Hidden Door Nets $2 Million for Social AI Narrative Platform

The new technology studio, Hidden Door, announced it has received $2 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Northzone with the participation of such investors as Makers Fund, Betaworks, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and Homebrew. Individual investors like Roblox CTO Dan Sturman and Delicious founder Joshua Schacter also took part in the round.

The funding will go towards creating a social game platform that uses AI to help build narratives allowing players to remix interactive graphic novels and share the results. The platform is set to be launched in alpha in early 2022 being available for players aged 9 and over.

Talking about the platform, the newly-formed studio shared: "With the storytelling vibe of a tabletop roleplaying game – including a playful AI narrator – anyone can improvise endless adventures together with a host of responsively generated NPCs, items, and locations. These, in turn, can be collected, traded, and shared with friends to remix into new worlds and stories."

Hidden Door also noted that at launch, the platform will feature an initial collection of original playable worlds and later will expand with a marketplace for content from professional writers, artists, as well as other players.

Makers Fund founding partner Jay Chi commented: "Our investment in Hidden Door was driven by their vision for a dynamic and playful narrative platform that brings people together around the magic of telling stories. Hidden Door is well underway with a solution for what long seemed to be the impossible problem of creating an AI that can have realistic conversations with players and invent a narrative along the way."

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