Noodle Cat raises $4.1M for distant working studio

Noodle Cat introduced at this time it has raised $4.1 million in funding for its studio. The brand new developer operates remotely, and is constructed with the intention of fostering a optimistic, versatile work tradition. Amongst different advantages, it gives four-day workweeks and versatile hours.

Makers Fund led the spherical, with 1Up Ventures and investor Matthew Ball’s Epyllion collaborating. Jay Chi, founding associate at Makers Fund, mentioned in an announcement, “David [Hunt, CEO] and the Noodle Cat staff impressed us with their dedication to reinvent the best way the video games trade approaches the event course of.”

David Hunt, additionally the co-founder, spoke with GamesBeat about his intentions for the corporate. “It’s a good time to try to work out how we must always make video games, not simply now however sooner or later. A variety of the practices we have now in making video games have stayed the identical for the previous couple of a long time … we put a whole lot of effort into offering satisfaction and motivation for gamers, however we don’t put the identical into how we construct our personal processes.”

Noodle Cat is hiring now, in preparation for work on the corporate’s first recreation, which will likely be an unique IP. Hunt added, “We like to inform folks we wish their greatest, not their most … we’re attempting to make a construction that’s constructed round each particular person having the ability to work within the time and house and technique that can give us the most effective of their abilities and creativity.”