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)
Platform(s)
Release
August 31, 2001
  • Java
    • WW: August 31, 2001
    PDA
    • WW: April 2004
    PC
    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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