Lightforge Games

Lightforge Games is a game developer founded by a team of industry veterans from prominent developers such as Activision Blizzard and Epic Games. The company (founded in May 2020) aims to build a cross-platform role-playing game (RPG) with social elements. The developer claims it intends to blend aspects of Minecraft with tabletop RPGs in its first release.

Lightforge’s founder Matt Schembar previously spent eight years at Blizzard and another five years at Epic, where he led the Fortnite platform team. Furthermore, the team includes veterans such as Dan Hertzka (former Epic programmer), Nathan Fairbanks (former Epic producer), Glenn Rane (former Blizzard artist), and Marc Hutcheson (former Blizzard and Epic marketing director). Collectively, the team has contributed to hit esports games such as Fortnite, World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Hearthstone, the StarCraft 2 trilogy, Overwatch, and Elder Scrolls Online.

Lightforge Games raised USD 15 million in a Series A funding round led by Bitkraft Ventures in March 2022 . The round also included the participation of Galaxy Interactive, NetEase, and Dune Ventures. The funds were allocated for the development of its first game. The round follows its USD 5 million seed round in May 2021 .