For those who just can’t get enough Plants vs. Zombies, today PopCap debuted new trading cards that will help fans become expert zombologists.
The full retail box, priced at $79.20, comes with 60 total cards, including scratch-n-sniff, tattoo and sticker cards, as well as a press sheet. Also included is either a signature card or sketch card from original Plants vs. Zombies artist Rich Werner. All profits will go to charity and sales end this Friday.
Seattle-based PopCap, also known for titles including Bejeweled, Zuma and Peggle, was acquired last year by Electronic Arts for up to $1.3 billion.
Plants vs. Zombies, originally released for PC and Mac in 2009, is available across a variety of devices and platforms. Players use pea-shooting plants and other garden-related defenses to protect a home from an advancing wave of the undead.
The game was created by PopCap game designer George Fan. On the GeekWire podcast and radio show last year, PopCap co-founder John Vechey told the story behind Fan’s creation of the game.
“He wanted to make a tower-defense style game. First he needed something that was a tower. He was like, OK, what doesn’t move that has some personality? Plants! The second thing was, OK, what could attack the plants? Aliens. So he’s making this game, Plants vs. Aliens, essentially, and he was like, this stupid, these people have come to Earth in spaceships that can travel faster than light. They’ll destroy these plants. He was really bothered by this, because it felt stupid to have a slow-moving alien. Then he was like, what about zombies? And it just sprouted from there.”
A sequel to the hit Plants vs. Zombies game will be released by late spring 2013.
