{"id":115490,"date":"2020-07-16T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/366562"},"modified":"2020-07-16T22:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:09:00","slug":"mobile-dev-carbonated-raises-8-5-million-in-seed-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/16\/mobile-dev-carbonated-raises-8-5-million-in-seed-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile dev Carbonated raises $8.5 million in seed funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Carbonated has raised $8.5 million at the close of a seed funding round, money the California-based team plans to use to get its first project, an AI-driven squad-based shooter for mobile, off the ground.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The funding comes from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Bitkraft Ventures, and others,&nbsp;and will help the studio ramp up its hiring efforts and bring 20 more developers on board, remotely.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to that in-development mobile game, the Carbonated team notes in a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@travis_74472\/carbonated-raises-an-8-5m-4360ceec77b9\">Medium post<\/a> that it is also working on a live-ops tool it calls Carbyne that aims to allow it to quickly create, modify, and deliver in-game content.<br \/> &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Carbonated has raised $8.5 million at the close of a seed funding round, money the California-based team plans to use to get its first project, an AI-driven squad-based shooter for mobile, off the ground.&nbsp; The funding comes from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Bitkraft Ventures, and others,&nbsp;and will help the studio ramp up its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115490","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\/115490","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=115490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}