Swedish startup Coherence invested $2.5 million. With these funds, he plans to create a cloud platform for online game development.
The funds raised will be used to expand the company’s staff and, possibly, to open new Coherence offices. The initial funding round was led by Firstminute Capital. Finnish SISU Game Ventures and investor Paul Heydon also invested in the startup. The latter invested in such large gaming companies as Supercell and Unity, writes VentureBeat.
By the way, Coherence has specialists from Unity along with ex-DICE and Playdead employees. Under the leadership of Dino Patti, they are developing a platform for creating stable and scalable virtual worlds based on a singleplayer.
The site this team is working on will have open source code. An editor with a set of plugins and visual tools is provided. It is also planned to synchronize Coherence with Unity and other engines. Ideally, all this will help studios turn singleplayer games into cooperative or even MMO. At the same time, all processes (synchronization, simulation, scaling and optimization) will be processed automatically in the cloud.
Coherence also promises that both AAA studios and small developers will be able to master the platform. Even if they have no experience in creating online games.
The site is planned to be launched in 2020. Testing will begin in the first months of the year.