Wonderland and Robot Invader revealed that their two companies have merged, creating a new company called Create Worlds. This new venture brings together the former’s Wonderland Engine and the latter’s Story Machine to create a suite of tools specifically for developers in the web gaming space. Create Worlds is dedicated to making the space more accessible for developers, eliminating common problems and bottlenecks.
The two companies have collaborated in the past, releasing Dead Secret Circle Web, a port of a Meta Quest VR game to web. Create Worlds is working on other projects, including a web-based revival of puzzle game Rise of the Blobs as playable alpha.
Jonathan Hale, Wonderland’s founder and now Create World’s CEO, said in a statement, “We see the web as an opportunity to bring new momentum to Robot Invader’s portfolio of games. At the same time, porting the games strengthens our developer tools Wonderland Engine and Story Machine and showcases their potential.”
Betting on web games
Hale told GamesBeat, “Bringing together Wonderland and Robot Invader means we can now offer developers tooling to create both 3D and 2D games… Our tooling is highly optimized for web performance: fast 2D & 3D rendering performance, including iOS Safari, and very fast loading times, small downloads, downloaded continuously. Their powerful development workflows, like packaging projects in less than one second and instantly launching on device, empower developers to focus on their tasks efficiently, especially when compared to Unity Web.
Web gaming developers face significant challenges, including distribution bottlenecks, distribution bottlenecks and inaccessible tools. Create Worlds will help developers overcome these by simplifying the publishing process and optimizing their games.
Hale told GamesBeat, “There are clear signs that web gaming is about to blow up! Traditional web gaming portals like Poki, Crazy Games, Yandex Games, and others have tens of millions of MAUs. And now massive consumer products like Discord, YouTube, and Telegram embed their own web based gaming platforms. The 99B mobile gaming market is going through systemic shifts that web gaming is well poised to profit from. The web has lower user acquisition costs as players dive into games without installs, which gives them a big advantage over native. With the fidelity gap closing between native and web, web games will outgrow native games quickly.”