Hydratac raises $ 3 million to the “very realistic” shooting game

Hydratac It is a small company with only seven people working in the “very realistic” shooting game, and it raised $ 3 million.

The former capitalist capitalist company Luis Griemeh is supported by Dan Bunting Company participating in Treyarch Studio, and is a member of the Hydratac Board of Directors. They mainly switched the roles in the process of returning this studio to life.

As VC, I used to joking that it would take a long time for me even to standards over time on
On the part of the investor, given that I spent 15 years before VC as a businessman/Exec/operator/creator in
“Today I am from ecstasy to announce that these standards have declined in the other direction – I return to entrepreneurship after I spent nearly five years as a founder/partner at 1 am Gaming VC and our mother company March Capital.”

He added: “Dan Poning (formerly from Call of Duty) will be a member of the Board of Directors. We are building a very realistic military simulation with the initial focus on the battle of the nearby quarter.”

Ponting spent his career in building Call of Duty Franching in Treyarch, where he contacted Studio Head and helped create games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and Zombies. He left Activision amid some of the disturbances that the company went through in the ME-TOO era. Bunting did not publicly talk about these circumstances in detail, but there was a lot of written on this topic.

Grieham said that working on Hydratac started last year and realized, “It was simply very huge, and it is very ideal, for us not to cultivate the flag in the gap.”

The archers of the first person are a huge market, and the team had a lot of experience, technology and interesting products. Therefore, the trigger pulled and joined them as an executive president.

Late last year, the company raised $ 3 million in the first capital of Lead 1am Gaming VC and HGM FUND. The team has seven full -time people and has the first repetition of the product works internally. Grieham said that the company is testing daily, and it has many open positions, and it is on the specified date for the general launch in 2025.

“Although we are not ready to reveal everything publicly about what we build so far (and
Whoever builds it, including institutional, given the most crazy attention of these names
Attractive in society!), Here is what we can share today: We are developing what will be
Unprecedented high -sincere military simulation, starting with CQB, and expanding from there.

He said Hydratac is Portanto of “Hydra Tactical”, “Hydra” for a short period.

The first product will be a consumer version of the personal computer later this year that was built on the front end that was tested in the fighting+(and thus speed to the market), and the team is already integrating the specifications of the army for cases of use-which will increase its enhancement what the players get .

“This budget wheel effect was a major double for us in the last funding / funded / start -up project
Cape (supported by NEA, Google, others) and gained by Motorola Solutions (www.cape.com),
Where we gave the players on the computer to fly and real aircraft (virtual weapons) around them
The world with a semi -zero and control time camera, then gave the same ability
Grieham said that the military agents and the police.

The idea that became Hedra gathered after the first brainstorming sessions last year with
Some of the best minds in the military FPS, tactical archers, and Milsims militants, and FPS in general, as well as both military persons on both sides of the unified and private sectors on the table.

“The immediate and insight from Dan Ponting, the former studio head of Tribark for 20
The years of Call of Duty Black Ops, which were waiting for years to see this port,
Grieham said: “A huge batch.”

Bunting led the investment on behalf of 1 in the morning as an adventure partner, working on the Board of Directors. Basically, Gregham and Puning switch functions. In an interview, Puntng said after learning a lot of work in one studio, he wanted to share some of his experience as a consultant and advisor to many entrepreneurs.

“This was not possible without the amazing support of my founders at one in the morning, Gregory Milkin, to which I joined in March Capital to start the first game box in the second quarter of 2019, and Francisco Livello (also founder of my first company in 2004) who leave 1 In the morning VC games as its own company in Q2 2023; the founder of Par Chadha and the entire crew in Fund HGM, whose property extends more than $ B in revenue, 15k employee, and more than 20 countries;

More details about the game will come later. Since it is a new company, the team thought of artificial intelligence, but it has not yet been implemented anything that could be considered a transformative tool for the prosecution.

“Amnesty International is not yet for our purposes.” “There are interesting things. Dan and I talked about early last year about the fact that artificial intelligence can give up the sound well. In fact, the ability to give orders to teammates – this is interesting. It is not something that we will implement at any time soon because of account problems , But this is interesting. “

Assets

He was working with March Capital Gaming with Gregory (Milkeen), then one in the morning with Milken and Frank Liquido and now also raises. The team invested in 15 different games companies. But over the past four or five years as VC, Gresham has finally decided to return to startups.

Bunting and Gresham started seriously talking about the game in early 2024. Gresham started a lot of initial work in May 2024. It is an original intellectual property.

“We have already started looking at the market and knowing if there was a team that is chasing this market exactly in this way, and there was no simply,” Griemeh said. There were many independent studios in this sector. They made hundreds of millions. But there is no big industry in the Gorilla industry that follows the opportunity. So after chewing the idea for about two months, Wei said that this must be done, and no one is doing it. “

Gresham collected a team of old warriors known in the game market, but Gresham has not yet revealed their names. The goal is to charge a game later this year on Steam in early access to the computer. The company may employ a few people in the pre -launch stage.

He said: “We will be very calm with regard to telling players what the plan is and what game is.” “Pre -operation, we take advantage of some IP and technology that allows us to punch us above our weight.”

The company will make some quiet tests in the summer, and it is likely to announce the game almost the same time.

“We are going to Milsim very militants,” Griemeh said. “We refer to it for Hidera for a short time. The name is Hydra Plus Tactical Tutical Tome.”

I asked why he did not join the start.

“Where I am now in my career, I enjoy working with many different games makers, which I had never had, because he was always focused on the call of duty,” said Poning said. “For me it was a way to enable the next generation of talents that will be, establish studios, reach new ideas and launch great games.”

He sees this as a little return, and begins with Greasham. Pouning looked at the start of his own studio, but he said: “This is not what leads me now. Louis and I have a great partnership. We are friends in addition to being business partners.”