Launched final month by key Godot Engine leaders, W4Games simply introduced they’ve acquired an $8.5M funding from a lot of totally different sources. W4Games was shaped to assist Godot engine improvement in a number of areas the place it at present faces problem, together with assist for proprietary consoles in addition to in company use. W4Games must also be a car to assist assist Godot 4 improvement and is already bearing fruit within the type of a Direct3D 12 renderer.

Details of the brand new investments from the W4Games announcement:

W4 Games, an Irish COSS (Commercial Open Source Software) startup based mostly on the open supply recreation improvement expertise of the Godot Engine platform, introduced immediately that it has efficiently closed a US $8.5 million seed funding funding spherical led by OSS Capital, the world’s first and solely early-stage COSS firm investor and platform, and LUX Capital, a number one Silicon Valley VC specialised in rising science and expertise ventures. The funding course of was additionally joined by trade veteran Bob Young, the founding father of Red Hat, and Sisu Game Ventures, an early-stage enterprise capital fund centered on video games.

The funds will probably be used to develop W4 Games’ core crew and speed up the event of a collection of services for the Godot ecosystem, enabling all builders to create and publish video games and functions on all main platforms. The firm will current its product roadmap at GDC 2023.

W4 Games may even immediately assist the Godot venture with donations, expertise and code contributions.

Along with the funding, W4Games are additionally increasing, so if you’re in search of a job (it’s a digital firm that works remotely) you may browse accessible job positions right here. You can study extra about W4Games and the $8.5M funding within the video beneath.