Godforge dev Fateless raises $14M through community driven investments
Fateless, developer of the upcoming RPG game Godforge, has completed a second funding round of million.Announced earlier today, the second round brings the total amount raised to million. According to Fateless, the investments have been driven largely by HH Gaming and HellHades community members. For reference, Fateless was founded by former content creator and co-founder of HH Gaming, Simon "HellHades" Lockerby and fellow co-founder Dan "Phixion" Francis, alongside Skeleton Hand CEO Hisham "Sham" Saleh.Lockerby mentioned that the team's YouTube channels, website, Discord, and social medial channels make up for "over 2 million players," a number that's giving the team confidence around Godforge. The game recently entered its alpha period and is scheduled to launch during Q1 2026.Angel investors from within the content creator community helped to establish Fateless in around 10 weeks"More importantly, the community has already expressed great belief in the game by helping us raise funds of Mduring our initial startup phase and was a major contributor to our latest round," Lockerby said during the announcement.In an interview with Secret Stash, a podcast hosted by Archie Stonehill and Justin Kan, Lockerby specifically mentioned that the million figure was raised "in like a 10-week period from angel investors within the community," rather than through a crowdfunding campaign or similar, which helped the content creators to build out the studio.Related:According to statistics shared by Fateless via LinkedIn about the first wave of the Godforge alpha period, 4,421 players logged in over a period of 3 days, logging a total of 45,776 play hours.This hasn't been the first time content creators have decided to jump into game development. A notable example includes YouTuber Jason Gastrow, known as Dunkey, who established a new game publishing label called Bigmode in September 2022. Since then, the label has worked with Team D-13 and Billy Basso for the releases of Star of Providence and Animal Well, respectively.
#godforge #dev #fateless #raises #14mGodforge dev Fateless raises $14M through community driven investments
Fateless, developer of the upcoming RPG game Godforge, has completed a second funding round of million.Announced earlier today, the second round brings the total amount raised to million. According to Fateless, the investments have been driven largely by HH Gaming and HellHades community members. For reference, Fateless was founded by former content creator and co-founder of HH Gaming, Simon "HellHades" Lockerby and fellow co-founder Dan "Phixion" Francis, alongside Skeleton Hand CEO Hisham "Sham" Saleh.Lockerby mentioned that the team's YouTube channels, website, Discord, and social medial channels make up for "over 2 million players," a number that's giving the team confidence around Godforge. The game recently entered its alpha period and is scheduled to launch during Q1 2026.Angel investors from within the content creator community helped to establish Fateless in around 10 weeks"More importantly, the community has already expressed great belief in the game by helping us raise funds of Mduring our initial startup phase and was a major contributor to our latest round," Lockerby said during the announcement.In an interview with Secret Stash, a podcast hosted by Archie Stonehill and Justin Kan, Lockerby specifically mentioned that the million figure was raised "in like a 10-week period from angel investors within the community," rather than through a crowdfunding campaign or similar, which helped the content creators to build out the studio.Related:According to statistics shared by Fateless via LinkedIn about the first wave of the Godforge alpha period, 4,421 players logged in over a period of 3 days, logging a total of 45,776 play hours.This hasn't been the first time content creators have decided to jump into game development. A notable example includes YouTuber Jason Gastrow, known as Dunkey, who established a new game publishing label called Bigmode in September 2022. Since then, the label has worked with Team D-13 and Billy Basso for the releases of Star of Providence and Animal Well, respectively.
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