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德国社交游戏公司Bigpoint欲为其美国工作室扩充员工

发布时间:2010-09-16 16:09:03 Tags:,

随着社交游戏越来越受欢迎,硅谷成为了这一新兴行业的根据地。越来越多来自世界各地的社交游戏企业纷纷在旧金山设立办公室。最近德国游戏公司BigPoint也加入了这一行列,计划为坐落于旧金山的新游戏工作室招聘80多位职工。

此次,Bigpoint公司一共在全球计划招聘350位新员工。对于非专业人士而言,Bigpoint的这种举动似乎更像是2008年经济衰退前的商业策略。然而事实并非如此,Bigpoint的这一计划恰恰也表明了社交游戏的“淘金热”还在高速发展,尤其是在美国这个到处充满着Facebook游戏玩家的国度。

对社交游戏公司而言,聘用顶级人才是一件十分困难的事情——如何才能聘请到精通各种专业的游戏设计师、3D画家和软件开发人员呢?

持续的经济衰退似乎也给Bigpoint带来了一些劳动力资源。例如,该领域的其他社交游戏公司,如Zynga,Playdom,Playfish,CrowdStar和LoLapps等已经成功地从传统PC和视频游戏平台公司挖掘走了部分有经验的游戏开发老手。

现在,BigPoint公司计划聘请新员工研发一些即将启动新项目,其中包括为Playboy.com设计的Poisonville和免费版Battlestar Galactica,此外还有ToonRacer, The Mummy和部分未公布游戏。

Bigpoint公司的首席执行官兼创立者Heiko Hubertz表示,设立旧金山办公室能帮助Bigpoint公司更迅速地融入北美网络游戏市场竞争之中。经过6个月的精心运作,Bigpoint已经着手开发新项目。

目前,Bigpoint公司在旧金山一共有雇员20人,公司创办者Hubertz也将主要精力放在了这个新兴办公室。Bigpoint公司致力于简化浏览器在线游戏。游戏玩家可以免费进行游戏,并把现实货币转换成虚拟商品。

Seafight

Seafight

Bigpoint公司2002在德国汉堡成立,该公司开发的最知名游戏分别是2006年出品的Seafight和2007年出品的Dark Orbit。目前,Bigpoint公司的几款游戏在全球150个国家拥有25款不同语言版本。该公司总计拥有员工总数500人其发售的60款游戏在全球拥有1亿4000万游戏玩家。其主要竞争对手包括Gameforge, Jagex, InnoGames和Mail.ru Games,而公司投资方则有 GMT和NBC Universal。

Silicon Valley is ground zero for the social game industry. That’s why social game entrepreneurs from elsewhere are setting up shop in San Francisco. The latest to do so is Germany’s Bigpoint, which plans to hire up to 80 more employees for its new game studio in San Francisco.

Altogether, Bigpoint plans to hire more than 350 new employees worldwide. To the uninitiated, this may sound like a business play from 2008, prior to the world’s economic disaster. But the plans show that the social game Gold Rush is still in high gear, particularly in the U.S., where gamers are obsessed with Facebook games such as FarmVille.

It won’t be easy to find top talent — including game designers, 3D artists, and software developers with various specialties such as Flash programming. But the lingering recession will probably help the company get access to labor. On top of that, other social game companies in the region — Zynga, Playdom, Playfish, CrowdStar, and LOLapps — have had success raiding veterans from traditional PC and console video game companies.

Bigpoint plans to assign the new employees to a number of new projects that are scheduled to begin development in the coming months. Among the games Bigpoint has announced are Poisonville, a title for Playboy.com, as well as a free-to-play version of Battlestar Galactica. It is also making ToonRacer, The Mummy and an as-yet-unveiled game.

“Coming to San Francisco has helped us quickly enter and begin competing in the North American online gaming market,” said Heiko Hubertz, chief executive and Founder, Bigpoint. “After only six months of operation here, we’re ready to get started on a number of new projects that we’ll announce soon.”

The company already has 20 employees in San Francisco, where Hubertz spends most of his time now. Bigpoint makes browser-based online games that are free to play. That means users can play them for free and pay real money for virtual goods in the game as they progress.

Heiko Hubertz founded the company in 2002 in Hamburg. Among the company’s biggest titles are Seafight and Dark Orbit, which launched in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Those games are available in 25 languages in 150 countries worldwide. Altogether, the company has 60 games available and 500 employees. More than 140 million users play the company’s games. Rivals include Gameforge, Jagex, InnoGames and Mail.ru Games. Investors include GMT and NBC Universal (Peacock Equity Fund).(Source:GamesBeat)


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