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Zynga Loses Brian Reynolds, Chief Designer

Zynga has lost not only one of its co-founders, but a chief designer as well.
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Published: Jan 30, 2013 10:22 am

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After four years, Brian Reynolds is finally calling it quits with Zynga, a popular social developer known for games such as Words with Friends and Farmville. Reynolds founded the Baltimore office of Zynga, which released Frontierville in 2010.

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Before Zynga, Reynolds was a founder of Civ developer studio Firaxis Games and worked there until 1999.

Zynga now faces its rather rough-looking future short one great designer. After an insane round of layoffs, the company is now seated with a high-profile lawsuit from EA–who claims that the Ville, a popular Zynga game, is simply a clone of The Sims Social, EA’s even more popular Facebook game.

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