After many setbacks of trying to break into the indie game dev scene via failed teams and cancelled projects, Nathan Hicks of Nate Bit Games set out to create his own first solo project. Inspired by classic retro arcade hits like Galaga and Space Invaders but with an added twist combing elements of those games and that of classic block breakers. Development of Probe started over the 2019 holiday season as a hobby project while Nathan worked a full time day job. Eventually the economy shut down due to COVID-19 in March 2020. Unemployed, the development was able to become a full time project until it's release on April 14th, 2020 with continued updates and fixes on into late summer of 2020. While it's official release was in April, it's final state is still changing in terms of aesthetics but should be 100% done by late August 2020.