Mark Skaggs, speaking at GamesBeat 2015.
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FarmVille co-creator Mark Skaggs leaves India’s Moonfrog Labs after 2 years

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Mark Skaggs, co-creator of FarmVille, surprised everyone in 2015 when he left Zynga and took a job as a game designer at India’s Moonfrog Labs. He stayed for two years and helped publish two major games, and he is announcing today that he is leaving to return to the U.S. and spend more time with his family.

Skaggs helped ship Bahubali: The Game, based on a major Indian film from director S.S. Rajamouli; and Alia Bhatt: Star Life, a celebrity game. The Bahubali game had more than 10 million downloads.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.