12 Facts About Insaniquarium

Insaniquarium is a 2001 virtual pets simulator video game developed by Flying Bear Entertainment and published by PopCap Games.

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.

Insaniquarium is a virtual pets simulator with a blend of elements from action, strategy, and puzzle video games.

Insaniquarium can be played in five modes: Adventure, Time Trial, Challenge, or Virtual Tank.

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Insaniquarium came across the website for PopCap Games and found their games better than the other Java games he was researching.

Fan's main purpose with creating Insaniquarium was to develop a video game to enter into the Independent Games Festival, having decided to do so along with Henderson after seeing the independent games in Game Developers Conference 2001 .

Fan was in a cyber cafe in Hawaii when he heard that Insaniquarium made it into the festival as a finalist, to which he openly screamed with joy.

Insaniquarium later won the festival's category "Innovation in Game Design".

Blizzard allowed Fan to develop Insaniquarium before working with them, and PopCap Games aided Fan on Insaniquarium for the next two years.

IGN reported in December 2005 that Insaniquarium Deluxe reached over 18 million downloads on the PC.

Stuart Dredge from Pocket Gamer noted how Insaniquarium constantly introduced new resources to keep the game interesting, though, in contrast to Rupert, Dredge said that players would tire of the game faster than they would hope.