However, going from Nanosaur to Bugdom required some massive modifications to the Nanosaur engine to get better performance and higher quality renderings. Little kids love dinosaurs, and being able to play a dino really appealed to them. Bugdom has the same kind of appeal as Nanosaur, but even more so. This time the player gets to play a bug, but this bug has much more interaction with the other bugs and with the environment. There is flying, riding, swimming, jumping, rolling, and so on.
Kids think the characters in the game are really cool.
So do some adults. Our first published title was Xenocide for the Apple IIgs. As a result, our four most recent games have all been b undled on Macintosh Performas or iMacs. Nanosaur, for instance, has been on every iMac sold from the day the iMac was launched. That's part of our formula for success in the Mac market.