EA, Disney, and Epic Games veterans’ game studio Playmint has raised $4 million in the seed round led by BITKRAFT Ventures with participation from 1kx, Cherry Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, and Play Ventures’ Play Future Fund.
The funding will now be used by Playmint to scale its world-class team of artists, game designers, and engineers to continue releasing new chapters of its game, The Crypt, every month.
Having said that, Playmint is on a mission that aims to create category-defining games for the Web3 era. This is also possible as the team consists of EA, Disney, and Epic Games veterans that have shipped games like Dungeon Keeper 2, Lego Star Wars Battles, and Fall Guys.
The venture-backed game development studio is based in Brighton, UK, and is founded by a team with decades of experience across the industry.
David Amor, the CEO of Playmint had this to say,
We are committed to creating real, web3 games, not web2.5, by leveraging blockchain technology to build games the industry has never experienced before. We may not know how they’ll work, what they’ll look like, or how players will interact with them, but one thing we do know is making a fun game is a necessity.
On the other hand, Nicolas Vereecke, an investor at BITKRAFT Ventures added,
We believe that putting game logic on-chain will usher in a new era of innovation in game design, marked by rapid experimentation through interoperability and composability. There are few teams in the industry that combine the proven ability to create fun games with a deep sense of curiosity and a willingness to do new, hard things. The games coming out of this new era will be nothing like the games that exist today and we are confident that Playmint will continue to experiment with new technologies and push boundaries to create the most engaging, immersive and fun games web3 has to offer.
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