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Lightforge Games
Video game studio
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- Gaming
- Entertainment
- The Oaks At Meadowridge, NC
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Company mission
To redefine how developers make role-playing games.
Our take
Lightforge Games is an all-remote video game studio dedicated to producing innovative, shared storytelling and social gameplay in role-playing games. The team is currently working on a cross-platform social video game where players are able to create worlds and tell whatever story they want.
Despite being an overcrowded market, it is impossible to ignore the founding team’s experience at top studios – Blizzard and Epic – with Lightforge’s CEO spending five years leading a team to build Fortnite, the world’s most-played game.
This experience and knowledge of what works with consumers, partnered with a trust in Lighforge, marked by the overwhelming investments, positions the company to create quality content that is greatly anticipated by game-players.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Reliable health insurance plans
- 401(k)
- Unlimited paid time off
Company values
- Embrace empathy: Empathy is critical to creating a psychologically safe workplace, key to a diverse and inclusive team, and is the core tenet behind a player-driven approach.
- Work-in-progress: No decision is ever permanent, and it’s never too late to make a good decision.
- Vision validated: Making a game is part art and part science. Have the vision of an artist combined with a scientist's commitment to validating hypotheses.
- Radical honesty: Transparency and honest is key. Everyone can make smarter, more creative decisions when they have the full picture.
- Growth over comfort: Constantly pushing to reach new horizons and strive not to fear the shadows of what might go wrong, and accept the consequences of making mistakes along the way.
- Tell your story: Everyone has a story to tell and everyone should tell it! Whether it’s who you are, a world you’ve built, or how you spent the weekend, share that story with the world.
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$15m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $20.1m
Leadership
Dan Hertzka
(Engineering Director)Experience as Lead Programmer for both Neon Night Riders, a FIEA Student Project, and Epic Games that was responsible for Fortnite.
Glenn Raine
(Art Director)Previously the Concept Artist for Vivendi Universal Games before spending 15 years at Blizzard Entertainment, eventually as Art Lead.
Marc Hutcheson
(Product Director)Initially spent 10 years at Blizzard Entertainment as the Brand Manager prior to a brief stint as Creative Director for Superplay Games, before returning to Blizzard as Director of Marketing Communications. Worked as Marketing Director for Epic Games before co-founding Lightforge.
Matt Schembari
(CEO)Started out as a Programmer for eclecTechs, Cyberlore Studios and The Collective. Spent 8 years at Blizzard Entertainment, eventually as the Lead Software Engineer before serving as Director of UI (Fortnite Platform Team) at Epic Games.