Noodle Cat Games today revealed that it has actually raised $4.1 million in seed financing as it tries to construct a studio around “a versatile, iteration-based advancement design rooted at the crossway of trust, imagination and compassion.”
Noodle Cat was co-founded by a trio of Legendary Games veterans in previous Legendary lead systems designer David Hunt, previous Legendary principal developer Michael Noland, and previous Legendary head of publishing Ed Zobrist. Their existing functions with Noodle Cat are CEO, CTO, and company consultant, respectively.
Much of the Noodle Cat group has previous experience at Legendary, although EA, Bioware, Popcap, and Flying Laboratory Software application are likewise well represented.
The remote working studio has actually made developer-friendly choices like four-day work weeks, versatile working hours, and totally covered health care a feature of its recruitment pitch.
” Our market is infamous for requiring tremendous individual sacrifices in order to get a video game to the goal,” CEO David Hunt stated in a post on the studio’s site.
” Generally, it’s not destructive. The time pressure and short lived nature of monetary success make it simple to stack one apparently small sacrifice on top of another. I have actually seen this grind a lot of colleagues to dust. In one heartbreaking case, I lost a good friend and coach to cardiac arrest far prematurely in his life, due to overwork.”
The financing round was med by Makers Fund, with extra involvement from 1Up Ventures and Epyllion.
