I started the game in December 2014 as a small homage to my favorite twin stick & bullet hell games; I was a sophomore in high school at the time, and I found my partner (musician) James Hall online on the Hotline Miami 2 Steam forums. We were two strangers on the internet who had never met in real life and had quite the age gap, yet we both shared the same vision. James' music started to influence the design of the game and I displayed a very early conceptual build at Colorado Clutch Con, a competitive gaming convention, and received positive feedback there. Therefore, development continued! August 2015 I put Ultra Dance Murder on Steam Greenlight. However, it wasn't until October 2016 that the game was greenlit, during this greenlight limbo the game wen't through an identity crisis to find it's own voice and then went on hiatus. Not until recently in finishing & polishing am I finally setting out to finish that love letter to the shoot em' up genre and am ready to share it.