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Gaming veteran Chris Heatherly has raised $3 million for his new casual party game studio Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow.
Heatherly is the former head of NBCUniversal’s gaming business, and he was the general manager of Club Penguin when Disney was still making games with its own internal game developers.
Heatherly has been delving into game startups and Web3 games since NBCUniversal shut its game publishing business in 2019. He took one game that NBCUniversal had commissioned, Funko Pop! Blitz, and saw that through its launch with N3twork.
Among Us meets Clue
Shima Capital led the round. Also joining the seed round are Sfermion, GSR Markets, Arca, Lyrik Ventures, Flying Falcon, Press Start Capital and 32-Bit Ventures. The game also is supported by a grant from Polygon Labs and will use the Polygon blockchain.
The Mystery Society starts its beta test today, and Heatherly hopes to attract people who are curious about Web3. The goal is to try to expand the appeal of Web3 to casual audiences, helping Web3 spread to more mainstream players.
Heatherly is the former general manager of the pioneering virtual world Club Penguin, and later
became senior vice president of mobile games at Disney and then executive vice president of
Games at Universal.
He’s joined by a team of former Club Penguin colleagues utilizing their combined experience in live social games. Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow also has a development collaboration with Beamable, who are building web3 capabilities such as custodial wallets and the ability to mint into their industry-leading live operated games platform to support the team’s aims.
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