Zynga buys iphone game development tool Cocos2d

Beijing time May 10 morning news, social game developer Zynga announced in Monday that the company has acquired the iphone game Development Framework tool two key developers. According to the agreement, Argentines Ricardo Quesada (Ricardo Quesada) and Chileans Ronaldo Avarca (Rolando Abarca), the two developers will work for the Zynga San Francisco company.　　Zynga has been making a number of small acquisitions recently and has completed 13 acquisitions in the past 12 months. Cocos2d is used by many iphone apps, including major gaming companies such as Atari, the Southern Dream House, Gamevil and Zynga to use this Open-source code to develop game products on devices such as iphones, ipod Touch, Macs, and so on.　　Quesada and Avarca will continue to support and develop cocos2d in Zynga to support the company's iphone gaming offerings. The two developers previously worked for the iOS gaming developer Sapus Media, and Zynga acquired Sapus media-specific assets in the deal.　　Previously Quesada and Avarca and other people jointly developed cocos2d, and for mobile game developers to provide a professional game development tools. Zynga says it will not buy cocos2d-iphone.org, the Cocos2d technology community website. Cadir Lee, Cadel Li Hu of Zynga's chief technology officer, said Quesada and Avarca were key developers of Cocos2d, who could help Zynga to better manage its technology. "We will be funding them to continue to develop platforms that will become Zynga's development tools to ensure that we are better able to leverage these platforms," he said.　　"The cocos2d-iphone.org website will continue to be managed independently by Avarca and other cocos2d managers. This year, Zynga has completed acquisitions including game developer Wonderland, music game developer Jamlegend, network card gaming service provider Marketzero, game developer Floodgate, social browser flock, And New York's social game developer Area/code, among many businesses. (linjing)