Insaniquarium

Insaniquarium
Developer(s)	Flying Bear Entertainment
Publisher(s)	PopCap Games MumboJumbo
Designer(s)	George Fan
Programmer(s)	George Fan Brian Rothstein Thien Tran
Artist(s)	John Langley Walter Wilson[b]
Composer(s)	George Fan Jonne Valtonen
Engine	PopCap Games Framework
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Mobile phone Palm OS Windows Mobile PDA
Release	August 31, 2001 Java WW: August 31, 2001 PDA WW: April 2004 PC WW: 2004[a] Mobile phone NA: April 13, 2006 EU: June 29, 2006 Palm OS, Windows Mobile WW: August 6, 2008
Genre(s)	Puzzle, virtual pets
Mode(s)	Single-player

Insaniquarium is a 2001 virtual pets simulator video game, developed by Flying Bear Entertainment and published by PopCap Games and MumboJumbo. Before PopCap Games's involvement, the game was a web-based Java game released in 2001. The game was made downloadable by PopCap Games in 2004 and was ported to mobile devices in 2006 and 2008 by Glu Mobile and Astraware respectively. Insaniquarium has the player maintain a tank full of fish while protecting it from alien attacks.

Insaniquarium was mainly designed and programmed by George Fan through his company Flying Bear Entertainment. His main intention was to have the game featured in the Independent Games Festival. After learning the game had made it as a finalist, Fan paired up with PopCap Games to make the game downloadable. The game was a success, garnering general praise for its fast-paced gameplay, and was downloaded 20 million times as of April 2006.

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