Originally the product of a joint game jam, only four months passed between Peak's inception and its release in June. Within another week it had sold its first million copies.

Immediately, any plans Aggro Crab and Landfall had about what was coming next were abandoned. "When we flew to Sweden to release the game with the Landfall team, we were ready to hit the launch button and go into vacation mode," Kaman says. "That quickly became a pipe dream."