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Rock you收购了3D社交游戏引擎开发公司TirNua

发布时间:2010-12-04 11:19:56 Tags:,,

rock you近日正式对外宣收购3D社交游戏引擎开发公司TirNua,此举可能意在协助推动他们将在2011年推出的数款新一代的facebook社交游戏。

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rock you首席运营官Lisa Marino对外宣称TirNua将提升他们在游戏研发方面的实力。

现在当前facebook社交游戏中主流的还是2D游戏,但是3D游戏日渐成为发展的趋势,比如zynga已经率先推出了3D城建类游戏cityville。除了对3D游戏效果的追求,对TirNua的收购可能还将提升他们在同步实时游戏研发方面的能力。

TirNua在游戏引擎领域已经推进了2年半的时间,目前已经自成体系。现在仿真类游戏在facebook依然是有市场的,只是目前成功的案例并不多见。即使是TirNua在facebook的用户也少得可怜,不足10000名活跃用户。

这家总部位于加州雷德伍德的rockyou公司将吸纳TirNua10名成员,和rockyou目前的157名员工一起执行未来计划。

之前rockyou刚刚进行了裁员,其首席执行官Lance Tokuda也宣布离任。(本文由游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明:游戏邦)

RockYou announced its acquisition of TirNua, which developed a 3D social game engine that the company intends to use for several of its next generation Facebook games launching in 2011.

“This is one of our major bets,” said RockYou’s chief operating officer Lisa Marino in an interview with VC news site VentureBeat. “We believe we can make multiple games on TirNua’s engine.”

The company intends to create more sophisticated 3D titles that stand out from the simple 2D games that currently dominate Facebook. It also plans to use the platform to produce synchronous games, or releases played in real-time, similar to console and PC titles.

TirNua has worked on its engine for 2.5 years and has built a self-titled, browser-based virtual world with it. The ecology simulation game is available on Facebook, but it hasn’t found much success on the social network so far — it currently has only 9,436 monthly active users.

RockYou’s headquarters in Redwood City, California will absorb TirNua’s team of ten, boosting its total staff to around 157 employees. This acquisition follows shortly after the company laid off an unspecified but substantial amount of its workforce to shift more of its focus to social games.

Two weeks ago, RockYou revealed that its CEO Lance Tokuda resigned from his position around the time of the layoffs. The firm is currently searching for a permanent replacement and has appointed Greg Kearney, who was president of Tirnua, to vice president of engineering at RockYou. (source:gamasutra)


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