He was the lead game designer at Funzio, which was later acquired by Gree for $210 million. Alagna was president and chief technology officer and oversaw multibillion-dollar franchises such as Game of War: Fire Age, Mobile Strike, and Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire.Д¬hao, president, has also been in games for more than 20 years as an engineer, game designer, and producer for PC, mobile, and console. VeteransДЄlagna, who is CEO, had roots in Machine Zone and Gree, and he has worked for more than 20 years in technical roles. On the other hand, a lot of talented people didnвЂ™t get a chance to get funding in the past, and theyвЂ™re now benefiting.Д¬ore Loop has been able to build up to 15 people.В Chao thinks the team may add another 10 people over the next six months. So much activity has come from gamingвЂ™s pandemic boom that I suspect weвЂ™ll start seeing shortages of game developers. In the first nine months of 2021, the money pouring into games surpassed $71 billion for investments, acquisitions, and public offerings, according to Drake Star Partners. Times are good for game startups created by veterans. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded. We think it can work and it does feel like adds a lot to the game. вЂњBlockchain is becoming more and more popular, and once we sat down and started to do the design of how it actually fits into the game, we convinced ourselves this looks pretty exciting.

вЂњVincenzo kept asking me if we wanted to add blockchain to it, and we decided to do it,вЂќ said Chao in an interview with GamesBeat. Their MMO will have a player-driven economy, a dynamic changing world, and some blockchain components as well.ДЄnd that focus on blockchain is one reason the company has been able to raise money from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which led the round, and additional investors Galaxy Digital, Initial Capital, Dune ventures, 1up Ventures, and Sisu Game Ventures. Since then, that part of the industry has exploded.

They fired up Core Loop and raised $2.4 million, but they didnвЂ™t talk about the blockchain part at the time. The company was started last year by mobile game veterans Vincenzo Alagna and Dan Chao. New game studio Core Loop has raised $12 million to develop a sandbox massively multiplayer online game using blockchain technology. Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10.

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