Mark DeLoura was brought on as the developer advocate for Google back in April. However, he has revealed that he is leaving his position after a few short months; despite this, he feels upbeat about his position.

“This past Monday, I left Google,” wrote DeLoura. “There are a lot of very interesting things going on at Google right now, and I enjoyed working with many of the people there, but it was not the perfect fit for me. I’m looking forward to my next adventure.”

He’s still very excited about future technologies that Google will be working on. DeLoura cited Native Client and Chrome Web Store as things in particular to look out for.

“For game developers, I’m looking forward to the day where we see more games running in the cloud, like Farmville and World of Warcraft do now, and it is easy for developers to create clients on multiple platforms so I can bring my game with me no matter where I am. As game developers we ve talked about the idea of making multiple-platform game access simpler for a long time trans-platform play where the experiences may be different, as opposed to cross-platform play where the experiences are the same and it should be easier for developers to create clients for web, mobile and desktop without needing to write them in completely different languages or using vastly different SDKs,” DeLoura described. “The increasing use of web services can abstract away a lot of the need for platform-specific SDK features, but there s still a lot of work to do all around. Games aren’t getting cheaper to make, that’s for sure, and it s important that technically complex features are still easily available to independent developers working alone.”

“Game engines and middleware are only getting better and better, and make increasing sense to use to bridge all these gaps. But the costs can be difficult to bear for indies, and there are also the different market systems, social graphs, and platform tech requirements to deal with it s clear there are still a lot of problems for the game industry to solve to make things easier for small developers. Which is good, because we all don t like being bored,” he joked.

Source: Satori.org