{"id":100712,"date":"2019-09-24T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/351043"},"modified":"2019-09-24T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:50:00","slug":"mtg-invests-250000-in-emotional-health-aid-mightier-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/24\/mtg-invests-250000-in-emotional-health-aid-mightier-games\/","title":{"rendered":"MTG invests $250,000 in emotional health aid Mightier Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>The typically esports-focused game company MTG&nbsp;has invested $250,000 from its venture capital fund&nbsp;into Mightier Games, a game-driven program that aims to help kids with ADHD, anxiety, and anger issues improve emotional regulation skills.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Mightier has raised $10.1 million for the program, including&nbsp;$6.2 million from a Series A funding round earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Mightier Games is a collection of different titles, all developed to help kids age 6 to 14 develop stronger emotional regulation skills. Right now, it includes a growing library of 25 games both developed and clinically tested through a partnership with Boston Children\u2019s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>Through the investment, MTG notes that the partnership potentially sets Mightier up to work with more game developers to populate its library; MTG itself has financial ties to many&nbsp;notable studios, including several through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/300300\/Swedish_entertainment_giant_MTG_buys_Kongregate_for_55M.php\">ownership of the web game platform&nbsp;Kongregate<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: The typically esports-focused game company MTG&nbsp;has invested $250,000 from its venture capital fund&nbsp;into Mightier Games, a game-driven program that aims to help kids with ADHD, anxiety, and anger issues improve emotional regulation skills. Overall, Mightier has raised $10.1 million for the program, including&nbsp;$6.2 million from a Series A funding round earlier this summer. Mightier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}