Zynga calls on vets from film and games to replenish its leadership bench

Two senior game designers have left social gaming publisher Zynga, but the mobile- and social-game publisher has hired a number of people in an ongoing effort to help improve its hit-making capacity.

Senior vice president of games Tim LeTourneau and Steve Parkis, the senior vice president of games, have left the company. Both worked on Zynga’s Ville franchise, which includes games such as FarmVille. They join Maytal Olsha, the Social Slots chief who also left in the last month, as we reported Sunday. Such executive departures have become common at the San Francisco company since Don Mattrick took over as chief executive in July 2013.