Feminine-founded and led social storytelling platform Dorian has acquired developer Nix Hydra Video games and its flagship titles.
This acquisition is part of Dorian’s progress technique, connecting followers and impartial creators to in style IPs, monetisation options, and code-free creation instruments.
Like Dorian, Nix Hydra was based by a gaggle of girls, and has achieved greater than six million downloads throughout its catalogue of video games.
Code-free creation
Nix Hydra focuses on empowering underrepresented communities by video games and interactive storytelling. The corporate’s flagship titles Fictif and Arcana: A Mystic Romance have over 300 chapters and the latter has been downloaded over six million instances. Dorian will work with Nix Hydra’s fan neighborhood to develop the canon of each video games.
To be able to promote progress, Dorian has expanded its govt crew, with new members together with key members of the Nix Hydra crew – neighborhood supervisor Alex Danino and lead artist Gabriella Rossetti, who will work to combine each Arcana and Fictif into the brand new platform.
Wattpad/Webtoon’s former director of creator partnership I-Yana Tucker, former CTO of Tales Alex Corridor, and Pocket Gems and Loopy Maple Studio veteran Liz Tingue have additionally joined the crew.
“With gaming as the biggest and quickest rising type of leisure immediately, and main streaming giants dropping subscribers to creator-driven platforms like TikTok and Twitch, the message is evident: large, daring modifications coming to the panorama of how content material is created and consumed,” stated Dorian founder and CEO Julia Palatovska.
Earlier this 12 months, Dorian raised $14 million in a Sequence A to develop cloud-based creation instruments.
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