Hypemasters raises $3.25M to make World War Armies mobile RTS game

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Hypemasters has raised $3.25 million to make a mobile game.

The round was led by GEM Capital and The Games Fund. $1 million came from The Games Fund and $250,000 came from Ludus.

Boris Kalmykov is the founder of Hypemasters. There are 34 people at the company. During World War II, the company's debut game, World War Armies, is an ambitious competitive real time strategy game.

The team wants to preserve and amplify the essence of the real time strategy game by adapting it for the mobile platform.

Boris Kalmykov said that this is a breakthrough moment for Hypemasters. The funding from new partners will help strengthen the team, launch World War Armies and continue growing beyond a single game.

He said that they have parted ways with MGVC and want to thank them for their support. We feel privileged to be working with professional gaming VC's, as this is a new chapter on the path of an independent global company. We look into the future with a lot of hope.

World War Armies will be released this summer.

The company raised pre-seed and seed rounds in the past The company will use the money to make a movie called World War Armies.

As early investors in Hypemasters, we are happy to support Boris and the team. Maria Kochmola, managing partner at The Games Fund, said she was in love with the Hypemasters corporate culture. They are able to attract investors and the best talent who want to create games and be proud of them. In TGF, we are big fans of the genre as players and as investors, and I think there's a huge potential for World War Armies.

Roman Gurskiy, games and entertainment leader at GEM Capital, said that the companies they aim to support are the ones that are not afraid to experiment and go their own way. There are no popular mobile games on the market that could be called "true real time strategy", and we believe that World War Armies can take a leading position in this niche.

Kalmykov told GamesBeat that he was thinking of starting his own thing. I had an urge to create, to lead and to self-manifest that I couldn't fulfill in any of the jobs I was doing. We had a very small team. I realized during the first year that I wanted to focus Hypemasters on games that define the industry. What's the reason? I enjoy playing well-executed games.

He said that he played a lot of games as a kid. I want to be a part of that group of creators. Hypemasters has embarked on a mission to create games that players all over the world enjoy for years.

Riot Games, Supercell, and Small Giant Games are the companies that inspired Kalmykov. Company of Heroes is a game that the team is inspired by.

The company has raised a lot of money. The team comes from many different places.

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