GOOBS is my first game.

It started as a small project I was building with my daughter — just a fun thing for the two of us. Then I started bringing it to work with me on night shifts, and somewhere in those quiet hours it grew into something much bigger.

I'd come home from long shifts and show her what I'd added. She'd play it and give me her notes — 'when can we unlock more characters, dad?' — and I'd nod, and over time the game grew far past anything I originally planned.

Honestly? It just clicked. That creative itch I've had my whole life — drawing, gaming, wanting to build things — game dev scratches all of it at once. I fell for it instantly. Sure, there are head-scratching moments. Things break. Problems take countless hours of tweaking to solve. But when it finally clicks together and works the way you imagined — there's nothing quite like that. So I decided to put GOOBS on the Play Store, share it with whoever finds it, and see where the road goes.

Confession: I'm a PC gamer at heart, and somewhere in the middle of this project I looked at other mobile games and realized I may have over-engineered some of the mechanics. Did way too much. But hey — this is my first ever project, it's nowhere near perfect. 😂 Not exactly going for any game-of-the-year awards here. But I learned a ton, and genuinely loved the process. Lesson noted for next time — keep it simple. But this one is what it is, and my daughter loves it, which is honestly a win in my book.

Hope you find something to enjoy in it too.

— Jónþór Hill Jakobsson