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Great Job, Commissioner: Blaseball Is Going Mobile
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The Game Band, makers of quirky browser sports game
Blaseball, have raised $US3 ($4) million in a recent seed round, the studio announced today. This investment, made possible by a venture capital firm known as Makers Fund, will be put towards expanding the development team, building a mobile
Blaseball app, and other unannounced projects.
“From our very first conversation, Makers Fund appreciated
Blaseball’s chaotic spirit as well as its untapped potential,” said The Game Band founder and CEO Sam Rosenthal. “We’re so grateful to them for the opportunity to make
Published on 18 May, 2021
Blaseball, the fictional fantasy sports game, exploded in popularity last year. Since then, developers The Game Band have continued to run the game, tweaking rules and tailoring its story in response to fans participating by playing but also writing fan fiction and creating fan art.
Now they ve announced that they ve secured funding to continue developing the game, to grow their team, and to make future projects without fear of going under.
In a post on Medium, founder Sam Rosenthal wrote that the funding came from the Makers Fund, 1Up Ventures and Matthew Ball. No figure is mentioned in the post, though TechCrunch report that it s $3 million in investment.
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Published on 8 May, 2021
Videogame awards are good for three things: they encourage people to continue creating new work; they direct attention towards particular pebbles among the otherwise amorphous landslide of new game releases; and they give bystanders like me something of mercifully little consequence to gripe about when nominations don t align with our personal tastes.
I m sad to report that the Independent Games Festival has delivered only two out of three in 2021. The nominations for this year s IGF Awards were announced yesterday, but they have left me little to gripe about.
Sure, there s some changes I d make, but there s no glaring omissions in my eyes. The panel of jurists have correctly identified that Teardown was one of the best games released last year, for example, and so it is nominated for both the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Excellence In Design. The Grand Prize nominees also include Paradise Killer, Umurangi Generation, and Spiritf