{"id":35113,"date":"2018-07-24T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/322818"},"modified":"2018-07-24T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T21:25:00","slug":"mobile-startup-knock-knock-raises-2m-in-funding-toward-developing-chat-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/mobile-startup-knock-knock-raises-2m-in-funding-toward-developing-chat-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile startup Knock Knock raises $2M in funding toward developing chat games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knock Knock, a gaming startup founded by Zynga, TinyCo, and EA alumni, announced today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding\u00a0towards developing\u00a0mobile chat games that are playable through messaging apps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a press release, the funding round was led by\u00a0Raine Ventures, with London Venture Partners (Supercell, Unity), Ludlow Ventures (Product Hunt), and Gregory Milken also\u00a0participating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Knock Knock won&#8217;t be focusing on building chat fiction (digital books presented as text messages), they&#8217;re designing key parts of gameplay around bots, like sending heroes on quests via a bot message interaction without having to open the game.<\/p>\n<p>Their goal revolves\u00a0around changing the concept of chat games by utilizing bots in new ways by adding group chat dynamics, messaging and chat bots into the game mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>The startup plans to publish\u00a0their first game for Facebook Messenger later in the\u00a0year, following with a\u00a0WeChat title in early 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knock Knock, a gaming startup founded by Zynga, TinyCo, and EA alumni, announced today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding\u00a0towards developing\u00a0mobile chat games that are playable through messaging apps.\u00a0 As detailed in a press release, the funding round was led by\u00a0Raine Ventures, with London Venture Partners (Supercell, Unity), Ludlow Ventures (Product Hunt), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35113","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\/35113","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=35113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}