Minit Games, a start-up company that focuses on the “node” game experience, has raised $200 for pre-seed financing. The current round of financing was co-financed by LVP and the Sony Innovation Fund, and angel investors included senior members of the industry, such as Stefan Klemm (Goodgame, Bigpoint), Timo Soininen (Small Giant) and Klaus Kerstig (Gameforge, Fraregames, Phoenix).
Minit Games does not rely on traditional app stores and lengthy downloading processes, but rather provides a personalized, instant loadable HTML5 game to remove barriers to the discovery of games. In addition, Minit claims that the games will be made available through the company ‘ s iOS and Android applications, web pages and embedded games of information platforms supported by Discord and Telegram. Minit Games states that a “personalized, algorithm-driven HTML5 push platform is being constructed to make the game live.” The game creators can publish their work directly to the Minit Games-like TikTok-style delivery platform. Minti also disclosed the upcoming launch of the Alpha test version, which was restricted to the participation of invited users. The Minti Game team was created in Hamburg, Germany, under the leadership of Ole Schaper and Mark Buchholz, both of whom served as Sviper, The Sandbox and Kyna Gomes executives. Mark Buchholz is the founder of Sviper, director of the Sandbox studio and director of games, and co-founder of Kyna Gomes; Ole Schaper was former chief executive officer of Sviper, director of the Sandbox mobile and studio, and co-founder of Kyna Games.
Ole Schaper says: “The player lives in the flow of content sent by algorithms, but the game is still trapped in the app store. We are building a platform where short video games can be seen and interacted as easily as other modern media formats. We don’t just show the show, we provide a full and interactive game experience.” Minit is not the first mobile game company to try to build TikTok. HypeHype, an investment of Supercell, has been in trial operation for many years, and Smirk became a competitor in this field at the end of 2024, but appears to have not yet completed the test run. The first Playbyte that tried this pattern has been closed. TikTok itself briefly tested the ads that could be played in 2023, but shortly afterwards TikTok indicated in an interview that the project was only a test and has now been terminated.
