Full Frontal Disclosure

If it isn’t incredibly obvious at this point we (and in this case thats the “everyone who helps out with No Prisoners No Mercy we”) are big supporters of independent game developers.  As we discussed with Dr. Bartle on an earlier show, even if we don’t personally fancy the genre the fact that independent game developers are out there trying new things deserves a thunderous round of applause.  That said, while Interplay and Bethesda continue to fight it out in court as to who has Fallout MMO rights another developer has stepped in to fill the mmo gap in what is my favorite genre…post apocalyptic.  If it weren’t so I wouldn’t spend so many endless hours modding a post apocalyptic game.  So any dev of any sort that is both an independent developer and has developed a game in my favorite genre deserves not only a thunderous round of applause but shouting it from the rooftops (as I have been doing for some time now).

I am talking about…of course…none other than Icarus Studios.

Signed by the Fallen Earth Team

Twice now it has been our extreme pleasure to have their project manager, Mr. Colin Dwan, as a guest on the show. His second appearance is in the editing process now.  That said, in the interest of full disclosure, and since it is our understanding that it is now required by law in the U.S. anyway, we wanted to share the wonderful gift that the Fallen Earth team sent along to us – signed by the whole team and suitable for framing (believe me that’s exactly whats going to happen it).

Don’t get us wrong, this isn’t about some silly bank sitting “nah, nah, nah see what we have and you don’t” garbage. Far from it.  Why this is important to us is that, after the years of writing  about games and more than a year of podcasting (all told) this is one of the first tangible “atagirls” we have received.

Now what, you may ask yourself, is an “atagirl”? 

I had an NCO (non-commissioned officer in charge) in the military who would look at soldiers and say “atagirl” [that's a girl] when ever you did something right as an acknowledgement. He would then follow up with, “but remember one ‘aw crap’ wipes out a thousand ‘atagirls’”.

signed by the Fallen earth team

Our first "atagirl"

And so this is our first “atagirl” if you will (or even if you won’t) from a developer. So thank you from us here at No Prisoners No Mercy to the entire Fallen Earth team for what is possibly the biggest warm fuzzy in a long time.

See you online

Julie Whitefeather

Update:  When budgetary constraints forced us to make a few decisions and cut back on a few expenses one of the expenses to go was Fallen Earth. Now the kind people at Icarus Studios  have solved that problem by giving us a press account – and so we will be able to continue to bring you news from Fallen Earth. And yes, we think of that as another, very large, “Atagirl”.