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"Accumulating eggs, dashing around dodging enemies, smashing into them when you’re dominating and evading them when you’re not, scooping up the enemy team’s cache from behind them and jumping right into the lead – it’s all just really satisfying...All of this for only 99 cents. That’s a steal for a game packed with this much action and intensity!"

Read Indie Statik's in-depth review right here (spoiler alert - they said you should buy it)

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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!

-ATKMTN

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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!

-ATKMTN

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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,

-ATKMTN

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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.

-ATKMTN

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Today's GAME TALK TUESDAY is a two parter! This is part one. Here's part two. 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!

BURNING IT UP IN THE GREY MAN WITH A FIRE TECH DEMO

In the Grey Man fires are dangerous. Well - fire is obviously always dangerous, but we mean dangerous for the GM's mission. Fires are especially frequent in Tinder-Boone National Park.

Fires start and are spread organically, through multiple means - but pretty much all of them require human interaction with the environment. For instance - if a human sees the Grey Man they will drop everything they're holding and run - fishing poles, axes...cigarettes, lanterns. The lanterns and cigarettes have a small chance to start a fire if they land near a bush or tall grass, and that can easily spread to trees with low-hanging branches.

Also, humans enjoy cigarettes (for whatever reason) and can be kind of careless about 'em, especially when they're getting belligerently drunk in a forest. There will be times where lit cigarette butts might be tossed onto something flammable - it has become something of a problem in the park. The Rangers hate it but hey, the kids love to party. Gotta deal with that.

Be sure to check out part two of today's update for some of the Grey Man's abilities, and a second gameplay video! 

-ATKMTN

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GIF MONDAY 9-16-13 - SLEEPY PUP EDITION

It's GIF MONDAY again. We here at Attack Mountain would like to announce our 'Never Kill Pups' initiative. We can personally guarantee that you'll never kill a single pup in any game we ever make. Ever. You'll see above that when you get chased down by a dangerous pup in SOS, you gotta click on 'em to give 'em a nice tranq shot. Send 'em off to slumberland! Dogs are little furry people that don't deserve any sort of neck-breaking nonsense.

It is cool to blow up crates with grenades.

It is cool to look at a Luna Moth.

It is cool to chase a frog.

It's NOT cool to be captured by Forest Rangers.

It's cool to knock barrels full of dangerous flammable liquids over. It's not cool to hang out with them until a tank blows them up.

It is cool to scare the heck out of a human with the Grey Man's Blink ability.

It is cool to stand atop a cliff and stare at stuff with binoculars while your hair blows in the wind.

It is extremely cool to help ATKMTN make THE ATTACK PACK a reality by pledging today. We're done in one week folks, and it's coming down to the wire!

-ATKMTN

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What is the GM?

Alright, everybody. You've been wanting to know more about THE GREY MAN and now you’re gonna get to know it.

THE GREY MAN is an experience composed of two parts - exploration and human capture - set in the vast expanses of Tinder-Boone National Park (and Campgrounds), a protected nature preserve. GM will encounter humans camping throughout the National Park shortly after his landing on Earth, and would like to take them all back to his ship.

To capture humans, you’ll have to hover your cursor over your intended target and click. If you’re successful, you’ll trap the target in stasis, which prevents them from – well, pretty much doing anything. The cube will have a secondary wave of energy passing back and forth through it – click a second time while this wave of energy is overlapping the stasis cube to seal it up and ship it off to UFO, who will automatically analyze and document your new find!

Though the main objective throughout the majority of your experience is to use GM’s trans-dimensional powers to collect humans, you may also need to use those powers to defend yourself from some of the particularly threatening ones. That’s right – although you’re a cosmic entity of high frequency vibrational power, your abilities are dampened upon entering the dense third-dimensional reality of our planet. But you probably already figured that out.

You’ll have to avoid being tranquilized and netted for research by the troops of Forest Rangers lurking throughout the wilds of the park. Humans are always on the lookout for a new species to categorize, so why not you? You’re a great candidate!

As you explore the natural landscape of the park, you’ll become more comfortable with your surroundings and the layout of the place, which in turn will let you fine-tune your capture strategy. If a camper notices you before you lock them into stasis, they’re gonna freak out and run for their lives, so don’t blow it! Mess up once, shame on them! Mess up twice, they’re gone! Here today, gone tomorrow!

If some of those humans get away, don’t feel too bad! Time doesn’t exist for GM – it’s not going anywhere. You can always return to the area later, once the crippling fear of seeing an unexplainable energy being dies down.

The video above shows some simple examples of the capture mechanic at work in our capture test engine - which is where we will continue to terrorize our human subjects during development for your enjoyment.

That’s all we’ve got for you today – but hopefully now you’re getting a better idea of what your time in GM will entail! Come back for CONCEPT ART THURSDAY and be sure to keep supporting our Kickstarter with money punches. If you want THE GREY MAN and SOS for your computer PC machine, all it takes is one $5 uppercut and a power tweet.

-ATKMTN