社交游戏开发商Zynga首席设计师布莱恩·雷诺兹（Brian Reynolds）最近在媒体采访中表示，比起大制作的掌机游戏领域，在线休闲游戏更重视设计师的作用和价值。

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据雷诺兹将过去的事业生涯与现在的工作进行了一番比较，“我在Zynga所负责的事项之一，就是将资深游戏设计师引进公司，我发现他们在这里会找到更多游戏设计的乐趣，这就是在这个新兴游戏领域工作的优势。”

“社交游戏设计师的地位比AAA级游戏设计师更重要，因为在AAA级游戏领域，你得投入大量时间去创建开发技术和工具，制作大量动画效果之类的东西，游戏设计师总有好几个月时间无所事事，但社交游戏领域却是游戏设计充分施展才能的乐园。”

雷诺兹指出，Facebook及其他社交网站上涌现的大量社交游戏用户，可以让设计师实现自己的梦想，“我在这周与一位著名的游戏元老交流的时候，他说‘我真羡慕你们，因为你们在做的事情正是我一生的梦想，也就是为成百上千万的用户开发游戏。”（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Zynga: Social Game Industry is “Designer’s Paradise”

Social gaming outfit Zynga has waxed lyrical about the state of the industry, claiming that game designers are much more valued and needed in the creation of online casual games than they are in big budget console titles.

Speaking with Industry Gamers, Zynga’s chief designer Brian Reynolds spoke of his career past and how it compares to this new gaming space. “One of the things I do is I recruit very senior game designers into Zynga and what I’ve found is a growing interest that people are realizing that there’s actually more game design to be done. This is work at the cutting edge of a new space.

“A game designer is actually more important on a social game than on a triple-A game because on a triple-A game you spend a lot of time making technology and tools and gigabytes worth of animations and things like that, and I can remember whole months going by where they didn’t need me to do any game design whereas on social games it’s a game designer’s paradise.”

Reynolds added that the creation of this new audience that sees games appearing on Facebook and other social networking websites has allowed designers to fulfil their dreams. “I was talking this week with a very veteran and well known games designer and he was saying, ‘Wow, I’m really jealous of you guys because you’re achieving what’s been my lifelong dream, which is to make a game that tens of millions of people can play’.”（source:spong）