Indie recreation dev platform The Mirror lands $2.3M in funding

The Mirror has raised a $2.3M Pre-Seed Spherical led by Founders Fund. Members within the spherical embody early-stage funding corporations Konvoy Ventures, Summary Ventures, Florida Funders, and Palm Tree Crew. Based in Miami, Florida, in 2022 by Jared McCluskey (CEO and CTO), The Mirror simplifies the complexities of recreation improvement right into a single platform, offering indie recreation builders and 3D creators with out-of-the-box multiplayer networking, real-time collaboration, a physics sandbox, and community-based user-generated content material, permitting for simple and easy monetization with market gross sales of 3D fashions, textures, scripts, and far more.

The Mirror’s staff believes in open-source software program and selected to construct its platform on prime of the Godot recreation engine. The Mirror actively offers again to the open-source engine with code contributions on GitHub and goals to assist the group thrive. Interoperability is vital to constructing an all-in-one recreation improvement platform, and this will solely be totally achieved with open-source software program.

Indie recreation dev platform The Mirror lands $2.3M in funding Pre-Seed spherical

The Mirror empowers all developer talent ranges, from no-code to superior with visible scripting and real-time coding. Recreation builders, starting from specialists to these with no coding expertise, can construct video games and experiences that they will distribute on the platform’s market and keep away from complications that may be skilled by unbiased channels. Moreover, it gives a market for 3D creators to transcend showcasing their creations on 2D platforms as they will invite their viewers to expertise their works in video games and worlds in The Mirror.

Since launching, The Mirror has expanded its staff to fifteen individuals, primarily based throughout the US, Europe, and South America, developed its product quickly, and achieved a closed alpha in three months and a closed beta in six months. The brand new funding will go in the direction of increasing its core staff of engineers by hiring expertise globally, in addition to rising the model’s presence throughout the gaming trade.

All-in-one recreation and recreation improvement platform

“The Mirror permits builders of any talent stage to construct the subsequent technology of video games and purposes, in real-time, with mates and colleagues. Most software program has moved to real-time collaboration and cloud-based options, however recreation improvement has been left behind and we’re excited to deliver it to the subsequent stage with open-source software program. I’m extremely grateful to our traders for believing in us and we’re excited to point out what we’ve been constructing. The long run is in The Mirror,” commented Jared McCluskey, Founder/CEO of The Mirror.

“I met Jared when he joined OpenStore as an early engineer and we’re excited to again him and the staff. The Mirror has a basically totally different strategy of utilizing open-source software program to deliver real-time collaborative recreation improvement to a fragmented trade,” added Keith Rabois, Associate at Founders Fund.

“After we heard Jared’s pitch for constructing a digital world platform on prime of Godot, we have been extremely excited to put money into The Mirror to see them pursue a multi-billion greenback alternative that may very well be leveraged by a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of players and creators. We consider the Godot engine is without doubt one of the most underrated initiatives within the gaming trade, as a result of it being open-source, missing scale, and never having sufficient gamers utilizing it. We’re thrilled to put money into The Mirror staff and be of their nook,” stated Josh Chapman, Managing Associate at Konvoy Ventures.

“We’re excited to again Jared and the staff at The Mirror with their novel strategy to open-source recreation improvement, interoperability, and infrastructure in a vertically-integrated platform, enabling creators to construct the subsequent technology of purposes,” stated Ramtin Naimi, Common Associate at Summary Ventures.

“As customers spend extra time on-line and construct their presences digitally, they’re creating new worlds in a digitally-native type of possession to construct the subsequent technology of experiences and purposes. The Mirror is creating an interoperable digital world for communities and world builders to construct upon their digital id with none constraints of the bodily world and we’re excited to again them,” added Brett Shear Managing Associate at, Palm Tree Crew.

“The Mirror is evolving web3 into the subsequent interplay of the web constructing an immersive digital setting to empower creators and builders with a ‘megaverse engine’, and we couldn’t be extra excited to assist their mission. Jared is a web3 group builder and with the limitless experiences and creativity the corporate is providing to customers, we consider The Mirror can be on the forefront of the metaverse.” stated Tom Wallace, Managing Associate at Florida Funders.