Soba has raised $13.5 million for its web3 platform where users can “co-create games for any device” using a suite of no-code tools. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with participation from FTX Ventures. Other investors included Cherry Ventures, Point Nine Capital, and TQ Ventures. Soba was co-founded by Juha Paananen and Florian Odronitz. Juha Paananen was previously a co-founder at Nonstop Games, an HTML5 game company that was acquired by King.
The web3 platform is aimed at providing web3 creators and influencers with the necessary tools to build their own games. Soba’s hope is to build an inclusive virtual world, where users can “express their creativity through game creation”. In Soba, creators can make their own games by adding and configuring elements built by others or creating custom logic visually without the need to know any programming language. Soba allows creators to build various games, from platformers to shooters, in many different styles.
Soba is currently free of charge and runs on mobile, PC, and Mac, with other platforms coming in the future. The company stresses that accessibility is of high importance to them, therefore players will be able to access the full suite of game-creation tools on multiple devices.
