Zynga has announce a joint operation with Tencent to launch Zynga City. The Chinese version of CityVille marks on of the first international social games on Tencent’s Open Platform, with the additions of new Chinese decorations and architecture along with in-game events and competitions linked to Chinese holidays and new game mechanics including the ability to send street peddlers to their friend s cities.
As a social game developer, Zynga fully recognizes the value of Tencent’s Open Platform and their professional service capability, said Andy Tian, General Manager of Zynga China. CityVille is Zynga s largest and most popular game and Zynga is proud to partner with the leading open platform in China to bring the innovation and delight of the game to Chinese players. We are excited that a fully localized Zynga City will be introduced to the Chinese audience and look forward to enabling them to connect in a fun, harmonious way.
Tencent’s Open Platform has made a lot of progress after its launching one month ago, said Lin Songtao, General Manager of Tencent Open Platform. The launch of the new cross platform application center and integrated services such as brand-new cross-platform APP centers, Tencent s cloud service that uses APP console as a window, data statistical analysis, self-help advertising, virtual currency s payment capacity and gross settlement capability, are all bringing real value and strong support to the partners and developers of the Open Platform. It is the reason that we can operate such big games successfully in such a short time.
