{"id":119142,"date":"2020-10-09T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/371680"},"modified":"2020-10-09T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T19:45:00","slug":"kids-vs-zombies-dev-donut-lab-raises-1-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/09\/kids-vs-zombies-dev-donut-lab-raises-1-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids vs. Zombies dev Donut Lab raises $1.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia-based Donut Lab, creator of the in-development mobile game&nbsp;<em>Kids vs. Zombies<\/em>, has raised $1.6 million in funding,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/10\/09\/donut-lab-raises-1-6-million-for-kids-vs-zombies-mobile-game\/\">VentureBeat reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Game investment firm Level-Up out of Luxembourg led the round.&nbsp;<em>Kids vs. Zombies<\/em>&nbsp;is currently on Google Play in early access, and will eventually release on iOS, according to the report. The game adopts a free-to-play model, monetizing cosmetic virtual items and abilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the mainstream audience, we really wanted to make the game without a lot of violence,&#8221;&nbsp;Donut Lab cofounder Tim Raiter said. \u201cThey are fighting against mediocrity, boredom, and the adults who become the zombies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia-based Donut Lab, creator of the in-development mobile game&nbsp;Kids vs. Zombies, has raised $1.6 million in funding,&nbsp;VentureBeat reports. Game investment firm Level-Up out of Luxembourg led the round.&nbsp;Kids vs. Zombies&nbsp;is currently on Google Play in early access, and will eventually release on iOS, according to the report. The game adopts a free-to-play model, monetizing cosmetic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119142","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\/119142","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=119142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}