- The company will use the funds to grow its platform and expand its team
- “Players can now hardly tell the difference between games played natively or on the mobile web”
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Game distribution platform dotplay has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Transcend Fund with contributions from investors in ad tech and finance sectors.
dotplay will use the funds to expand its platform, onboard more game developers, and employ additional engineers to the team.
The platform aims to revolutionise the mobile gaming industry with its mobile web gaming technology using recent web advancements to provide new experiences for developers and players.
Addressing cost and platform fees
“We believe the mobile web can compete with app stores for distribution. Off-store monetisation and distribution are set to accelerate across all formats, and we’re here to lead that charge,” said Iskander Pataudi, CEO [right] who co-founded the company alongside CTO Bartosz Alksnin [left].
“Our technology transforms store-dependent apps into cross-device, instantly playable mobile web games, making mobile gaming more accessible for players and cost-effective for developers.”
As recent advancements in Unity WebGPU, WebGL, PWA support, and 5G make high-quality mobile web gaming possible, dotplay is utilising these technologies to offer a web gaming experience that’s comparable to native apps, with tools for game conversion, performance optimisation, and in-app purchases.
Pataudi added: “These innovations have led to two major breakthroughs: first, players can now hardly tell the difference between games played natively or on the mobile web, which is amazing.”
“Second, unlike before when users had trouble remembering web URLs and retention suffered, we’ve now managed to make mobile web apps function just like native apps. They occupy equal space on a player’s device, allowing for saved progress and push notifications,” the CEO concluded.
