The investments will be used in development of PvP games for mobile devices and the current project “Madworld”.
Carbonated Games was founded in 2015 by ex-EA, Zynga developer Travis Boatman, and five years after its founding the company has raised an $8.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, Golden Ventures, and Bitkraft Ventures, with additional participation from AH Cultural Leadership Fund and a variety of investors and advisors.
Our partner criteria has always been more than just purely financial. We look for people with deep industry experience who are willing to roll up their sleeves and dig in. We’re thrilled to have partners like that around the table who believe in our team and mission.
Travis Boatman, CEO of Carbonated Games
People are familiar with playing games like Call of Duty or Fortnite or PUBG, and they’re looking for those experiences, even on their mobile phones. One way we figured out to do this is by integrating AI into the platform and letting the player do fewer interactions.
Travis Boatman, CEO of Carbonated Games
Carbonated’s mission is to make hardcore PvP games for mobile devices using “AI gameplay”. To deal with the difficulty of controlling a complex game with a touchscreen, Carbonated is using AI and live-ops technology to make the game easier to play even with one hand. Its current project is Madworld, a post-apocalyptic territory control game built on Carbonated’s own live ops platform Carbyne and the Amazon Lumberyard engine.
Previously, Carbonated took over live ops and development for Glu Mobile’s Racing Rivals in 2017. That game was shut down in March of 2019.
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