$8.2 million raised to help get into the Web3 business.
March 18, 2022
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]
Author: Trailblazer Games
Singapore, March 17, 2022 – Startup Trailblazer Games has closed an $8.2M seed round led by Makers Fund, including Play Ventures, Fabric Ventures, and a roster of prominent industry leaders in gaming and blockchain. Trailblazer is leading the evolution of games built natively for blockchain, by putting fun at the core of truly scalable economies. They are currently developing a new IP, Eternal Dragons™, a multi-chapter epic about the long-lost Eternal Dragons™.
The founding team consists of three serial entrepreneurs and veteran gaming industry leaders from the likes of King, EA and Microsoft, who have experience in building large-scale and sustainable free-to-play economies. They are united by a shared passion for creating engaging and entertaining gaming experiences. Trailblazer has since added talent with experience from working with Sorare, Wooga, Snowprint and other high profile studios to its team.
“We are on a mission to make games more fun and meaningful for our community by designing and producing high-quality games that natively embrace Web3 principles and technology" says Trailblazer CEO and co-founder Alex Arias. "Through raising this round with our partners, we can put more investments towards building our first franchise and the technology stack needed to deliver a seamless player and blockchain investor experience. This way, our players can become entrepreneurs in a new world full of opportunity - to play and prosper.”
The team's experience spans the design and production of award-winning games and franchises like SimCity and Candy Crush – which touch billions of hearts across multiple platforms – but also the building of platforms and tools for growth and engagement powered by data and AI, as well as extensive blockchain development.
“We are innovating on user acquisition, engagement and retention with our growth platform that leverages data, blockchain and AI to make the experience smooth for both crypto- and non crypto-aware users,” says Bertrand Lamarque, CTO and co-founder. “Through extending the NFT-protocol we’re creating a deeper connection with players by letting them own a part of the game, whose evolution is stored as an immutable record.”
The road map contains four chapters that are to be developed over the next couple of years, with the first two being a dragon breeding game and an auto chess battler. The dragon NFTs will also be useful in later chapters of this epic story. Alongside developing these games, Trailblazer is creating a platform that will power a new global economy where guilds can efficiently access capital, trade assets, and acquire talent in order to compete, grow, and succeed.
Andreas Risberg, CPO and co-founder, expands: “In order to achieve our daring goals, we are laser-focused on creating fun game play with mass market potential, packaged in an exciting fantasy universe of dragons and magic where anything is possible and the players write the actual history – both inside and outside the game world. We call this blockchain powered immutable player record the Eternal Book.”
Trailblazer's mission is to design and build games that fairly distribute the value created between community, developers, and investors, creating real-life value through true ownership of assets and a distributed revenue share.
Andrew Willson, who leads Web3 gaming investments at Makers Fund said, “Makers Fund is privileged to partner with Alex, Andreas, and Bertrand. They are an exceptional founding team of experienced leaders from the gaming industry with a deep and nuanced perspective on the potential of Web3 for games. I am inspired by their approach leveraging Web3 technology and economics to create fun games that can reach a mass audience and enrich the lives of their players.”
The list of angel investors include Aleksander Larsen, Chris Lee, Oliver Löffler, Santiago Santos, Itamar Lesuisse and Sagi Shorrer, all successful entrepreneurs in Web2, Web3 and gaming.
Trailblazer’s team is fully distributed and remote, allowing them to access the best talent available, as well as providing a multitude of diverse perspectives in the development process. The funds will be used to extend their partnerships and hire more talent to expand their team as they execute on Trailblazer’s ambitious roadmap and develop their first IP: Eternal Dragons™.
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