In 2001, George Fan, a Californian developer, created a game called Insaniquarium that mixed pet simulation, strategy, action and puzzles. That is, a completely original title that would change the rules of the game.
Sexy Action Cool had already changed its name to PopCap, and its success was such that it even acquired a casual games company and expanded outside Seattle: they opened a company in Dublin and planned, between sequels to Bejeweled and other casual video games (such as Peggle and Bookworm), what they had always wanted to do. Between Diamond Mine and Bejeweled it took four months of development and they achieved more than ten million units sold between all the platforms where it was adapted, from Blackberry to… the first iPod. Sadly for them, the game did not succeed (for whatever reason) and in fact it is currently lost, but the fame they did not get then was achieved with their next release, the famous Bejeweled (formerly known as Diamond Mine), which at that time was played directly from the Internet. Their first attempt was Foxy Poker, which was about, you guessed it, a game of strip poker.
The idea was to create innovative video games that they were passionate about, even if they first had to make cheap but attention-grabbing stuff to make easy money. Jason Kapalka founds Sexy Action Cool, his own video game company, together with John Vechey and Brian Fiete. So… What has become of them? Sexy Action Cool But 14 years have passed since that first game and since then we haven’t had much news from PopCap, its developers. Surely you remember the first time you played Plants Vs Zombies: a game as simple in appearance as it was complex to master, which relied on the player’s ability to plant the right sunflowers and place the perfect plants and guessing strategies that ended on a high note, with one of the biggest hits in the history of video games (only second only to Portal’s Still Alive).
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