In 2001, Fan and Tysen Henderson founded Flying Bear Entertainment in California to work on a virtual pets video game project named FishTank. While researching Java games, Fan discovered PopCap Games and took a liking to their game library. Flying Bear Entertainment, Insaniquarium, and Blizzard Entertainment Fan said to Chris Carter, editor-in-chief of Destructoid, that before creating Wrath of the Gopher, he was unsure of whether or not he could be a game designer. The first video game he designed was the puzzle game, Wrath of the Gopher, released in 2001. Fan describes the website as "an online version of Chuck E. Career Early career įan first worked as creator of Java video games for the online gaming portal,, created by the company Arcade Planet. Fan attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a degree in computer science in 2000. Fan grew up with his brother and lived with their father.
2.2 Flying Bear Entertainment, Insaniquarium, and Blizzard Entertainment. Fan formed a developing company named All Yes Good with Rich Werner and Kurt Pfeffer and developed Octogeddon further before releasing it in 2018. Fan started developing Octogeddon and submitted it to the 2012 Ludum Dare contest. EA bought PopCap Games in 2011 and Fan was fired after his studio was closed down in 2012. Upon release in 2009, it became the best-selling game developed by PopCap. He became a full-time employee for PopCap, who supplied Fan with a team. He then joined Blizzard Entertainment and worked there while simultaneously developing Insaniquarium further for PopCap Games, releasing the "Deluxe" edition in 2004.įan left Blizzard and started developing Plants vs. He eventually formed Flying Bear Entertainment and created Insaniquarium, which became a finalist for the 2002 Independent Games Festival. After graduating, he worked under Arcade Planet to develop games for their website,. Before going into game design, Fan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000 with a degree in computer science. Zombies (2009) whilst working at PopCap Games, in addition to developing Insaniquarium (2001) and Octogeddon (2018). George Fan (born 1978) is an American video game designer who currently works as the creative director of All Yes Good.
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