I built Hungry Galaxies over the last two years. 

What started out as a learning project, turned into a passion project, and then just became pure fun —every —single —day.

Last year I released the game on IOS — building a game server to keep track of users, scores and even participate in League Mode — a contest where players compete to win prize money. 

It was a flop. Not surprisingly because I didn't market the game, and for the contest to work, it required numbers of people to regularly play the game and compete. I thought about rigging the leaderboard, using bots, but that just didn't seem fair. 

I went through some bad months of feeling burnt out and confused – learned React, next.JS, and lots of web-dev, so not a total loss. 

But then I realised aside from trying to do something clever with leagues, leaderboards and money orientated gaming – I had a complete game all along. 

My five year old cousin spent the whole of his Christmas playing my game — he was hooked. He wanted to know what was next? "What comes after the ring planet?" "Can I try again!" 

This made me think again about Hungry Galaxies. 

I've stripped out the League, and released a pure game version for anyone who just wants to see if they can beat it.

I'm planning on adding leaderboards back in, and maybe even a Steam release. 

Then I'll get round to updating the IOS version. 

Honestly, I had this idea that to make it as an Indie GameDev, you had to be polished and present your greatest work. Now I've learned that it's about community, putting yourself out there, making mistakes, and just having fun. 

Any donations towards Hungry Galaxies will fund updates and more games. 

Dangerous,