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George Fan is the creator of Plants vs Zombies, alongside fascinating, playful, elegant games like Octogeddon. He's also seen as having created the best ever GDC talk, "How I got my mom to play through Plants vs Zombies." It's a beautiful bit of applied thinking about game audiences and tutorials.
More recently, he's been working on a game called Hardhat Wombat. I've been playing a build for the last few weeks and it's as elegant and interesting as ever. You play a wombat construction worker who must build various structures from - well, I'll let George explain that.
With Hardhat Wombat launching soon, I got to chat with Fan about his work in games, his early doubts, and why he likes to build projects around game jams.