{"id":98574,"date":"2019-08-15T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/348858"},"modified":"2019-08-15T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T20:40:00","slug":"klang-secures-22-3-million-in-funding-for-spatialos-powered-mmo-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/15\/klang-secures-22-3-million-in-funding-for-spatialos-powered-mmo-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Klang secures $22.3 million in funding for SpatialOS-powered MMO Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klang, the developer working on the colony&nbsp;simulation game <em>Seed<\/em>, has raised an addition $22.3 million for the game\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>This $22.33 million investment was led by Novator Partners, and saw contributions from a handful of others, including Lego\u2019s Lego Ventures group. With this latest round of funding in the bag, Klang has now raised a total of $37.42 million for the game by <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/08\/15\/klang-raises-22-3-million-for-mmo-space-colony-simulation-seed\/\">VentureBeat<\/a>\u2019s math.<\/p>\n<p>The in-development game notably uses Improbable&#8217;s&nbsp;SpatialOS cloud computing tech to power its in-game worlds, tech that is advertised as a way for devs to create persistent, online worlds without a huge computational load. A handful of studios have signed on to use SpatialOS in their own projects to date, but just recently, seemingly with the exception of Klang, a few have come across hard times.<\/p>\n<p>In just the last few months, Bossa Studios has shut down its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/343566\/Bossa_shutting_down_Worlds_Adrift_says_game_is_no_longer_commercially_viable.php\">early access MMO title <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/343566\/Bossa_shutting_down_Worlds_Adrift_says_game_is_no_longer_commercially_viable.php\">World Adrift<\/a>,<\/em> <em>Mavericks: Proving Grounds<\/em> developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/347709\/Automation_enters_administration_and_cancels_Mavericks_Proving_Grounds.php\">Automation Games has entered administration<\/a> and canceled the project, and Spilt Milk Studios has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/348529\/Spilt_Milk_Studios_cancels_upcoming_scifi_MMO_Lazarus.php\">canceled its upcoming MMO game <em>Lazarus<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klang, the developer working on the colony&nbsp;simulation game Seed, has raised an addition $22.3 million for the game\u2019s development. This $22.33 million investment was led by Novator Partners, and saw contributions from a handful of others, including Lego\u2019s Lego Ventures group. With this latest round of funding in the bag, Klang has now raised a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98574","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\/98574","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=98574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}