'Everyone turned us down,' Murray said in 2016. 'Actually breaking away and doing your own thing was a stupid thing to do at the time,' Murray told me in 2016.įor nine months, the Hello Games quartet worked on Joe Danger, a 3D sidescroller starring a happy-go-lucky dirtbike daredevil, and they tried to lock down a publisher. This was before the modern indie boom, at a time when XBLA was just getting started and Steam had only a handful of indie games.
UK developers Ryan Doyle, Grant Duncan, Sean Murray and David Ream founded Hello Games in 2009, after quitting their jobs at major studios like EA and Criterion. But before the indie studio scored a huge marketing deal with Sony for No Man’s Sky - before one of its founders was meeting with Steven Spielberg and appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert - Hello Games was known for the cartoony sidescroller Joe Danger. Hello Games is synonymous with No Man’s Sky, a sprawling and incredibly popular space-exploration sim that landed in 2016 and only got better with time.
