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Ngmoco
Ngmoco, LLC (stylized as ngmoco) was an American-based publisher of video games for the iOS and Android platforms, and a subsidiary of DeNA Co., Ltd. The company was founded by former Electronic Arts executive Neil Young in July 2008. Since its founding, ngmoco has had more than seven million combined game installs. Venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Norwest Venture Partners, among others, have financed the company with a combined total of US$40.6 million. The company is most well known for their publishing of the ''Rolando'' game series and '' Eliminate Pro''. History In June 2008, Electronic Arts Games label president Frank Gibeau announced to the media that executive Neil Young was leaving the company to form a company of his own. Young had managed Maxis, EA Los Angeles, and EA's Blueprint division. The next week, Young announced that the company, co-founded by Bob Stevenson, Alan Yu and Joe Keene, would be named "ngmoco" (short for "Next Generation M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plus+
Plus+ was a social networking, game discovery and multiplayer platform launched by Ngmoco in June 2009. It was similar to Xbox Network, allowing users to interact with other players while playing. The Plus+ Network had approximately 14 million registered users in October 2010. On March 31, 2013, Plus+ servers were shut down along with the games that were supported. Games The following is a list of games that have been published by Ngmoco and therefore support Plus+: *''Charadium'' (2010) - A Pictionary style game. *''Dr. Awesome'' (2008) *''Dropship'' (2009) *'' Eliminate Pro'' (2009) - A free online-multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) Quake-style death match game by Ngmoco. Also includes various add-ons which give free power cells. *''Eliminate CO-OP'' (2010) - A free extension to Eliminate Pro which enables to play co-operative 2-player matches against AI Robots in any Eliminate Pro version. *'' GodFinger'' (2010) *'' MazeFinger'' (2008) *''Rolando'' (2008) - A game simil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliminate Pro
''Eliminate Pro'' was a first-person shooter developed for iOS by Ngmoco. Ngmoco has stopped development on it, and in May 2012 shut off the login/game servers and removed it from the Apple App Store. ''Eliminate'' was based on the open-source Quake 3 engine. Gameplay The player moves their character by moving the virtual joystick at the bottom left of the screen, while double-tapping and holding this button down will activate rapid fire. They shoot by pressing the bottom right of the screen. Zooming can be achieved by hitting the center cross hairs (this can be disabled in Options). The character jumps when the player presses the bottom of the screen. The player can switch weapons by hitting the top right of the screen. Only two weapons at maximum can be used in one match. ''Eliminate'' uses a capacity-limited freemium model. Although all features are unlocked when the game is first downloaded, players cannot earn credits for their wins without energized suits. A suit can have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolando (video Game)
''Rolando'' is a Puzzle video game, puzzle-Adventure game, adventure video game developed by studio HandCircus and published by Ngmoco. It was released for iOS on December 18, 2008, and uses the Box2D game engine. ''Rolando''s gameplay revolves around navigation of "Rolandos", small ball-like creatures, throughout a fictional world known as "Rolandoland". ''Rolando'' has received generally positive reviews. A sequel, ''Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid'', was released in 2009. A third game was announced and later cancelled. After being unplayable on newer devices since 2017, ''Rolando'' was later re-released in the form of a remake, ''Rolando: Royal Edition'', on April 3, 2019. A new remake was released under the title ''Rolando Deluxe'' on Steam on 17 April 202 Story The goal of the game is to save Rolandoland from an invasion of little shadow creatures. The inhabitants of Rolandoland are the Rolandos, which are little ball-shaped creatures. Rolandos must be directed to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bing Gordon
William "Bing" Gordon is a video game executive and technology venture capitalist. He served ten years as Chief Creative Officer of video game publisher and developer Electronic Arts (EA) prior to his current partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). He was a founding director of Audible.com and has served on several high-profile Boards of Directors including Amazon, Ngmoco, Duolingo, and Zynga. He designed the video games '' Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri'', '' Sid Meier's SimGolf'' and '' The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth''. Career Gordon graduated from Cranbrook School in 1968. He studied drama and literature and earned a BA from Yale University. He moved to the Bay Area where he received an MBA from Stanford in 1978 after acting for a period in New York City. After working as an account executive at the advertising firm Ogilvy and Mather, Gordon joined EA in 1982 while it was an early-stage start-up, working as a one-person marketing depa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Jeffery
Simon Jeffery is the chief publishing officer of ngmoco's Plus+ Publishing group. Similar to EA Publishing Partners group, Plus+ Publishing is a combined technology, App Store publishing and custom support play for iPhone and iPod touch developers. It will launch its first products with the rollout of the 3.0 operating system for those devices. Prior to this, Jeffery was the president of Sega of America from 2004 to 2009. He was president of LucasArts between 2000 and 2003, and a director at the company for three years beforehand. Prior to joining LucasArts, Jeffery worked in a number of marketing, business and development roles for Virgin Interactive and Electronic Arts. At Sega, Jeffery plans to recruit Western development houses to work with Japanese Sega IP and strengthening Sega's game production in the West in general. At E3 2008 Jeffery told Sega fans there is not going to be a new console from Sega, and no current plans to develop a Shenmue 3. This kills off hope of a Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MazeFinger
''MazeFinger'' is a game developed and published by ngmoco for the iOS platform. It is available for download on the iPhone and iPod Touch on the App Store or iTunes. Gameplay In ''MazeFinger'', players have to complete mazes by dragging their finger along the path of the maze without touching the sides, slowing the player down. Each level is composed of 5 different mazes and these 5 mazes have to be completed before the energy bar runs out and the game is over. There are 200 levels with over 1000 unique mazes. As players progress through harder mazes, they increase in difficulty. There are traps, blockers and energy pickups in some mazes. Players can also send challenges to friends and also compete on the |
IFund
The iFund is a US$200 million capital fund. Developers may enter into equity deals for the creation of applications, services, and components for Apple Inc.'s iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad platform. It is being offered and managed by venture capital company Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB). The iFund was announced by KPCB partner John Doerr at the same time as the iPhone OS SDK, at Apple's iPhone Roadmap event on March 6, 2008 in Cupertino, California. The iFund is managed by KPCB partner Matt Murphy in collaboration with partners Chi-Hua Chien, John Doerr, Bill Joy, Randy Komisar, Ellen Pao, and Ted Schlein. Apple provides KPCB with market insight and support. On March 31, 2010 KPCB announced the fund has been doubled. On September 15, 2008, KPCB launched a blog to share perspectives on the iFund. In December 2008 the confidential iFund application data was accidentally published on the web by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ former hosting provider, Meteora Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidiary company. Unlike regional branches or divisions, subsidiaries are considered to be distinct entities from their parent companies; they are required to follow the laws of where they are incorporated, and they maintain their own executive leadership. Two or more subsidiaries primarily controlled by same entity/group are considered to be sister companies of each other. Subsidiaries are a common feature of modern business, and most multinational corporations organize their operations via the creation and purchase of subsidiary companies. Examples of holding companies are Berkshire Hathaway, Jefferies Financial Group, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Citigroup, which have subsidiaries involved in many different Industry (e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Gibeau
Frank, FRANK, or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a Germanic people in late Roman times * Franks, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Aargau frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institutional Venture Partners
Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) is a US-based venture capital firm focused on fast-growing technology companies. IVP was founded in 1980, as one of the first venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. History Reid W. Dennis, the founder of Institutional Venture Partners, began his venture investment career in 1952, while an analyst with the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. He began by making an individual investment into Ampex, a technology company that developed audio tape products. He also developed an informal network of screened individual investors (now called angel investors). In 1974, Dennis secured a $5 million commitment from American Express and formed Institutional Venture Associates. The new firm then raised $19 million from six insurance companies for its first fund. That figure represented nearly half of all the capital raised in the United States that year by private venture capital partnerships. IVA's assets under management grew to $180 million by the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facebook
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age requirement is 14 years. , Facebook claimed almost 3.07 billion monthly active users worldwide. , Facebook ranked as the List of most-visited websites, third-most-visited website in the world, with 23% of its traffic coming from the United States. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. Facebook can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LucasArts
Lucasfilm Games (known as LucasArts between 1990 and 2021) is an American video game brand licensing, licensor, former video game developer and video game publisher, publisher, and a subsidiary of Lucasfilm. It was founded in May 1982 by George Lucas as a video game development group alongside his film company; as part of a larger 1990 reorganization of the Lucasfilm divisions, the video game development division was grouped and rebranded as part of LucasArts. LucasArts became known for LucasArts adventure games, its line of adventure games based on its SCUMM engine in the 1990s, including ''Maniac Mansion'', the ''Monkey Island'' series, and several ''Indiana Jones'' titles. A number of influential game developers were alumni of LucasArts from this period, including Brian Moriarty, Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert, and Dave Grossman (game developer), Dave Grossman. Later, as Lucasfilm regained control over its licensing over the ''Star Wars'' franchise, LucasArts produced numerous action ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
