It started as a coding exercise, controlling a ball with the mouse was amusing so I began putting stuff around it. I wanted to add a little retro touch so I decided to pay homage to the iconic Laïka, first living being send into space and who died aboard Sputnik II after a few hours, due to cooling malfunction (wich is kind of tragic). Anyway I tried to keep new stuff coming level after level. I did lots of tests to get a good difficulty progression.