By 2010, it had sold over a million copies worldwide. Upon release in May 2009, it was the fastest-selling video game developed by PopCap Games and quickly became their best-selling game, surpassing Bejeweled and Peggle. Reviewers praised the game's humorous art style, simplistic but engaging gameplay, and soundtrack. Zombies was positively received by critics and was nominated for multiple awards, including 'Download Game of the Year' and 'Strategy Game of the Year' as part of Golden Joystick Awards 2010. In order to appeal to both casual and hardcore gamers, the tutorial was designed to be simple and spread throughout Plants vs. Rich Werner was the main artist, Tod Semple programmed the game, and Laura Shigihara composed the game's music. It took three and a half years to make Plants vs. The game took inspiration from the games Magic: The Gathering and Warcraft III along with the movie Swiss Family Robinson. Zombies was designed by George Fan, who conceptualized it as a more defense-oriented sequel to his fish simulator game Insaniquarium (2001), then developed it into a tower defense game featuring plants fighting against zombies. If a zombie makes it to the house on any lane, the player loses and must restart the level. The player collects a currency called sun to buy plants. As a horde of zombies approaches along several parallel lanes, the player must defend the home by putting down plants, which fire projectiles at the zombies or otherwise detrimentally affect them. The player takes the role of a homeowner amid a zombie apocalypse. First released for Windows and Mac OS X, the game has since been ported to consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices. Zombies is a 2009 tower defense video game developed and published by PopCap Games.

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