[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]
Palo Alto, Calif. – Nov. 8, 2012 –
Leading free-to-play community-based mobile MMO game developer,
Machine Zone, has tapped Sim Dietrich as Senior Technical Director
of Graphics Technologies. In his new role at Machine Zone, Dietrich
will head-up the client side of the platform team, helping to
deploy a faster and more scalable development cycle. Dietrich joins
Machine Zone from OnLive, where he managed the platform, UI,
engineering and game performance teams.
“Sim is a legend in the 3D graphics world and will be a
tremendous asset to Machine Zone,” said Gabriel Leydon, CEO
Machine Zone. “Adding Sim to our team will help us to evolve
our platform and create the most graphically advanced mobile MMO
games available.”
Dietrich has nearly 20 years of experience in software
engineering, game design and 3D graphics technologies at leading
companies such as OnLive, Composite Studios, Intel Corp and NVIDIA,
where he developed and evangelized real-time graphics techniques.
He is the inventor and co-inventor of several patented technologies
surrounding low-latency processing, video processing, shading
languages and anti-aliasing.
“Machine Zone's technology is charting new waters in the
mobile gaming space. I'm thrilled to help drive this
technology further with such a talented team,” Dietrich
said.
Machine Zone is a leader in mobile free-to-play community-based
titles that leverage truly mobile features of smartphones. Machine
Zone’s arsenal of games includes
iMob 2,
Original Gangstaz and
Global War, which have each reached the App Store’s
top free and top grossing charts. To date, the company
has seen more than 40 million downloads of its iPhone games
and is the recipient of the 2010 Crunchies Award (Techcrunch)
for Best Bootstrapped Startup.
To learn more about Machine Zone and its games please visit
http://www.machinezone.com/.
About Machine Zone
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Machine Zone, Inc. is a
leading free-to-play
, community-based massively multiplayer
mobile game developer. Machine Zone, founded as Addmired in 2008,
boasts more than 40 million downloads of its titles,
including
iMob,
Original Gangstaz,
Global War,
iMob 2,
Race or Die 2,
Jet Fighters II, among others. The company received the
2010 Crunchies Award (Techcrunch) for Best Bootstrapped
Startup. Machine Zone is backed by Anthos Capital, Baseline
Ventures and Menlo Ventures. For more information, visit
www.machinezone.com
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