Prettygreat Raises $500,000 in Partnership with Crossy Street Creators

Australian recreation developer Prettygreat has introduced it has raised $500,000 in seed funding by way of a partnership with Crossy Road creators Matt Corridor and Andy Sum, in any other case generally known as Hipster Whale. Prettygreat was based in February 2015 by three Halfbrick veterans: Luke Muscat, Phil Larsen and Hugh Walters.

At Halfbrick, Muscat was the creator and designer of cellular hits Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, whereas Walters was the lead artist and artwork director for a number of tasks. In the meantime, Larsen served as chief advertising officer for the corporate.

Hipster Whale’s Crossy Street is a monumental success, having been downloaded over ninety million occasions in six months. This partnership with Prettygreat will see Corridor and Sum be a part of Prettygreat as shareholders and advisors.

In a press release, Phil Larsen, managing director of Prettygreat, commented on the partnership:

Our precedence is sensible innovation and design excellence with each recreation we launch. Matt and Andy’s imaginative and prescient is so as to add extra enjoyable to the world in a cellular market extra receptive to high quality than ever. We’re completely stoked to have them on board, as a result of making superior stuff, sharing it with the world and doing it for the gamers is the Prettygreat means.

Prettygreat will use the funding to develop “a number of titles” for launch on cellular worldwide. Its first recreation might be introduced quickly, and is predicted to launch in 2015.

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