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人事招募公司Vonchurch看好社交游戏从业人员将更受欢迎

发布时间:2010-10-28 11:53:07 Tags:,,

观察一个行业的活力,人事招募公司的统筹数字可以做出一个相当好的说明。

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位于旧金山的认识招募公司Vonchurch认为在未来的3到5每年时间内,社交游戏行业还有30到50亿美元的增长空间。当然种种迹象表明,Vonchurch的这种评估可能还比较保守。

在手机社交游戏开始起势的时候,后端开发、设计师、产品运营等成为了游戏界最热门的职位。而基于ios和android的无线开发者显得更为抢手。

最新的两个消息,一个来自彭博社的新闻说zynga的市值已经估值55亿美元高于EA,另外一个消息来自Futuresource,认为手机游戏的整体规模将在2014年达到100亿美元。

Vonchurch预估ipad在2011年的销量会达到2800万台,而苹果旗下的app store将会占据整个手机游戏市场30%的份额。

目前在旧金山的游戏工程师平均年龄在28岁。(本文由游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译)

A San Francisco-based recruiting firm Vonchurch estimates social gaming revenues will increase $3-5B in the next 3-5 years with evidence suggesting this number might be exponentially higher.

VonChurch, who specializes in placing engineers working in the gaming space, is seeing companies not only struggle to keep talent but find enough. Back-end development, design, and product management positions are in the highest demand while mobile steadily grows. “[The]  biggest increase that we will see in terms of a specific position will be Wireless Developers as companies

capitalize on the iPhone/iPad and Android.” The virtual goods and gaming industry is not showing any signs of slowing down either.

Zynga is valued at $5.5 Billion dollars according to a recent Bloomberg article with mobile gaming growing in direct parallel with recent expectations for mobile gaming projected at $10 Billion dollars. If these expectations are met – and most likely be passed – gaming and mobility is where talent will be heavily recruited.

With Digg recently laying off nearly 37% of its workforce, the flush of talent back on the market has been to welcoming arms. Dozens of San Francisco-based companies reached out via Twitter to ex-Diggers letting them know there’s plenty of need for talent. Which is surprising to hear as unemployment moves past 14% nation wide, businesses in gaming continues to surge.

Vonchurch has seen estimates that 2011 iPad sales might top 28million units. Apple Apps account for 30% of the mobile gaming market. Its no surprise then why Apple is rumoured to be investing in Facebook, who has previously been the leader in online social gaming.  Facebook denies these rumors.  In a earnest attempt to improve and compete, Blackberry released a new Facebook Mobile App this week.

With the average age of an engineer in San Francisco just 28 years old and numerous projects and gaming opportunities for the talented, the demand to develop quality titles that are able to translate to mobile are set high.  Social gaming companies are set to dominate the niche, while the risk for smaller companies becoming very high.  For some small firms, one under-performing title can be the end of business.(source:social times)


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