Magic Games has raised over $5 million in seed funding. With that cash, the newly fashioned cellular developer plans on bringing in additional artists and builders to its Istanbul workplace, together with establishing a second workplace in Europe. 

Turkey has develop into a booming (if shady) recreation marketplace for the hypercasual market ever since Zynga purchased Peak Games again in 2020. It’s not terribly shocking that former Peak staffers would discovered a brand new studio to get in on that success once more, neither is it shocking they’d increase to the UK, one of many largest houses for recreation builders.

Magic was based by Çağrı Öztürk, Rüya Çelikcan, and Mert Kasar, who all had been beforehand executives at Toy Blast developer Peak Games. The trio aren’t the one ex-Peak staffers to ascertain their very own studios: former COO and co-founder Hakan Bas based his personal studio, Ace Games, in 2021. 

Leading the pack in seed funding was enterprise capital agency Makers Fund, which has beforehand invested in fellow cellular studio Dream Games (twice, really). Magic’s debut recreation will likely be a match-3 title that mixes neighborhood options with multiplayer gaming, which Öztürk stated could be an necessary issue within the developer’s titles. 

“Our firm builds across the perception that social interactions are the important thing to deepening and enriching our shared gameplay expertise,” he wrote in a press launch. “Social options are integral to our improvement cycle as we work to construct multiplayer video games that anybody can take pleasure in.”

The mixture of match-3, neighborhood, and multiplayer is what caught Makers’ consideration, stated funding lead Curtis Urbanowicz on the deal. “Çağrı and his staff have constructed world class video games on this style earlier than, and we expect the informal video games market goes to like the contemporary perspective that they’re bringing to this subsequent chapter.”