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Ready Player Me Launches Avatar API To Improve Interoperability for Cross-Game Avatars

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 22:50:29 +0000

Ready Player Me recently announced it had closed a $56 million Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) Games Fund One. Other notable investors included David Baszucki (co-founder of Roblox), Justin Kan (co-founder of Twitch), Sebastian Knutsson & Riccardo Zacconi (co-founders of King), and more.

Ready Player Me is described as a “cross-game metaverse avatar platform that allows users to explore virtual worlds with one consistent identity.” To date, Ready Player Me has partnerships with more than 3,000 game and app companies using its avatars.

The 3,000 apps across both web2 and web3 include the likes of VRChat, Spatial, Somnium Space, RTFKT, and many more. The company also already works with individual creators and fashion brands such as Adidas, New Balance, Dior, Pull&Bear, and Warner Brothers (Dune movie outfits) to enable cross-game avatar assets across the metaverse.

Ready Player Me has now just launched its Avatar API that improves interoperability for cross-game avatars. The aim is to let users take their avatars with them wherever they go in the metaverse.

Ready Player Me Has Announced $56 Million Series B Funding Round

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:43:13 +0000

Ready Player Me just announced it has closed a $56 million Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) Games Fund One. Other notable investors include David Baszucki (co-founder of Roblox), Justin Kan (co-founder of Twitch), Sebastian Knutsson & Riccardo Zacconi (co-founders of King), and more.

Clockwork Labs Has Just Raised $22 Million For Their Massive MMORPG BitCraft

admin — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:30:53 +0000

Clockwork Labs was founded in 2019. The company has previously raised $4.3 million in August of 2021 from Supercell, CCP Games CEO Hilmar Petursson, and Unity co-founder David Helgason. The company headquarters are in San Francisco, but the studio operates remotely, with employees all over the world.

Clockwork Labs just announced on Twitter that they have raised an impressive $22 million in funds. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with participation from David Baszucki, Roblox founder and CEO, as a private investor. The funds will go towards developing Clockwork Labs’ community sandbox MMORPG, BitCraft, alongside a new unannounced database technology that powers the game.

BitCraft was revealed in September of last year. The game is described as a sandbox MMORPG that encourages many different play styles ranging from farming, hunting, and crafting to city-building and social strategy, rather than emphasizing combat alone. The game incorporates elements of sub-genres such as survival games, sandbox games, role-playing games, city builders, and strategy games.