The newly raised funds will be used to grow the team and bring their first product, Super Battle League, to market.
The best games are built by small, passionate, talent-rich, multi-disciplinary teams that are open to and quick to react to player feedback.
Hanft-Murphy, Lightfox CEO
Lightfox Games, a Seattle-based mobile games developer and publisher has announced a seed round investment of $3.3M led by March Gaming, with participation from Hiro Capital and 1Up Ventures. Co-founded by games industry veterans Ryan Hanft-Murphy, Jordan Arnold, Rex Downham and Tony Tewes, the team brings a wealth of experience from King, Zynga, EA, and Disney. The Lightfox founding team worked together at Z2, a Seattle mobile gaming studio acquired by King.
We believe there is huge demand for compelling synchronous, real-time competitive experience on mobile, just as there is on pc and console. However, the market is currently underserved with few offerings designed for short session mobile play; we believe the Lightfox offering captures incredibly compelling mechanics and gameplay typically found only in much longer session core platform games.
Gregory Milken, Founder and Managing Partner at March Capital
Super Battle League is an innovative 3v3 real-time mixed PvE and PvP game where two teams race to see who can beat the boss first. To date, mobile midcore games have struggled with attracting and retaining a wider casual audience. Real-time multiplayer games like Brawl Stars and ‘battle royale’ games have been successful in offering midcore players a competitive outlet on mobile but haven’t drawn in a more casual audience. Lightfox Games believes they can capitalize on this underserved part of the market and expand the genre.
Another angle of exploration for the company is the rapidly growing esports and mobile focused content creation scene. Few mobile only or mobile first games have yet to reach or sustain the heights on Twitch or YouTube that console and PC games have.
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