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Playful Studios

300 E Davis St, McKinney, Texas, 75069, United States

Overview

Playful is an independent game studio founded in January 2013 by CEO Paul Bettner. The studio is the creator of Lucky’s Tale, a character action game designed exclusively for virtual reality, and is developing Creativerse, a next-generation sandbox adventure currently in early access on Steam with rave reviews from beta players. Playful received $25M in funding from unnamed private investors and will use the funds to accelerate development of original IP for its platforms. The company plans to expand its internal development teams, fund new original projects and is hiring. Lucky’s Tale is slated to debut alongside the consumer version of the Oculus Rift in 2016.

Total raised
$25M
Funding rounds
1
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Oct 2015

Industries

  • Console Games
  • Gaming
  • Incubators
  • Information Technology
  • PC Games
  • Video Games
  • Virtual Reality
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Oct 2015

    $25M

Team

No current team members are available.