With India’s gaming market reaching an inflection point in terms of scale and the propensity to pay, several gaming studios are increasingly basing their video games on Indian stories and themes for wider adoption by players. SuperGaming previously raised $5.5 million in its Series A financing from investors such as Akatsuki Entertainment Technology Fund, Skycatcher, BAce Capital and Dream Incubator. "A customer becoming an investor is the biggest validation we at SuperGaming could ever ask for, so it's a tremendous honour to have Bandai Namco invest in us and join us on our journey of making games people play for years." "Working on PAC-MAN was a bucket list item which I have been fortunate to tick off," said Roby John, co-founder and CEO, SuperGaming. The firm's official Pac-Man game, which has over one billion downloads across all storefronts, is powered by SuperPlatform.Īvailable to game developers as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, SuperPlatform helps them manage live operations, matchmaking, player progression, player data, analytics, monetisation systems, server scaling, sales, and merchandising, in addition to integrating with popular game development platforms like Unity, Unreal Engine, Pla圜anvas, and Cocos Creator. SuperGaming is also building a live-ops game engine called SuperPlatform, for which Bandai Namco Entertainment is a customer. Read: How SuperGaming plans to build India's Fortnite with Indus It is set in ‘Indo-Futurism,’ which the company describes as a futuristic world that is “unapologetically Indian in its exploration and representation of science fiction.” It is also building an ambitious made-in-India battle royale title called Indus, which is heavily inspired by Indian culture and mythology and has the Indus Valley civilisation as its backdrop. The company claims to have more than 300 million players across its games portfolio. "Through this investment, we will seek to expand our business by combining our expertise in IPs with a deeper understanding of the Asian market, which is expected to grow further in the future," Bandai Namco Entertainment said in a statement.įounded by Roby John, Sanket Nadhani, Christelle D'cruz, Sreejit J, and Navneet Waraich in 2019, SuperGaming has developed several popular games such as the multiplayer shooter title MaskGun, social deduction title Silly Royale, tower defence game Tower Conquest along with a Web3 variant Tower Conquest: Metaverse Edition. While the deal size was not disclosed, the fund typically invests between 10 million and 500 million yen ($75,000 to $3.75 million) in each startup. The investment was made through Bandai Namco's startup investment fund "Bandai Namco Entertainment 021 Fund," which was announced in April 2022. Bandai Namco Entertainment, the Japanese gaming giant behind titles such as Pac-Man, Tekken and Elden Ring, has made an investment in Pune-based game development studio SuperGaming, the company announced on March 17, signifying the growing investor interest in Indian gaming studios.
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