Random Games, a Boulder, CO-based videogaming company, raised $7.6M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Resolute Ventures and Asymmetric, with participation from IGNIA, 2 Punks Capital, ID345, Polygon and David Jones.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its team, begin work on its first Unioverse games and develop AAA-quality game assets freely available to the community.
Founded by industry veterans Tony Harman (Grand Theft Auto, Donkey Kong Country, Crackdown), Wyeth Ridgway (Pirates of the Caribbean, MLB and WWE2K), Random Games is a development studio advancing an entirely new concept in videogames and franchise entertainment through a combination of community empowerment and blockchain technology.
The studio is creating the Unioverse, a massive “community-owned franchise” that flips the script on the relationship between developer, gamer and fan. The Unioverse AAA-quality characters, artwork, models, music and more can be downloaded and used by anyone to make their own games, comic books, movies, lunchboxes, T-shirts – whatever they can imagine. Plus, creators can sell whatever they make and keep the money. Players will purchase an NFT character avatar, which is used to access and play Unioverse games. Because these avatars are NFTs, players can keep or sell them as they wish, and avatars will be interoperable across games in the Unioverse.
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20/09/2022