Netspeak Games raises $12M for cute mobile game Sunshine Days
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Netspeak Games has raised $12 million to launch its first mobile game, a cute social title called Sunshine Days.
Netspeak was founded in 2019 to build worlds that people want to spend time in. It is focused on creating social spaces where friendship, collaboration and support are the foundations for cohabitation. Sunshine Days is being built for iOS and Android.
Lakestar and Project A led the round, with participation from Makers Fund, and additional support from notable game leaders including Hilmar Veigar Pétursson (CCP), Phil Mansel (Jagex), and Catherine Chew (Kepler Interactive).
Sunshine Days is the company’s first title and it is representative of the company’s mission. With a multiplayer and mobile first approach, Netspeak has been heads down working on this first title since the middle of 2020.
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The founders all met at Improbable and had an awesome time working together on some groundbreaking technology.
“We worked closely with most of the major multiplayer game studios and we learned a lot about the problems they face – both technically and culturally,” said Callum Brighting, CEO of Netspeak Games, in an email to GamesBeat. “After we’d seen the same issues come up time and time again, we decided it was our time to implement our own solution and build a really wonderful place to work together.”
This new funding round brings the total raised to date by Netspeak to $16 million, including
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