A portion of a PALGN interview with Steve Fawkner, CEO of Infinite Interactive...

PALGN: ...So okay, with Neopets Puzzle Adventure, how did your relationship with Nickelodeon and Neopets come about? That's quite an interesting direction, quite a large thing actually, given the size of Neopets.

SF: Yeah you know, Neopets is an absolutely huge thing, I didn't realise how huge until I actually looked at it. Capcom - we have known a lot of the guys at Capcom for quite awhile - their agent, Ed Daly ... who looks after all of their deals in the U.S, he knows the guys at Capcom pretty well. They were looking to do a Neopets game with Nickelodeon, and they were all big Puzzle Quest fans, so they approached us and said, 'You guys interested in doing kind of a Puzzle Quest-ishy Neopets game?' and I took it back to the studio and said to the guys, 'Hey guys are we interested in doing this?' because I like to run it past the people here first. I was surprised how many people in the studio actually played Neopets, it was a bit of a shock to me actually...

Full interview here