Hypersonic Laboratories raises $7M for sandbox UGC gaming platform

by | May 30, 2024 | Technology

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Hypersonic Laboratories has raised $7 million in funding for a multiplayer role-playing sandbox platform for user-generated content (UGC).

The company is building Helix, a platform that will enable “modders,” or creators building game content, to create their own games inside a virtual world.

The idea is that anyone should be able to pick up and create their own game and world inside Helix. Players and fans can quite literally make the game in crazy detail, like triple-A graphics at in real life (IRL) cityscape scale.

Play Ventures led the round, with participation from AppWorks, WTIC, KB Investment, and Alex Ekvall. This latest round brings Hypersonic’s total funding to $11 million. The new funds will be used to expand the Hypersonic Laboratories team and prepare for Helix’s closed alpha launch later this year, said Jack Kim, CEO of Hypersonic Laboratories, in an interview with Games.

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“We’ve followed Jack (Maker) and his team closely since their earliest days and have increasingly been amazed by their big vision and ability to execute,” said Kenrick Drijkoningen, general partner at Play Ventures, in a statement. “We are excited to support them on their journey to empower creators and players with HELIX. This may well be the biggest new gaming platform in over a decade.”

Origins

Jack Kim is CEO of Hypersonic Laboratories.

The company started in 2019 and it focused on different projects as a game studio. About three years ago, it started building the Helix platform.

“I grew up modding a lot of these epic games — open world games. I was big car enthusiast. So growing up, I used to play a lot of them but also actually mod games like GTA. For all these cars that I wanted in real life, I would search online to find the right model for it, download it, and use all these modern tools to install them into the gam …

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GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here. 

Hypersonic Laboratories has raised $7 million in funding for a multiplayer role-playing sandbox platform for user-generated content (UGC).

The company is building Helix, a platform that will enable “modders,” or creators building game content, to create their own games inside a virtual world.

The idea is that anyone should be able to pick up and create their own game and world inside Helix. Players and fans can quite literally make the game in crazy detail, like triple-A graphics at in real life (IRL) cityscape scale.

Play Ventures led the round, with participation from AppWorks, WTIC, KB Investment, and Alex Ekvall. This latest round brings Hypersonic’s total funding to $11 million. The new funds will be used to expand the Hypersonic Laboratories team and prepare for Helix’s closed alpha launch later this year, said Jack Kim, CEO of Hypersonic Laboratories, in an interview with Games.

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“We’ve followed Jack (Maker) and his team closely since their earliest days and have increasingly been amazed by their big vision and ability to execute,” said Kenrick Drijkoningen, general partner at Play Ventures, in a statement. “We are excited to support them on their journey to empower creators and players with HELIX. This may well be the biggest new gaming platform in over a decade.”

Origins

Jack Kim is CEO of Hypersonic Laboratories.

The company started in 2019 and it focused on different projects as a game studio. About three years ago, it started building the Helix platform.

“I grew up modding a lot of these epic games — open world games. I was big car enthusiast. So growing up, I used to play a lot of them but also actually mod games like GTA. For all these cars that I wanted in real life, I would search online to find the right model for it, download it, and use all these modern tools to install them into the gam …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]

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