手机应用市场没有标准的成功法则，如果真有的话，ngmoco公司的运营路线应该算是一例，因为他们所涉足的领域（包括Gun Range、WeFarm、Rolando以及Plus+游戏网站等）都顺利转变成真金白银，但遗憾的是，他们的产品投放宿主目前仍仅限iOS一家。

ngmoco building Plus+ for Android

早在今年二月份，ngmoco公司CEO尼尔.杨还信誓旦旦地宣称，虽然他们很看好Android的发展前景，但仍然专注于为iPhone平台提供服务。有钱能使鬼推磨，果不其然，就在谷歌集团向其注资300至500万美元后，ngmoco随即动摇立场，决心面向Android开拓业务。

ngmoco的两条招聘广告最先走漏消息，表明他们有意进军Android市场：

一是“Android客户工程师”，岗位职能是“优化Plus软件开发工具包，完善基于Android平台的高级社交网站”。Plus+是ngmoco的一个iOS平台专用的游戏应用解决方案，可以为游戏设置玩家排行榜、好友挑战记录、游戏成就等功能。但苹果现在已经决定自己为Game Center的游戏产品开发此类解决方案，ngmoco完全有理由投奔其他平台开发产品。

二是“Android软件测试工程师”，岗位要求是“测试投放Android平台的新款手机游戏”。ngmoco既是游戏开发商又是社交网站开发者，因此该职位招聘可能有两层用意：ngmoco需要专业的工程师测试自己开发的Android游戏，或者测试Plus+在第三方游戏上的运行情况。

为求证这一说法，我们联系了ngmoco公司的两名负责人，其中一人表示无可奉告，另一人则在提到关键问题时断了信号，当然这有可能是个巧合。

种种迹象表明，ngmoco公司已决意开发自己的Android游戏。Android的手机销量一直狂飙不止，但Android平台的手机游戏却鲜有轰动的精品，因此ngmoco决不可能对这个潜力无限的市场无动于衷。

Google’s Investment Pays Off: Ngmoco Building Plus+ (And Possibly Games) For Android

There’s no absolute formula for success in the mobile app world — but if there was, ngmoco would probably be amongst those closest to having it figured out. Just about everything they touch (Gun Range, WeFarm, Rolando, and their Plus+ gaming network) turns to gold; unfortunately, the only stuff they’ve touched so far has been exclusively for iOS.

Back in February, ngmoco CEO Neil Young said they were “encouraged” by Android’s growth, but that they’d be sticking with the iPhone for the time being. Oh, how quickly a big ol’ cash injection can change plans; just a month after an estimated $3-5 million investment by Google Ventures, ngmoco is seemingly looking to dive head first into Android development.

Word of their new Android endeavors comes from two separate job posts.

The first is for an “Android Client Engineer“, whose sole listed responsibility is to “Contribute to the development of the Plus SDK, the premium social network for Android”. Here’s the thing: Plus+, which is ngmoco’s pre-built solution for adding things like leaderboards, friend challenges, and achievements to games, is currently an iOS-only product. With Apple having decided to offer up their own official solution for such things with Game Center, ngmoco’s got plenty of reason to start building up their catalog elsewhere.

The second job listing is for an “Android Software Test Engineer”, who would be tasked with testing “new mobile games for Android”. Alas, due to ngmoco’s dual-role as a development house for games and a development house for a social network intended to be integrated into other’s games, this can be taken two ways: either ngmoco is making games that need testing, or they’re looking for someone to make sure Plus+ works well in any third-party games that make use of it.

We reached out to the company for clarification. To two different people, actually. One didn’t respond, and the other… signed off of AIM as soon as I mentioned it. A coincidence, I’m sure.

With that said, it’s almost certainly safe to assume that this means they’ll be building Android games of their own. Android’s hardware sales numbers are skyrocketing, yet the number of high-quality games for the platform is still shockingly low. It’d be crazy for them not to start dabbling with Android right now.（source：mobilecrunch）

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