Plants vs. Zombies
Three former PopCap employees debunked the notion that Fan was fired because of his concerns over the game, including Allen Murray, a former producer of "Plants vs. Zombies 2". They said Fan was fired as part of the systematic lay-offs in August 2012, and he was not even part of the "Plants vs. Zombies 2" team; he was working on other ideas for games at the time, including a game called "Full Contact Bingo". He had lost interest in "Plants vs. Zombies" when EA began envisioning the game as a huge franchise. Fan worked on the arcade action-strategy game "Octogeddon" after being laid off, initially as part of a Ludum Dare contest. The game idea was received positively and Fan formed a company along with Werner, the artist of "Plants vs. Zombies", and Kurt Pfeiffer, the programmer of the Xbox 360 port. They developed "Octogeddon" for several years, releasing it on February 8, 2018, to generally positive reviews, according to Metacritic.