Ngmoco今日发布消息，正式收购了iphone游戏开发商Stumptown~去年9月他们曾合作开发过一款苹果应用游戏Touch Pets Dogs（咪洽宠物狗），该游戏一直雄踞应用商店免费版排行榜的前列，下载量超过500万次~并购条款并没有公开，但是Stumptown依然会保持自己独立的品牌、名称和坚持独立运作。

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Ngmoco announced today that they’ve acquired fellow iPhone developer Stumptown Game Machine, which developed Touch Pets Dogs exclusively for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch in collaboration with Ngmoco in November 2009. The game immediately topped the free app charts on the App Store upon release and has been downloaded more than five million times.

Financial terms were not disclosed, but Stumptown Game Machine will retain its own name, brand and base of operations in Portland, Oregon. See Industry Gamers for more. Ngmoco — funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Norwest Venture Partners, Institutional Venture Partners and Maples Investments — has acquired a number of iPhone game developers in its bid to become the top maker of mobile games on Apple platforms.

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Stumptown介绍

目前来讲，Stumptown还不算一个规模公司。目前公司团队介绍上已经标注了相关的ngmoco信息。Stumptown又安德鲁-斯特恩创建，位于俄勒冈的波特兰市。

Stumptown Game Machine is a small, passionate team  of game developers based in Portland, Oregon, founded by Andrew Stern.

We build iPhone games combining 3D characters, artificial intelligence and social networking.

We’re always looking for experienced, talented game developers, such as engineers, animators and artists. Please send resumes to jobs at stumptowngamemachine dot com.