最近，游戏公司RockYou宣布将投资和发行Loot Drop工作室的首款游戏作品。据游戏邦了解，该新兴工作室是由John Romero（《毁灭战士》开发者）, Robert Sirotek和Tom Hall三位游戏开发老手联合组建。

John Romero

在与LOLapps公司合作设计和发布知名社交游戏Ravenwood Fair后，John Romero在奥斯汀成立了Loot Drop游戏工作室。此前，John Romero也曾创立了诸如Ion Storm和Gazillion Entertainment等游戏新兴公司。

另外据游戏邦了解，Sir-Tech Sofeware的合作创建者Sirotek在Loot Drop工作室中担任首席执行官一职；而曾经与John Romero合作成立公司的Tom Hall则担任工作室负责人兼游戏设计师。

对此，RockYou公司表示此次合作象征该公司注重对创意游戏的投资，同时也证明RockYou公司拥有足够的发行和经销能力帮助独立开发商拓宽用户基础。目前据游戏邦了解，RockYou旗下各款社交游戏和应用总计拥有约2亿月活跃用户。

在过去的几个月中，RockYou公司为全力进行社交游戏开发对公司进行了全面调整，辞退了大量从事非游戏开发工作的员工，并收购3D社交游戏引擎TirNua和英国游戏开发工作室Playdemic。

对此，Romero表示“目前社交领域受到了游戏玩家的广泛关注，因此我对进军该领域十分期待。相信在RockYou公司的支持下，Loot Drop工作室将迎来良好的开端。我相信社交游戏拥有着不可预期的美好明天。”（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Social gaming company RockYou announced a deal to fund and publish the first project from Loot Drop, a new studio from industry veterans John Romero, Robert Sirotek, and Tom Hall.

After working with LOLapps, another social game firm, to design and release Ravenwood Fair, John Romero helped set up Loot Drop in Austin. The Id Software co-founder and Wolfenstein 3D/Doom/Quake designer has formed a number of game start-ups in the past, including Ion Storm and Gazillion Entertainment.

Veteren entrepreneur Sirotek, the co-founder of Sir-Tech Software (Wizardry, Jagged Alliance series), takes on the role of chief executive at Loot Drop. Hall, who previously partnered with Romero and others to establish companies like Id Software and Ion Storm, serves as the studio head and game designer.

RockYou says this deal signals its commitment to invest in creative talent, as well as its ability to enable independent developers to “reach a broad audience with its publishing and distribution expertise”. The company currently reaches over 200 million monthly visitors with its social games and applications.

In the past several months, RockYou has made significant moves means to shift its focus more to social games, such as laying off employees working in non-game divisions, acquiring 3D social game engine developer TirNua, and last week purchasing British studio Playdemic (Gourmet Ranch).

“The social space is where the excitement and the players are at, hundreds of millions of them, and I’m excited to make another game on the platform,” says Romero. “RockYou’s support will drive Loot Drop’s first project forward. I believe social games have an incredible future, and we’ve barely explored their potential.” （Source：Gamasutra）