Arcadia Gaming Partners invests $4m in Iron Games studio led by former Gram Games execs

• Deal marks one of many first publicly introduced investments by Akin Babayigit’s $100m early-stage enterprise platform.
• Iron Games goals to make use of the funds to increase the group, speed up improvement and spend money on reusable methods.

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A brand new UK-based cell studio known as Iron Games arrange by former executives at Merge Dragons developer Gram Games has obtained $4 million from early-stage enterprise platform Arcadia Gaming Partners.

The firm was co-founded by ex-Gram chief product officer Eren Yanık and former COO and GM Remzi Senel. The two execs had been on Gram’s management group in the course of the launch of Merge Dragons and the studio’s sale to Zynga.

Iron Games’ ambition is to redefine what gamers count on from informal and merge genres by introducing new, authentic mechanics.

With the brand new funding, the corporate plans to increase the group, speed up improvement and spend money on reusable methods to allow sooner launches, faster studying and finally a portfolio of perpetually video games.

The deal marks one of many first publicly introduced investments by Arcadia Gaming Partners, a $100 million fund for cell video games firms arrange by ex-Tripledot president Akin Babayigit.

Room for experimentation

Speaking to PocketGamer.biz, Yanık stated because the market has matured and progressed over the past decade, new entrants want greater than a single good concept to search out their footing.

“There are many more people in the gaming ecosystem, and a much higher amount of funding available,” he stated.

“Any concept competes for the eye of a finite pool of gamers, with merchandise which have billions invested into them, and also you principally have to determine a technique to do ‘some’ issues higher than them. 

“This means digging extra into your distinctive qualities; have a singular core gameplay with confirmed meta to face out with out compromising familiarity, and run a nimble group of skilled crafters to maneuver quick with out breaking the financial institution.

“We think partially utilising proven mechanics such as merging and matching can maintain that sense of familiarity, while there is still room for experimentation in the way they are integrated into the game.”

He added: “We were fortunate to have many investors eager to back Iron Games, but collaborating with Akin was an obvious and exciting choice. Few people in gaming have built what he has. Tripledot’s rise to becoming Europe’s fastest-growing company is legendary. Akin’s mix of sharp operational instinct, creative vision, and deep network across the global gaming ecosystem makes him not just an investor, but a true force-multiplier for any studio lucky enough to work with him.”

Babayigit commented: “Iron Games embodies the precise philosophy we search for in founders: disciplined, lean, and relentlessly targeted on execution.

“Remzi and Eren have already proven they can build generational hits and world-class teams. Their clarity of vision, combined with their experience leading Gram through one of the most iconic exits in gaming, gives us immense confidence that Iron will be one of the defining studios of this decade.”