![]() Apple’s mobile gaming subscription service offered Vlambeer an opportunity to get the band - Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman, plus collaborators Zach Gage ( SpellTower) and Greg Wohlwend ( Threes!) - back together for one last job: reworking their mobile stalwart in time for its 10th anniversary. The game hadn’t been updated since 2017 and had compatibility issues with modern devices, but Vlambeer had disbanded in 2020. Ten years later, Ridiculous Fishing needed another save. ![]() But Vlambeer persevered, turning the fight against clones in the mobile gaming Wild West into a cause célèbre for the indie developer community, and eventually released Ridiculous Fishing into instant-classic status in 2013. One of them, Ninja Fishing, was a big hit. ![]() ![]() The Dutch duo of arcade specialists was still in the process of turning their Flash game Radical Fishing into a fleshed-out version for iOS when they were gazumped by the launch of a hit clone on the App Store… and then another… and then another. Vlambeer’s Ridiculous Fishing - formerly known as Radical Fishing - has already had one unlikely rebirth. ![]()
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