly afterwards.

A worldwide publishing deal with the UK publisher Eidos 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Eidos%2BInteractive%2BSigns%2BWorldwide%2BPublishing%2BDeal%2Bwith%2BFormer...-a019905766|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011162930/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Eidos+Interactive+Signs+Worldwide+Publishing+Deal+with+Former...-a019905766|title=Eidos Interactive Signs Worldwide Publishing Deal with Former Bullfrog Members; Mucky Foot Is the New Development Company Formed by Three Former Bullfrog Members|website=Business Wire|archivedate=October 11, 2012|date=October 22, 1997|accessdate=September 14, 2023|via=The Free Library}}

Over their lifetime Mucky Foot went on to release two more titles: Startopia and Blade II.

Despite high initial expectations, the company closed its doors in November 2003 due to a decline in both business and financial stability.{{cite web |url=http://www.gamespot.com/news/6078048.html |title=Mucky Foot shutters doors |publisher=GameSpot (Thorsen, Tor.) |date=2003-11-03 |accessdate=2008-02-25}} This company closure saw six further games cease development while still only part produced like Bulletproof Monk, The Punisher, and Urban Chaos 2.{{cite web |url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_146/4839-Footprints |title=Footprints: The rise and fall of Mucky Foot |accessdate=2009-02-10}}

In May 2017 Mucky Foot's Mike Diskett released the source code of Urban Chaos under the MIT license on GitHub.{{Citation |last=dizzy2003 |title=MuckyFoot-UrbanChaos |date=2023-06-27 |url=https://github.com/dizzy2003/MuckyFoot-UrbanChaos |access-date=2023-06-30}}