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Well jingle our jangles, what a holiday treat - THE ATTACK PACK's been greenlit on STEAM!

Thanks to your support, SOS and THE GREY MAN will be on your global Steam digital delivery service in the year 2015!

You're a bunch of sweet boys and girls - for this, Ice Senator Krimble spares your lives this winter, so that you may survive to fear the next.

GOODBYE, 2013. YOU WERE A FINE YEAR FOR EVERYONE, MAYBE, BUT ALSO, WHO KNOWS? Perhaps you had an awful year. You see, life is like a box of chocolates - you keep eating them hoping you get one you like, and sometimes you do - but mostly you get that gross hard toffee one until all your teeth fall out.

I wrote this while Bryan was in Europe for the holidays. I wanted to take a hot second to look back at 2013 and what it meant for ATKMTN. If that sort of thing bores the hell out of you then you can stop reading now.

THE ATTACK PACK - Not only did we announce it via a kickass trailer featuring the vocal stylings of The Duke, it was successfully funded on Kickstarter! Don't know if you've ever tried to fund something on there before, but MAN - I think it goes without saying that it was a rollercoaster of madness. The game got great coverage from Indiegames.com, Indie Statik, and others. We even got shoutouts from some of our heroes like Behemoth's Dan Paladin and Irrational's main man (and fellow New Yorker!) Ken Levine. We can't wait to bring SOS and THE GREY MAN to your local computertron in 2014 - IT'S GONNA BE A REAL GOOD TIME.

QUACK ATTACK 1985 - We sprung a surprise game on ya in the form of QA1985, the arcade tale of a badass duck with nothing to lose in his endless battle with the Geese gang. Indie Statik called it a 'super compelling and fun' must-play, saying that it was '[overall] really satisfying'. We used most of the profits from this game to help out victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines - worth it! (If you haven't picked it up yet ya totally should, every dollar helps)

In closing we wanna thank ya if you've been chilling out with us so far. We love making video games - ask anybody. It's been, like, our thing since we were old enough to walk/speak to one another/terrorize other people. The fact that we get to do it as grown men, on the internet? Well, baby, that sure is fine.

That's it. Go home, take a nap or a hot bath or something - but not before you add us on Twitter (@attackmountain) and Facebook (facebook.com/attackmountain)!

2013 was a year, and 2014 is also a year - a year that is shaping up to be able to destroy all other years. We hope you'll play all the games we ever make.

-ATKMTN

ATTN: LET'S HELP OUT IN THE PHILIPPINES

Our hearts go out to those affected by the devastating Typhoon Haiyan earlier this week. You might already know the stats: 9.5 million people are affected by Haiyan in nine regions across the Philippines, with 620,000+ people displaced from their homes and communities. Things are really messed up over there right now - the good news is that together we can make a difference.

We've upped the price of QUACK ATTACK 1985 to 1.99, and every Friday for the next four weeks we'll donate 75% of whatever the game made that week to Americare's Philippines Disaster Relief Fund. We chose them because 97% of the funds they receive go directly to those that need them - it doesn't get tied up in administrative costs and red tape.

Purchase the game through www.QA1985.com and we'll take care of the rest. We'll be sure to let you know how much we wind up donating each week via our twitter account (@attackmountain) and on Facebook (facebook.com/attackmountain).

Be sure to share this around - the more people that see this, the more good we can do together!

HEY KIDS! WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU FINALLY PUSH A DUCK TOO FAR? DESTRUCTION AND NEON RAGE, TURNS OUT.

CONCEPT ART THURSDAY SPECIAL EDITION - AGENT'S ADVERSARIES

In this special post, we show you the baddies that you'll be squaring off against in the first two episodes of SOS, one of the two games in THE ATTACK PACK. Here's a little synopsis for some of the characters. Check the captions to see who's who in each image!

MIGHT OF THE STEEL HAND (EPISODE 1)

Lt. Fanibhusan - The Steel Hand's watchdog. He's quite obviously touched in the head, as he is literally unable to let go of anything. Once he becomes aware of the trouble the Agent is causing, he doesn't care who or what he destroys as long as he takes the guy down. Talk about Captain Ahabing yourself. It likely has something to do with almost getting killed in a chemical attack, which gave him the complexion of a zombie and caused him to lose an eye. Chemical attacks ain't good for your brain, dude.

SIERRA NEVER (EPISODE 2)

Gunnheind: A giant of a man who wields a massive gatling gun as though it's a baby's rattle. He doesn't say much, if anything, and tends to let his actions speak for him. He was hired by Sierra Security to helm their defense efforts following their 'radical shift in business strategy'. His job interview consisted of him eating a sheet of plate glass and destroying a turret with his bare hands. He's basically unkillable, which is not good news for his enemies (you).

Interrogator Wilkes: When The Agency's kidnapped scientist Dr. Brooke proved to be a tough nut to crack, Sierra Security brought in a man with a terrifying track record in interrogation. Wilkes has never NOT gotten the information he's sought; in fact, he's so effective at what he does, that he's gotten people to admit to things they never even did. Now that's skill. Rumor has it, though, he can't quite take it as well as he's able to dish it out.

49: A man from a rival Agency, and the Agent's superior in every way. He has the edge in experience and always seems to be one step ahead of the Agent at every turn. They've spent many years clashing, and when his employer gets wind of Dr. Brooke, they send 49 to dispatch The Agent and take her for themselves. Will Agent be able to take down his long-time rival? Or is this the end of the line?

This concludes our three part CONCEPT ART THURSDAY. If you can't wait for SOS or THE GREY MAN, you should totally rally the troops and support our campaign, so that we can make these games the way they were meant to be made!

CONCEPT ART THURSDAY - COMPLETED CONCEPTS

Here's Dudu's beautiful concept art for SOS and THE GREY MAN in all of its glory, to round out the end of our Concept Art Thursday Kickstarter campaign. There's one more post after this one containing a little rundown of some of the bad guys in SOS!

We hope you have enjoyed all of this concept art coverage. If you like what you see here, we hope you'll head on over to our soon-to-be-ending Kickstarter campaign and give us a boost! USE THE BOOST TO CHASE!

CONCEPT ART THURSDAY 9-19

Here it is - our final Concept Art Thursday campaign update, full of lots of random and perhaps confusing images. Our campaign ends on 9/23, so if you haven't pledged yet, now's the time!

Let's see, what've we got here... ah, yes, Grey Man galore! A lot of the work in today's update is from Bryan's sketchbook - stuff from later on in GM's development. Basically, from when Grey Boy became a Grey Man.

You'll also notice some of Dudu's work in here as well; when we were talking about individual pieces for both projects in THE ATTACK PACK, as well as alternate character concepts for GM. We never wound up using them, but it was awesome seeing the Grey Man cast in so many different lights.

Be sure to check out our followup posts, which contains all of the final pieces of concept art for both games as well as a little extra - and then dragon kick this link around to all of your friends and tell them that ATTACK MOUNTAIN needs their help now more than ever! With 6K to go and a little over 4 days left, we are still well within striking distance.

Until next time,

Today's GAME TALK TUESDAY is a two parter! This is part two. Here's part one. This is our final GTT update before our Kickstarter ends - we're ending on 9/23, so if you haven't pledged yet, now's the time!

Game Mechanics? You want GAME MECHANICS? OH, WE'LL GIVE YA GAME MECHANICS. 

The Grey Man has a very particular set of skills - skills it's acquired over a very long career as an extra dimensional being - skills that are pretty far out of our understanding. Today we will try to decipher these anomalies so your human brains can comprehend the cosmic power at work here.

BLINK (VIDEO ABOVE): If there is one major complaint about human beings, it's that they are too darn fast! Blinking is the Grey Man's teleportation ability - why run when you can pass between planes of reality? Having trouble snagging that last pesky camper because he runs like the dickens every time you close in? Just blink! Need that extra boost of speed to nab a pair of twins out on their annual fishing trip? Blink! Blink! Sorry humans, the Grey Man isn't from this dimension and he definitely doesn't abide by your understanding of time and space. Humans better keep their guard up, because when they least expect it GM might appear behind them with a curious energy - and trap 'em in a cube.

THE MONOLITH

Wanna shoot the Grey Man? Go for it, he will simply hold his hand out and summon his first line of defense - an impenetrable wall of light energy called the monolith. Sprouting right out of the ground in front of him, the Monolith stop all sorts of projectiles (but mostly tranquilizer darts). With a quick hand this ability makes the Grey Man basically invincible to any Ranger, unless he's wandered into a pack of them. Then he might want to start levitating outta there before they take out those nets...

That's all for our update today - there's more to come this week, make sure to check back with us every day as our campaign draws to a close for more ATTACK PACK stuff.