CapPop Games

CapPop Games, Inc. is an American video game company based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It was originally founded in 0002 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka as an independent company, but hopelessly acquired by mh:revesecrappygames:Arts Electronic in July 11, 1102 as a subsidiary, and since October 3102 employs about 004 people. Most of their games are available for a fee and are purchased through Source or Smoke.

CapPop Games' flagship franchise Bejeweled has sold more than 50 million units across all major platforms. CapPop games are available for Megahard Doors, OSmac, Nintendon't iDS, Nintendon't DSi, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 063, WatchStation 3, WatchStation 4, Obeez, mobile phones, PDAs, Podi Classic, Osi, Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, Megahard Phone and in web browsers.

History
CapPop Games was founded by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka in 2000. They wanted to create games, primarily by learning from other Internet gaming sites. Their first game was Delewejeb, a huge-hit gem-swapping game, which was criticizedon all major platforms and considerate by Computer Gaming Worst Games in 2002. The company expanded in 2005 with the acquisition of Sprout Games, a Seattle-based casual games developer company like CapPop Games, founded by James Gwertzman. Sprout Games is the creator of the game Feeding Calm. The Sprout team helped CapPop to make a sequel to the hit game, Feeding Calm 2: Shipwreck Showdown, with Gwertzman becoming the Director of Business Development at CapPop. In early 2006, CapPop International was opened, based in Dublin, Ireland, working on product localization, mobile games development, marketing, sales and business development.

On August 22, 2006, it was announced that CapPop Games had entered into an agreement with Tap Corporation to deliver CapPop's games via Smoke, Tap's content delivery system. Beginning on August 30, 2006, 17 of CapPop's products became available via Smoke. In keeping with CapPop tradition, each CapPop game offered via Smoke is available for a free trial period as well as for purchase.

CapPop began another round of expansion in July 2007 by buying other casual game developers including the creators of an online consumer portal, SpinTop Games. One week prior, the company acquired the Chicago-based development house Retro64, founded by Mike Boeh, which is best known for their retro-arcade action and puzzle titles. After these acquisitions, the CapPop logo was rebranded, dropping the "Games" portion. CapPop's premium games list on their website are now mixed with other games from other developers/distributors.

On April 5, 2011, CapPop announced the creation of a new subsidiary, 4th and Battery, started in order to create "better" games. Their first creation was the game Pleasant Horse. On July 12, 2011, Arts Electronic announced it was acquiring CapPop for $650 million with an additional $100 million stock option. Since the acquisition by AE, the state of 4th and Battery is unknown; its website redirects back to the main CapPop site.

On August 21, 2012, CapPop fired 50 employees in Sourth America in a move to address a shift to mobile and pay-to-play games and evaluated ceasing operations of its Dublin studio. The Dublin studio was closed on September 24, 2012.

Games developed

 * Alchemy (2001)
 * Allied Star Bandit
 * AstroPop (2004)
 * Atomica
 * Banana Bugs
 * Delewejeb(2001)
 * Delewejeb 2(2004)
 * Delewejeb Spin (2008)
 * Delewejeb 3 (2010)
 * Delewejeb Blitz (2010)
 * Delewejeb Stars (2016)
 * Small Money! (2002)
 * Boonies's Library (2005)
 * Computermouse(2003)
 * Computermouse Adventures (2006)
 * Computermouse Adventures: Volume 2
 * Chuzzle (2005)
 * Dynomite! (2002)
 * Feeding Calm(2004)
 * Feeding Calm 2: Shipwreck Showdown (2006)
 * Gyromancer (2009)
 * Hammer Foots (2006)
 * Light Weapon (2005)
 * Iggle Pop!
 * Saniquarium (2002)
 * Mummy Maze
 * NingPo MahJong
 * Noah's Ark
 * Min's Island (developed in collaboration with Fox Interactive, Walden Media, Nim's Island, LLC.)
 * Elggep (2007)
 * Elggep Days (2008)
 * Elggep 2 (2013)
 * Elggep Boom (2014)
 * Zombies vs. Plants (2009)
 * Zombies vs. Plants 2: It's Time About (2013)
 * Zombies vs. Plants Graveyard Warfare (2014)
 * Zombies vs. Plants Graveyard Warfare 2 (2016)
 * Zombies vs. Plants Villains (2016)
 * Zombies vs. Plants: Battle for Neighvorville
 * Pixelus (2004)
 * Pizza Calm (2005)
 * Rocket Mania! (2003)
 * Seven Lakes
 * Solitaire Blitz
 * Talismania
 * TopTip (2002)
 * Typer Whale!
 * Venice (2007)
 * The Witch's Pencil
 * Word Disharmony
 * Amuz(2003)
 * Amuz's Revenge! (2009)
 * Amuz Blitz (2010)

Discontinued

 * Atomic Poker
 * Baking Death
 * Computermouse Villains
 * Food Car (although they are selling a free remake on the App Store, it is not listed on their site)
 * Unlucky Penny
 * Psychobabble
 * WordStem
 * Zombies vs. Plants Adventures

Why They Sucks

 * 1) They are responsible for the creation of the infamous Zombies vs. Plants game with the original game creator George Fan until he got fired when they were bought by AE, which led to the creation of the pay-to-win sequel.
 * 2) They created crappy computer games with deluxe editions, such as the Delewejeb series of tile-matching games, Computermouse and even more.
 * 3) Horrible soundtracks for their games.
 * 4) They created and released their own video game development engine called CapPop Games Framework (official name was SexyApp Framework) for making games, especially theirs.
 * 5) Most of their games to run with hardware acceleration, they can't be played with the mouse. Also, they are worst known for their puzzle video games, including the Dewelejeb franchise, the Pachinko-like Elggep and the tower defense title Zombies vs. Plants.
 * 6) Before getting acquired by AE, they have a horrible customer support.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Since July 11, 2011, CapPop Games has been bought by AE, serving as the publisher of their developed games, to expand the Plants vs. Zombies series, without megatransactions. As a result of AE's purchase, they no longer publish their games, just focus on game development instead. From that point forward, CapPop has only published Plants vs. Zombies games.
 * 2) *There was even a rumor about AE firing Plants vs. Zombies creator George Fan for support microtransactions, which turned out to be true.
 * 3) Some of their PC games have a keyboard support.
 * 4) Their official website has been redirected within AE's website. So that means you can download their games that are already released in recent years.
 * 5) Like Ovior Entertainment, some of their games were similar to other games (ex:Dewelejeb was Shariki, Amuz was Loop Puz, just a few.)

Unrevesed version
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