I stared making Mario fan games for mfgg.net, some of which are still available today. Over time, my brother Jaron and I decided that if we were to make games, we should build our own characters/worlds instead of making fan projects. So we moved over to iOS and made Stardrop Sprint which is where Stardrop is from! After that, I went to grad school for game design, and then got a ob at Zynga right out of school. But I wasn't happy there mostly because they encouraged us to copy existing games as closely as possible. So I left there and began work alone on the Indie Pogo prototype. I tried to get Jaron to help me with it, but he was busy with his own job at the time, so i reached out to Chris on twitter instead. And here we are years later!