Murphy slowly became the only programmer on the project: "I put in a lot of free time over a summer spending nights out at his house debugging Black Cauldron.

"[2] During the development of The Black Cauldron, Murphy and Crowe discovered their mutual fondness for science fiction.

[6] Murphy had been fired a month and a half prior, and as he had no formal education beyond high school, took up odd jobs and eventually moved to Alabama to support his mother.

[1][4] In 2012, Murphy and Crowe came back together, and were joined by Chris Pope to start their own company called Guys from Andromeda.

Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, they began work on a project called SpaceVenture as a spiritual successor to the Space Quest series.