The authors of the unsuccessful Midnight Star mobile shooter received an investment of $1.4 million for a new project – the midcore action role-playing Exiles of Embermark.
Investment companies Chicago Ventures, Math Ventures, Listen Ventures, Third Wave Digital together with business angels Gregory Milken, Chris Williams and Rob Goldberg invested $1.4 million in the mobile role-playing project Exiles of Embermark.
The root gameplay of the game is a PvP combat system. It works something like this: the heroes of two players stand opposite each other. Then the actions take place in two stages. In the first, players simultaneously choose how their heroes will lead them on the battlefield, in the second, the heroes perform the actions chosen by the players.
Outside of the battle, the player forms a list of possible actions of his hero, dresses him, opens chests with loot, and so on.
The game is being developed by a small studio Gunslinger Studios. Its co-founder and CEO is Tim Harris, President and founder of Industrial Toys. All eight employees of the studio also moved to it from Industrial Toys.
The latter is known for the Midnight Star mobile action game, which raised $ 5 million in investments, but failed to sell. The maximum position in the overall cash top in the American App Store is 579. But it was a short-lived peak. The continuation did not achieve this either: the top indicator of Midnight Star Renegade in the game box office top is 1183 position.
Tim Harris, in an interview with VentureBeat, assures that the separation of the company occurred solely because of the projects. They say Industrial Toys is working on hardcore shooters, and Gunslinger is working on midcore titles: “We have different products and different profiles, so it made sense to separate one team from another.”
The game Exiles of Embermark, developed on the Unreal Engine, should be available in the summer of 2017.
Source: VentureBeat, App Annie