thegeorgefan

Even though I jokingly shake my fist at their office every time I drive past, I bear no real ill-will towards EA. They're a corporation and corporations do what corporations do. In some ways, I couldn't be doing what I'm doing now if EA didn't buy PopCap. I can be sad that the PvZ franchise didn't go down the path I would have wanted it to (and frustrated that I can't really do anything about it), but I'm more grateful that I'm able to make games like Octogeddon exactly the way I want to now.

I don't have an unused grand vision for PvZ2 or anything. It probably would've still involved Time Travel, since that's the "take-the-sequel-to-the-next-level" theme I came up with for them. We would've just racked our brainz for cool ideas and iterated on them until we had something fun.

Of course, I would've fought to keep it pay-once-and-play. I think it's a bad idea to force a new monetization scheme onto an existing game that already worked. If you're gonna make a freemium game you gotta design it that way from the ground up.

Crazy Dave may be inspired by a real person named Dave. The real Dave didn't wear a pot on his head tho

Not quite as crazy as Crazy Dave...

One of the craziest things real Dave did was one time treat a bunch of us to a pizza buffet... Near the end, the waitress asks us if we want more. We all say "no, I'm full" and real Dave says "yes". Then, real Dave looks at his phone, says "OH SH--! I forgot about a meeting!" and just takes off, leaving us with the bill. And then the waitress brings us this giant pizza which no one can eat.

Aw, this warms my heart soo much