Neverending Nightmares dev releases A Mobius Proposal, the game that got him a wife

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Neverending Nightmares developer Matt Gilgenbach spent four years working on his rhythm-based side-scroller Retro/Grade only for it to sell so poorly that it didn't recoup its costs. However, during that time the indie dev created a game that was far more successful. It didn't make him a penny, but it did land him a wife.
Developed in 2010, A Mobius Proposal is a co-op puzzle game that ends in a marriage proposal to Gilgenbach's then girlfriend - and now wife - Joanne. The game misleadingly calls itself Hammertime and sees two players navigate opposite sides of a Mobius strip, each armed with a hammer that can be used to push blocks back and forth to open up a passage for the other player on their side. In the end the players unite, somehow, and an error message comes up asking player two to replace the batteries in their controller.
Of course, this was rather odd in Gilgenbach's case as the controller was plugged in. Confused by the message, Joanne opened the battery pack anyway only to find a ring inside. The clever dog.
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