Mathilde Pignol

Making games is hard and sometimes you just have to have a laugh. 😆

Today is the most exciting date in @Uthana_Inc's history as we announce our funding round and bring our product into Open Beta. Anyone can now experience generative AI for 3D character animation by 1. Uploading any rigged character (regardless of skeleton) 2. Prompting with text or video OR searching a library of 10,000 motions 3. Editing in a web application and downloading in FBX or GLB Below is our explainer video that gives a quick overview of what's available. This is a first step toward Uthana's vision to power real-time, novel motion in response to narration, environment, and character intent. In furtherance of that vision, we're announcing a $4.3M funding round from @iaventures , A16Z's @speedrun, @AcequiaCapital, @HustleFundVC, @MetaVision_VC and others. Thank you to @bradgillespie , @JesseBeyroutey, @andrewchen , @ndrewlee, @Tocelot, @tkexpress11, @zebird0, @farooqib, @toddhooper, @dunkhippo33, @edenchen, @tejasdkulkarni and many others for the trust you've put in us and the support provided along the way. To all the game developers, animators, and creators out there—dive in, let me know what you think, and join our Discord. Your feedback is what drives us to get even better.

Yesterday we announced that we are doing a Kickstarter for STARS REACH. We're doing this because the climate for games investment is terrible. We've raised a lot of money, and expect to keep raising. Being able to show support from players helps. Even a Follow goes a long way:

🧟 Our Ghouls are in a Thriller mood for Halloween 🎃 Ghouls are but one of many enemies you'll encounter in the world of Stormforge. Wishlist Stormforge on Steam: buff.ly/3NL7ncN #gamedev #indiegames #gaming #indiegame #pcgaming #survival

@sbergel I'll be in for some cautious optimism.

Total value is lumpy but 70% YoY deal count increase in games M&A is arguably a recovery signal with 4 consecutive quarters of ⬆️ activity across 56 deals totaling $2.5B. PE and strategics actively consolidating. Outlook trending cautiously optimistic. drakestar.com/news/global-ga…

Today we revealed our game at IGN Live. Stormforge is an open world survival crafting game where you harness the power of magical storms. youtube.com/watch?v=ve0LTG…

Catch the debut trailer of our fantasy open-world survival crafting game, Stormforge, which premiered earlier today at IGN Live! youtu.be/ve0LTG4_ICg?si… #Stormforge #IGNLive #SummerofGaming

We’re thrilled to announce that our debut trailer for Stormforge will premiere at #IGNLive! Tune in to learn more about Stormforge and see exclusive gameplay footage!

Excited to share a first look at Stormforge, the game we've been working on!

Dominion! on your phone! And made by a great dev, don't miss it.

🎃 Post-Halloween Team Shoutout! 🎃 Now that the spooky season has come to an end, we just had to take a moment to appreciate these incredible costumes. Our team truly outdid themselves! Thank you for adding a touch of magic the season! Cheers to our spook-tacular team! 🥂

As of right now, Hardhat Wombat has 100% positive reviews on Steam, the latest of which is just a one line review that says: "Opening the pause menu creates a fart sound." Well, what are you waiting for? A better review than that?? I say go get this game! store.steampowered.com/app/2202750/Ha…

🥂 A huge congratulations to the team at @FreeRangeGames on the launch of The lord of the rings return to Moria! store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-lo…

If you want to hear me and Curt talk about why we started Roboto Games, and about the game we're building, now you can!

I worked on an early, very different iteration of the @unity pricing changes ~1 yr ago My thoughts: 1. Unity strategically had no choice but to make changes 2. Devs are upset, but it isn't quite as bad as it seems 3. Unity's comms & implementation wasn't great More below 👇

This is legit the kind of math I'm doing too. I've learned that Unity's fee won't be retroactive which is delightful, but also Among Us gets enough dls per month that I could just hire two whole people to port AU away from Unity instead of them taxing us for 0 added value.

Unity game engine now charging a fee per install starting 01/24. theverge.com/2023/9/12/2387… Risky move by Unity. Short term profit yes, but long term? Any new project that was considering another engine just made their choice. Unreal and other engines should have a party today.

Truly terrible move for mobile developers, especially hypercasual. This seems likely to undermine Unity's dominance as an engine on mobile over time

Most founders ask the wrong questions about design: • How does this page look? • Do our colors work? • What do you think of these icons? These are the 5 questions they should ask: 🧵

If that's something that sounds interesting to you, consider applying. We're remote-friendly. robotogames.com/careers

That's why we want our game to be bite sized and mobile friendly. If you have time to sit down and play for hours, you can. But if you don't, you can have a meaningful short session.

I am very excited to finally be able to announce our fundraise and our next game! Read more about it and see if we have an open position that might be a good fit!