How is Artie transforming mobile gaming. What makes Artie’s approach unique in the industry. Why are high-profile investors backing Artie’s vision. How does Artie plan to integrate NFTs into its gaming ecosystem.
Artie’s Innovative Approach to Mobile Gaming
Artie, a Los Angeles-based gaming startup, is making waves in the mobile gaming industry with its innovative approach to game delivery and player engagement. The company recently raised $35.9 million in funding, signaling strong investor confidence in its vision for the future of mobile gaming.
What sets Artie apart from traditional mobile game developers? The company is pioneering a unique method of game distribution that bypasses traditional app stores. Artie’s games can be played instantly without requiring users to download and install separate apps. This frictionless approach could potentially disrupt the current mobile gaming ecosystem dominated by Apple’s App Store and Google Play.
Instant Play Technology
How does Artie’s instant play technology work? While the company hasn’t revealed all the technical details, it’s likely leveraging advanced web technologies and cloud streaming to deliver high-quality gaming experiences directly through web browsers or messaging apps. This approach offers several advantages:
- Reduced barrier to entry for players
- Faster game discovery and engagement
- Potential for viral distribution through social sharing
- Circumvention of app store fees and restrictions
Star-Studded Investor Backing
Artie has attracted an impressive roster of high-profile investors, including:
- NBA star Kevin Durant
- Music industry mogul Scooter Braun
- Zynga founder Mark Pincus
- Warner Music Group
- The Winklevoss twins
Why are these influential figures betting on Artie? The company’s innovative approach to game distribution, combined with its focus on emerging technologies like NFTs, positions it at the intersection of several hot trends in the tech and entertainment industries. Investors likely see potential for Artie to capture a significant share of the rapidly growing mobile gaming market.
The Promise of Cross-Platform Gaming
Artie is developing three cross-platform titles and a software development kit (SDK) to help other developers create instantly playable mobile games. How might this impact the broader gaming industry?
- Increased accessibility for players across devices
- New opportunities for game developers to reach wider audiences
- Potential disruption of traditional app store ecosystems
- Faster iteration and deployment of games
CEO Ryan Horrigan has ambitious goals for the quality of Artie’s games, stating, “We can deliver something that feels as good as a Nintendo Switch game, but it requires no hardware or app download whatsoever.” If Artie can deliver on this promise, it could significantly alter player expectations for mobile gaming experiences.
Exploring the “Artieverse”
Artie is developing what it calls the “Artieverse,” a concept that taps into the growing hype around metaverse technologies. What exactly is the Artieverse, and how does it fit into Artie’s broader vision?
While details remain limited, the Artieverse appears to be a series of interconnected products and experiences that blend gaming, digital collectibles, and social interaction. This aligns with broader industry trends towards more immersive and persistent virtual worlds.
Upcoming Game Titles
Artie has teased two upcoming game titles:
- Run the Table
- Dance Battle
These games will likely showcase Artie’s instant play technology while also integrating NFT elements. The company’s Discord server has provided glimpses of the games’ visual styles and gameplay concepts.
NFT Integration and Digital Collectibles
How is Artie planning to incorporate NFTs into its gaming ecosystem? The company’s website mentions “rare digital collectibles (NFTs)” as a key component of its offering. This suggests that Artie sees potential in using blockchain technology to create unique, tradeable in-game assets.
Artie has announced NFT collaborations with artists including:
- Venezuelan artist Chocotoy
- Hollywood-based illustrator Junkyard
These partnerships hint at Artie’s ambitions to create visually striking and potentially valuable digital collectibles within its games. The integration of NFTs could open up new revenue streams and enhance player engagement through digital ownership and scarcity.
Potential Impact on the Mobile Gaming Landscape
If Artie’s technology and approach prove successful, how might it reshape the mobile gaming industry? Some potential impacts include:
- Reduced reliance on traditional app stores
- New monetization models centered around NFTs and digital collectibles
- Increased emphasis on instant accessibility and cross-platform play
- Blurring of lines between mobile gaming and broader metaverse experiences
Artie’s success could inspire other developers to explore similar instant play technologies, potentially leading to a shift in how mobile games are distributed and consumed.
Challenges and Uncertainties
Despite the excitement surrounding Artie, the company faces several challenges and uncertainties:
- Technical hurdles in delivering high-quality gaming experiences without downloads
- Competition from established mobile gaming giants
- Potential pushback from app store operators
- Regulatory uncertainties surrounding NFTs and blockchain technologies
- The need to build a large enough player base to sustain its ecosystem
How Artie navigates these challenges will be crucial to its long-term success and impact on the industry.
The Future of Artie and Mobile Gaming
As Artie continues to develop its technology and prepare for the launch of its first games, the mobile gaming industry watches with interest. The company’s blend of instant play technology, NFT integration, and metaverse ambitions positions it at the forefront of several emerging trends.
Will Artie’s approach revolutionize mobile gaming, or will it face significant hurdles in adoption and scalability? Only time will tell, but the substantial funding and high-profile backing suggest that many in the industry see potential in Artie’s vision.
As the lines between gaming, digital collectibles, and virtual worlds continue to blur, companies like Artie may play a crucial role in shaping the future of interactive entertainment. Whether Artie becomes a dominant player in this new landscape or serves as a catalyst for broader industry change, its journey will be one to watch closely in the coming years.
For now, the gaming community eagerly awaits the release of Artie’s first titles and the chance to experience its instant play technology firsthand. As the company continues to develop its Artieverse and expand its partnerships, it may well be positioning itself at the forefront of a new era in mobile gaming – one where instant access, digital ownership, and immersive experiences converge to create novel forms of play and interaction.
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Artie, the Los Angeles-based gaming startup backed by NBA star Kevin Durant and Taylor Swift’s nemesis Scooter Braun, raised nearly $36 million this month to deliver “mobile games that hit different,” according to a regulatory filing made public this week.
Eight months ago, Artie revealed it was building three cross-platform titles and a software development kit (SDK) to help developers create mobile games that play automatically — without requiring a download through Apple or Google’s app stores. At the time the company also announced a $10 million seed round from Durant, Braun, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Warner Music Group, and the Winklevoss twins.
“We can deliver something that feels as good as a Nintendo Switch game, but it requires no hardware or app download whatsoever,” CEO Ryan Horrigan told GamesBeat in February. Since then, much of the firm’s work has been under wraps.
Artie declined to comment on the new funds, but it’s likely that some of its preexisting investors chipped in. Early-stage VCs and angel investors often participate in later funding rounds to retain their stakes in companies as they grow. Filings also showed Artie may be looking to raise an additional $805,900.
The three-year-old company’s psychedelic website remains sparse on details to this day, teasing “the greatest party on your phone” and “rare digital collectibles (NFTs).” But a peek at Artie’s Discord server offers a vivid look at its plans for the “Artieverse” — a name for a series of products that unmistakably taps into the hype of the metaverse (a.k.a. a giant digital or 3D space).
Posts on the server preview two titles, “Run the Table” and “Dance Battle,” as well as NFT collaborations with Venezuelan artist Chocotoy and Hollywood-based illustrator Junkyard.
“The Artieverse will contain a multitude of styles so there will be something for everyone! We have huge artist partnerships in the works to share with you soon,” said co-founder Armando McIntyre-Kirwin.
But the best look we have yet at Artie’s NFT-laden gaming experience is a teaser of Run the Table’s intro screen.
What is @theartieverse up to? The LA startup teased instantly playable, NFT-packed games. We’ve learned it’s raising a fat funding round this month, and here’s a preview of ‘Run the Table’ via discord:\n#cryptoartpic.twitter.com/izh3w3bmjl
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According to a Forbes report last April, both the viewership and dollars behind women’s sports at a collegiate and professional level are growing.
In 2022, the first 32 games of the NCAA tournament had record attendance levels, breaking records set back in 2004, and largely driven by the new and rapidly growing women’s NCAA tournament. WNBA openers this year saw a 21% spike in attendance, with some teams including the LA Sparks reporting triple-digit ticket sales growth, about 121% over 2022’s total. In 2023, the average size of an LA Sparks crowd swelled to 10,396 people, up from 4,701 people.
Women make up half the population, but “also 50% of the folks that are walking into the stadium at Dodger Stadium, or your NFL fans are just about 50% women,” noted Erin Storck, a panelist and senior analyst at Los Angeles-based Elysian Park Ventures.
Storck added that in heterosexual households, women generally manage most of the family’s money, giving them huge purchasing power, a potential advantage for female-run leagues.
“There’s an untapped revenue opportunity,” she noted.
In the soccer world, Los Angeles-based women’s soccer team Angel City FC has put in the work to become a household name, not just in LA County but across the nation. At an LA Tech Week panel hosted by Athlete Strategies about investing in sports, Angel City head of strategy and chief of staff Kari Fleischauer said that years before launching the women’s National Women’s Soccer League team, Angel City FC was pounding the pavement letting people know about the excitement ladies soccer can bring. She noted community is key, and that fostering a sense of engagement and safety at the team’s home venue, BMO stadium (formerly Banc of California Stadium), is one reason fans keep coming back.
Adding free metro rides to BMO stadium and private rooms for nursing fans to breastfeed or fans on the spectrum to avoid sensory overload, were just some of the ways ACFC tried to include its community in the concept of its stadium, Fleischauer said.
She noted, though, that roughly 46% of Angel City fans are “straight white dudes hanging out with their bros.”
“Particularly [on] the woman’s side, I’d like to think we do a better job of making sure that there’s spaces for everyone,” Fleischauer told the audience. “One thing we realize is accessibility is a huge thing.”
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At Lowercarbon Capital’s LA Tech Week event Thursday, the synergy between the region’s aerospace industry and greentech startups was clear.
The event sponsored by Lowercarbon, Climate Draft (and the defunct Silicon Valley Bank’s Climate Technology & Sustainability team) brought together a handful of local startups in Hawthorne not far from LAX, and many of the companies shared DNA with arguably the region’s most famous tech resident: SpaceX.
Here’s a look at the greentech startups that pitched during the Tech Week event, and how they think what they’re building could help solve the climate crisis.
Arbor: Based in El Segundo, this year-old startup is working to convert organic waste into energy and fresh water. At the same time, it also uses biomass carbon removal and storage to remove carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in an attempt to avoid further damaging the earth’s ozone layer. At the Tech Week event Thursday, Arbor CEO Brad Hartwig told a stunned crowd that Arbor aims to remove about five billion tons of organic waste from landfills and turn that into about 6 PWh, or a quarter of the global electricity need, each year. Hartwig is an alumni of SpaceX; he was a manufacturing engineer on the Crew Dragon engines from 2016-2018 and later a flight test engineer at Kitty Hawk.
Antora: Sunnyvale-based Antora Energy was founded in 2017, making it one of the oldest companies on the pitching block during the event.
Backed by investors including the National Science Foundation and Los Angeles-based Overture VC, Antora has raised roughly $57 million to date, most recently a $50 million round last February. Chief operating officer Justin Briggs said Antora’s goal is to modernize and popularize thermal energy storage using ultra-hot carbon. Massive heated carbon blocks can give off thermal energy, which Antora’s proprietary batteries then absorb and store as energy. It’s an ambitious goal, but one the world needs at scale to green its energy footprint. According to Briggs, “the biggest challenge is how can we turn back variable intermittent renewable electricity into something that’s reliable and on demand, so we can use it to provide energy to everything we need.”
Arc: Hosting the panel was Arc, an electric boating company that’s gained surprising momentum, moving from design to delivering its first e-boats in just two years of existence. Founded in 2021, the company’s already 70 employees strong and has already sold some of its first e-boats to customers willing to pay the luxury price tag, CTO Ryan Cook said Thursday.
Cook said that to meet the power needs of a battery-powered speedboat, the Arc team designed the vehicle around the battery pack with the goal of it being competitive with gas boats when compared to range and cost of gas. But on the pricing side, it’s not cheap. Arc’s flagship vessel, the Arc One is expected to cost roughly $300,000. During the panel, Cook compared the boat to being “like an early Tesla Roadster.” To date Arc Boats has raised just over $35 million, according to PitchBook, from investors including Kevin Durant, Will Smith and Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Clarity Technology: Carbon removal startup Clarity is based in LA and was founded by Yale graduate and CEO Glen Meyerowitz last year. Clarity is working to make “gigaton solutions for gigaton problems.” Their aim? To remove up to 2,000 billion pounds of carbon from the atmosphere through direct air capture, a process which uses massive fans to move chemicals that capture CO2. But the challenge, Meyerowitz noted in his speech, is doing this at scale in a way that makes an actual dent in the planet’s emissions while also efficiently using the electricity needed to do so.
Meyerowitz spent nearly five years working as an engineer for SpaceX in Texas, and added he’s looking to transfer those learnings into Clarity.
Parallel Systems: Based in Downtown LA’s Arts District, this startup is building zero-emission rail vehicles that are capable of long-haul journeys otherwise done by a trucking company. The estimated $700 billion trucking industry, Parallel Systems CEO Matt Soule said, is ripe for an overhaul and could benefit from moving some of its goods off-road to electric railcars. According to Soule, Parallel’s electric battery-powered rail vehicles use 25% of the energy a semi truck uses, and at a competitive cost. Funded in part by a February 2022 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, Parallel Systems has raised about $57 million to date. Its most recent venture funding round was a $49 million Series A led by Santa Monica-based VC Anthos Capital. Local VCs including Riot Ventures and Santa Monica-based Embark Ventures are also backers of Parallel.
Terra Talent: Unlike the rest of the startups pitching at the Tech Week event, Terra Talent was focused on building teams rather than technology. Founder Dolly Singh worked at SpaceX, Oculus and Citadel as a headhunter, and now runs Terra, a talent and advisory firm that helps companies recruit top talent in the greentech space. But, she said, she’s concerned that all the work these startups are doing won’t matter unless we very quickly turn around the current trendlines. “Earth will shake us off like and she will do just fine in 10,000 years,” she said. “It’s our way of living, everything we love is actually here on earth… there’s nothing I love on Mars,” adding that she’s hopeful the startups that pitched during the event will be instrumental in making sure the planet stays habitable for a little while longer.
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Artie aims to change the mobile gaming market by utilizing an alternative approach to playing games. It wants to offer a myriad of free, high concept, quality mobile games with deep gameplay across all genres that players can access by clicking a link from a social media page instead of needing to download it.
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ryan Horrigan started working on Artie nearly four years ago.
He wanted to give players the ability to directly play free mobile games without having to go through Google or Apple to do so. Horrigan chose this method of business after discovering how much these megacorporations charged the developers to distribute their products.
Typically, many developers tend to go along with Google and Apple because it is seen as the only way of garnering the attention of potential customers. However, this method means that developers must give up a significant amount of royalties to the companies since both take commissions from the total revenue from paid mobile games and in-app purchases. Apple, especially, has a tight grip on the situation since it is the only platform where iOS users can access applications to use on their device.
Rather than go through that process, Horrigan wanted Artie to be a hybrid between cloud gaming and mobile gaming. This business model made sure that players were able to access Artie’s mobile games without having to download them while avoiding having to cede parts of profits to Apple and Google.
Horrigan figured that since most youth spent most of their time on social media that providing a link to these games pasted on various social media pages would be the most ideal method of distribution. Furthermore, Artie can retain all rights to the games they develop specifically for the platform.
The first game featured on the platform was Pong Legends which is a mashup between fighting and pong games. Essentially, players operate anthropomorphic cartoon animals and go against each other in beer pong. The game offers various power-ups, spells, and superpowers that players collect to win the game. Ryan Horrigan designed Pong Legends to resonate with younger audiences and be social in nature, so that the game could maintain retention. The game is currently in its alpha stage, but it will soon be in beta in the near future.
However, the game is not projected to launch until later on in the year. Meanwhile, Artie is developing other games that will be available on the platform for all who use the service to play.
With the mobile gaming market being quite competitive, Artie has some other challenges to overcome in order to reach new audiences. Since the platform aims to access players directly through social media, there are plans to leverage large influencers that will direct more potential customers to their product. Further, Horrigan wants to collaborate with many third-party studios in order to scale his business once Artie is offered more opportunities to grow. Currently, the Artie team consists of fifty members with developers and artists with backgrounds from PlayStation, Activision, Electronic Arts, Zynga, and Disney.
Artie has many investors backing its development: some names include YouTube founder Chard Hurley, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Roblox Chief Product Officer Manuel Bronstein, and former TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer.
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