MaxPlay hires Unity’s John Goodale

Unity Technologies’ John Goodale has joined cloud-based development tools creator MaxPlay.

He leaves his position as VP of Asia, having been instrumental in the engine’s entry into Eastern markets. He will play a similar role at MaxPlay, helping to build a worldwide sales team and establishing Asian operations for the firm, according to GamesIndustry.

MaxPlay is the company behind a new collaborative development tool it claims will become "Google Docs for devs".

"We’re thrilled to have John join the team," said CEO Sinjin Bain. "His deep technology experience and expertise is unparalleled and heavily underscored by a proven track record of success. John has successfully built multiple game engine sales organisations from the ground up and brings unique strengths that will help us succeed in a rapidly expanding and evolving game development landscape.

"We have assembled one of the most talented and diversified teams in the industry combining world class gaming experience with enterprise software expertise. This team has made a lot of very successful games, tools and services and are passionate about helping game creators."