# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-fan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:35:26.640Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-fan"
name: "George Fan"
slug: "george-fan"
description: "George Fan is an American video game designer who currently works as the creative director of All Yes Good. He designed Insaniquarium (2001), Plants vs. Zombies (2009), Octogeddon (2018), and Hardhat Wombat (2023). Before going into game design, Fan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000 with a degree in computer science. After graduating, he worked under Arcade Planet to develop games for their website, Prizegames.com. He eventually formed Flying Bear Entertainment and created Insaniquarium, which became a finalist for the 2002 Independent Games Festival. He then joined Blizzard Entertainment and worked there while simultaneously developing Insaniquarium further for PopCap Games, releasing the \"Deluxe\" edition in 2004."
tagline: "American video game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Fan_2018_(cropped_1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.766782666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/thegeorgefan"
    handle:    "thegeorgefan"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-fan-888a352/"
    handle:    "george-fan-888a352"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4656946/"
    handle:    "nm4656946"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2809690"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corc_Fen"
    title: "Corc Fen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fan"
    title: "George Fan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%81%D9%86"
    title: "جرج فن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fan"
    title: "George Fan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%8D%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Фэн, Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fan"
    title: "George Fan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Джордж Фен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59326283"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6056224"
    title: "George Fan"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump