Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games

Re:Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Go... by traskjd on Saturday July 10, 2010 @09:23PM (#1504704)

Exactly right.

I present on game development to local user groups in New Zealand and I always get a good response when citing "It's fun to write games - wouldn't you much rather be writing a class called SuperLaserWeapon than MembershipIdentityProvider" :-)

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Re:Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Go... by cageface on Saturday July 10, 2010 @10:06PM (#1504752)

I'd never go back to the game industry. Low pay, long hours, and a pervasively juvenile mentality that just keeps getting more annoying with every birthday after 17.

If you like doing bare-metal high performance coding it's one of your best chances to test your skills though, unless you're doing lolgames.

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Re:Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Go... by FlemishBeeCycle on Saturday July 10, 2010 @10:19PM (#1504773)

I hadn't heard of the term "lolgames" before, it is quite apt.

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Re:Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Go... by bpm140 on Saturday July 10, 2010 @10:04PM (#1504750)

Maybe we should just rename the "MembershipIdentityProvider" method to "SuperLaserWeapon"?

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Re:Google Secretly Invested In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Go... by MartinCron on Sunday July 11, 2010 @01:08AM (#1505000)

I haven't gone into SuperLaserWeapon territory, but I try to have a little (appropriate) fun with naming.

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