About Us
12 years of experience designing games with over $100M in revenue and over 65M players
Our mission is to make games that are good alone and great together.
Good alone, great together means games that you can enjoy playing solo and also allow you to play with your friends anytime, anywhere. We want your relationships with friends to be stronger as a result. We care deeply about this, but we aren’t the only ones. There is a large, underserved audience for inclusive multiplayer games. According to the latest ESA survey, 77% of players play with others weekly (up from 65% in 2020).
You play video games, and you have lots of friends who play video games. It’s likely that you don’t play video games with them as much as you’d want to. That’s because there are many things that stop you. Some of those things might be:
Wrong platform
The game you want to play with your friends only runs on one platform, and it’s a platform you don’t have.
Wrong theme or mechanic
It might be that your friend is really into obscure horror games. You might wish that your friend would play your bullet hell shooter with you, but obscure themes and obscure mechanics can often be a barrier.
Takes too much (or too little) time
You might have more time to play than your friend or vice versa leading to one of you being much further along in the game.
Too much (or too little) skill: In some multiplayer PvP games where you might be far superior to your friends, you often end up with a consistent result: you always wins, and it isn’t fun.
These are just some examples. You’re probably thinking: “You forgot about this other problem that stops me from playing with my friends!” Don’t worry, we have a much longer list. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Our mission is to solve as best we can for all of the problems stopping you from playing with your friends. We are building synchronous multiplayer action games that are designed to be super fun and will run on all the major platforms. We’re making sure our games let you enjoy a little or a lot at once while building into big experiences. We’ll make sure that even if your friend is the best player on the planet, and you are a total beginner that you can still both have a good time together.
We don’t have all the answers yet, but we’ve got some cool stuff cooking behind the curtains and we believe that games can be a lot better at letting people play together anytime and anywhere than they are today.
OUR STORY
12 Years of experience designing games with over $100M in revenue and over 65M players
Roboto Games is a small scrappy studio made up of plucky game industry vets who, despite common wisdom, cannot stop making games. This isn’t our first rodeo. In 2007 we founded ZipZapPlay, a web and Facebook games company, which we sold to PopCap and then became a part of Electronic Arts in 2011.
2nd time founders
Shipped UGC Platform with >200K games
Shipped a Top 20 Game on Facebook
Sold ZipZapPlay to PopCap Games
Managed EA/PopCap San Francisco studio
OUR FOUNDERS
Curt Bererton, CEO
Curt holds a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has 18 years of experience in games and grew up on a farm in Canada.
Mathilde Pignol, CCO
Mathilde holds a Masters in Human Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. She has 15 years of experience in games and grew up in the banlieues of Paris.
OUR INVESTORS
Our latest funding round was led by the smart folks at Andreessen Horowitz and included investment from the amazing people at Ancient8, Animoca Brands, Gumi Cryptos Capital, Harrison Metal Capital, Makers Fund, Merit Circle, and Transcend with angel investment from Daniel James, James Gwertzman, Jameson Hsu, Pany Haritatos, Phil Chen, Cristian Manea in addition to many great angels from the PKO Angel Syndicate. Our 2019 seed round was led by Harrison Metal Capital with significant participation from Makers Fund.
OUR TEAM
At Roboto we believe our differences make us stronger. Our team is made up of folks from different backgrounds and experience levels, and each person contributes directly to all our games in their own way.
Roboto Games is a remote-first, venture-backed, video game studio. We make games that are good alone and great together. We could use your help!
CONTACT US
If you would like to get in touch with us, please email contact@robotogames.com.