We didn’t have anything extremely like that in the game, so that’s where the potato mine came from. Part of the coolness is setting up the traps and the payoff. I thought we needed to capture that a bit more.
Zombies I remembered how much I liked the last part of that movie. GamesBeat: I never thought of the Swiss Family Robinson as an RTS.įan: Right! Jumping ahead a bit, midway through Plants vs. That always gave me this unique defense, survival, setting things up feeling.
#Plants vs zombies background movie#
I kept thinking, “Why is this so compelling to me?” It made me think of this movie - I can’t say I watched the whole movie, but as a kid, I would watch the last part of the Swiss Family Robinson, the part where they set up the tiger traps and get the coconut bombs ready for the pirates to storm their settlement. There was a bunch of tower defense games in the Warcraft III engine. One of the things that was popping up a lot that I found myself really drawn to was the tower defense. Naturally, when Warcraft III came out I played that a bunch, but I spent even more time in their custom map system, where players could make their own game modes based on the Warcraft III engine. Every single game of theirs that would come out, I’d devour. The original seed got planted in my mind about it when - I’ve been a long-time fan of Blizzard’s games. GamesBeat: Going back further than that, can you talk about the origin of it and how long it took to get done?įan: The origin came from two angles. Is that going to be an issue?” But they assured me that it’s different audiences, so it would work out fine, and it did. “We’re selling it for a lot less on Steam than on our main site. It’s possible that it came out on Steam on the same day, but I feel like I remember we were in talks about that, and that might have happened a little bit later. I know it was launched on PopCap’s - remember when PopCap just sold stuff on their site? A few other casual game sites had it too, on the same day. GamesBeat: Was that a launch on Steam? What was the actual occasion for that?įan: I believe it didn’t come out on Steam until a little bit later. I was planning to do this kind of thing on the 8th instead, but someone corrected me.
I think the reason I keep thinking it’s the 8th is because someone at PopCap, when it released, made a joke about “Cinco de Ocho,” so I kept thinking it was on the 8th. įan: I kept thinking it was May 8, but it’s May 5, Cinco de Mayo. We’re taking the helm here and making sure something happens. GamesBeat: I wonder if they’ll do anything to celebrate it themselves, over at EA.įan: I haven’t heard anything. GamesBeat: Have you tracked how many copies it’s sold, how many people played it, all that stuff? It must be harder to do that now.įan: I haven’t tried, but I don’t know if the people at PopCap would tell me these things. Whoa, it’s been that long since we released this thing? It’s made me recently go back and reflect on what it was like making the game, what kind of impact it’s had. I’m curious what it makes you think about.įan: It doesn’t feel like it’s been 10 years. GamesBeat: We’re at the anniversary 10th here of Plants vs.
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