Cryptic Allusion is an independent developer, previously focused on creating games for the (already defunct) Sega Dreamcast. Originally founded by Dan Potter as a web development company.
The company only released one commercially available product via the GOAT Store: "Feet of Fury - Mobile Tactical Dancing Action", a title meant to poke fun at other games which added sometimes nonsensical series of adjectives, a lá "Metal Gear Solid: Tactical Espionage Action".
In 2001, a Dreamcast-bootable disc was released to the Internet as well as passed out to convention-goers at E3 by members of Cryptic Allusion (and friends). That disc was titled "DC Tonic" and contained demo code projects by Harmlesslion, Ganksoft Entertainment, Napalm, Cryptic Allusion. The original discs had black data sides (similar to original Dreamcast GD-ROMs), with monochrome, laser-printed labels, and came in colored jewel cases in an array of four colors.
Dan personally wrote the vast majority of code for Cryptic Allusion's products based on the LibDream library, for which he was also a major contributor. Later, that library would be incorporated into KallistiOS, a pseudo-real-time operating system for game consoles.
In 2002, Roddy Toomim joined to contribute music, sounds and to act as a contract manager for the project which would become Feet of Fury.
In 2004, work began on porting the Amiga CD32 game "Donk!" to Dreamcast with the go-ahead given by the original developers, Supervision. An original soundtrack would be created by Roddy, as well as an alternate soundtrack provided by musical group Avenpitch. This work, however, would prove to be too much for a two-person company (one of whom was the sole developer: Dan), and would eventually languish into obscurity.
The forums for the company are still around for historic purposes, but there has been no active development on any projects since 2005.
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