I'm one of the co-founders of Butterscotch Shenanigans, a relatively new indie studio based in St. Louis. I do mostly programming, though a tiny bit of art from time to time, and the occasional blog post.
I got into game development while in law school, as something to do to keep me sane. It wasn't long before I realized that I enjoyed making games way more than reading supreme court opinions, so I left my potential law career in the dust and began teaching myself programming and game design like a madman.
We launched a small puzzle game called Gerblins in September, and it failed to gain traction. In January, it was suddenly resurrected -- not by us, but by pirates. This post goes into detail on how we think it happened.
