{"id":5460,"date":"2022-01-14T01:42:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T08:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2022-01-20T08:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:09:45","slug":"yahaha-studios-secures-50m-for-building-metaverse-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/yahaha-studios-secures-50m-for-building-metaverse-platform","title":{"rendered":"Yahaha Studios Secures $50M For Building Metaverse Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Finnish game development company Yahaha Studios has raised $50 million to develop a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/epic-games-secures-1b-in-funding-for-its-metaverse-plans\" title=\"Epic Games Secures $1B In Funding For Its Metaverse Plans\">metaverse game<\/a> creation platform that doesn&#8217;t require coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yahaha Studios is a metaverse platform founded in 2020 that encourages user-generated content. Users may use the platform to design and run their own games as well as monetize existing ones. It also provides a social aspect, allowing game developers to share or distribute their creations across other platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yahaha aims to provide similar tools to those without programming expertise with its new no-code platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yahaha raised the money in three rounds in the last six months. The studio was created by a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/unity-acquires-artomatix\" title=\"Unity acquires Artomatix\">Unity<\/a> veterans and provides a modular set of services for game creation, including art assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Achieving an investment of $50 million is incredibly exciting for us. Founded by a team of Unity veterans, Yahaha Studios has a key part to play in ushering in the next generation of entertainment as the metaverse continues to grow. Connecting users around the world through virtual entertainment, Yahaha offers a unique creative and social experience to game developers and gamers alike,&#8221; said Yahaha CEO Chris Zhu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Through Yahaha, we are empowering creators at all levels, from established developers to those making their first game &#8211; everyone can be a creator in our virtual world. We&#8217;re really looking forward to fully launching this year, growing our team, and bringing the first stage of our vision for the future of content creation to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yahaha Studios plans to release the new no-code system early this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Send your news to news@gamesround.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finnish game development company Yahaha Studios has raised $50 million to develop a metaverse game creation platform that doesn&#8217;t require coding. Yahaha Studios is a metaverse platform founded in 2020 that encourages user-generated content. Users may use the platform to design and run their own games as well as monetize existing ones. It also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[1080,54,1231,1230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5527,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions\/5527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}