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Pragma is a back-end toolkit for gaming companies, so game developers can focus on games

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These days, most of the games developed need to be social, multi-platform and extensible, but there are only a few developers with the expertise to bring those toolsets to the profusion of new games that crop up every year. Games are taking five to 10 years to launch out of beta,” Chen said. . The company raised $4.2

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996). Rick has led and sits on the board of 4 FirstMark portfolio companies, including Clickable, Weplay, Live Gamer and Riot Games. . .