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Jan 31, 2012 · Michael Luxton, Zynga's former CTO and co-founder, is working on new products. Flickr / graymalkn. Michael "Lux" Luxton joined as one of the company's first chief technology officers. That...
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Michael Luxton is the Co-Founder of Zynga.
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May 29, 2012 · In this excerpt, reprinted with permission, Tice tells the inside story of how entrepreneur Mark Pincus and his business partners turned an idea into the social gaming powerhouse Zynga.]
- What Is Farmville?
- What Happened to Farmville?
- Why Was Farmville Shut Down?
FarmVille, developed by Zynga, is a social network game that requires players to manage a virtual farm. Users can engage in a variety of activities such as taking care of farm animals and plants or creating buildings and decorating them. The game is centred around planting and harvesting vegetables and trees for which users earn coins. Each harvest...
FarmVille was created by game development studio Zynga, which in turn was founded in April 2007 by Mark Pincus, Justin Waldron, Eric Schiermeyer, Michael Luxton, and Steve Schoettler. Zynga itself was the brainchild of Pincus who had started multiple companies before. In 1997, he co-founded Support.com, which he led to an IPO in July 2000. In the f...
FarmVille was shut down on December 31st, 2020 after Adobe decided to sunset its Flash technology. As previously stated, the overwhelming majority of players accessed the game via Facebook, which had based its gaming ecosystem on Flash. Adobe itself decided to terminate its Flash software because other open-source standards such as HTML 5 and CSS 3...
Zynga was founded in April 2007 by Mark Pincus, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Michael Luxton, Steve Schoettler, and Andrew Trader under the name Presidio Media. The company name changed to Zynga in July 2007. Zynga was named after Pincus' American bulldog "Zinga", and uses an image of a bulldog as its logo.
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Michael Luxton joined eUniverse as a senior developer three months after Eric founded the company. However, Michael worked for eUniverse for less than a year before moving to NetApp, where he was a NetCache and WAFL engineer for nearly 7 years.
