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google游戏Mark DeLoura在加盟四个月后以不适宜为由离职

发布时间:2010-08-26 11:03:26 Tags:,,

据venturebeat消息,谷歌游戏业务高管马克·德鲁拉(Mark DeLoura)已经离职,而他加盟谷歌仅仅4个月时间。

今年4月份,谷歌将索尼电脑娱乐美国公司的马克·德鲁拉招至麾下,出任谷歌游戏开发倡导者。当时德鲁拉表示:“我个人感觉,谷歌聘请一个人来专门关注游戏,这是谷歌承认游戏重要性正在日益增加的一个信号。”

mark  deloura

mark deloura

然而,德鲁拉在加盟谷歌仅仅4个月之后就匆匆离职。德鲁拉周三通过自己的博客对外宣布,他已经于周一从谷歌离职。他写道:“现在谷歌正发生着很多有趣的事情,而且我们很享受与那么多人共事的日子,然而这并不是最合适我的工作。”

这绝对是一条突然的消息,因为就在不久前的欧洲游戏者开发大会上,德鲁拉还向游戏开发人员首次介绍了Chrome Web Store网络商店。很显然,这个网络商店的的很大一部分内容将是游戏应用,而且当时德鲁拉在幻灯片中也展示了几款流行的游戏,例如《植物大战僵尸》。

在自己的博客中,德鲁拉表示,他非常看好未来基于浏览器运行应用的前景。关于游戏,德鲁拉表示自己希望将游戏纳入云计算领域,不过也表示游戏应当跨越平台的限制。德鲁拉表示,微软通过XNA和Silverlight项目已经在这方面取得了进步,而苹果也做得不错,随着Android NDK和Chrome Native客户端的发布,谷歌也终于意识到了跨平台游戏的重要性。

德鲁拉博客文章的最后说明,他在谷歌工作期间过于繁忙。德鲁拉表示,他对过去几个月在谷歌工作期间被他忽视的人表示抱歉,并表示会立即纠正这一错误。

今年7月份,有报道称谷歌向社交游戏开发商Zynga注资1亿美元,同时谷歌收购了一些小规模的游戏公司,然而谷歌CEO埃里克·施密特(Eric Schmidt)却表示,谷歌不会大规模进军游戏市场。

目前,谷歌尚未对德鲁拉离职做出回应。

Google has been acting like it’s going to move into the social gaming space for months now. But it’s not clear how serious we should take this effort by the search giant to move into new territory.

Today, Google’s games evangelist Mark DeLoura said that he has left the company after just four months on the job. In a blog post, DeLoura said, “This past Monday, I left Google. There are a lot of very interesting things going on at Google right now, and I enjoyed working with many of the people there, but it was not the perfect fit for me. I’m looking forward to my next adventure.”

DeLoura said one of the interesting things Google is doing is Native Client, which opens up the web so other languages can be used other than HTML/JS and Action Script. He also said he was proud of the coverage Google got for his talk about the Chrome Web Store. He also said he looks forward to the day where there are more games running in the cloud, rather than on PC clients, so that you can log into your game wherever you are. And he hopes that platform holders will make it easier for developers to create cross-platform games.

But DeLoura didn’t really have much to say about all of the other great things Google is doing for the game market. And perhaps that gives us a clue about why he left. Google is reportedly working on its own social network to compete with Facebook. For that, it needs to have good social games, and that is perhaps why it bought Slide and is preparing to invest $150 million in Zynga. But Google is far behind in the game space. DeLoura, a former Sony developer expert, brought the company some credibility in games. But now that he’s gone, so much for that.(source:venturebeat/tencent)


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