Hydratac It is a small company in which only seven people work on a “extremely realistic” recent generation shooter game and collected $ 3 million.
The company is run by the former Venture Capital Louis Greshham and supported by the former co-head studio Treyarch Studio, a given rise up, which is a member of the board of Hydratac. They mainly modified the roles in the means of reviving this studio.
“As a VC, I joked that I had a lot of time to make even scale with time
The investor’s website, taking into account 15 years before VC as an entrepreneur/exec/operator/Builder
Many co -founders, Google X, Riot Games and Deloitte, said Gresham. “Today I’m delighted with the announcement that these scales have rejected the other way – I return to entrepreneurship after spending almost five years as a co -founder/partner in 1 am VC Gaming VC and our home company March Capital.”
He added: “Dan rebellion (earlier Call of Duty) will be my member of the board. We build an extremely realistic military simulation, with initial emphasis on the battle in the short circuit. ”
Rebellion spent his profession on the construction of the Call of Duty franchise in Treyarch, where he got as much as the studio and helped to create games resembling Call of Duty franchises: Black Ops and Zombies. He left Activision among the confusion that the company passed in the era. Rebellion didn’t speak publicly about these circumstances, but there have been many written about it.
Gresham said that working on Hydratac began last 12 months and realized that “it was simply too massive and too perfect that we could not plant the flag in the gap.”
First person shooters are a huge market, the team had extensive experience and interesting technology and product. So he pulled the trigger and joined them as a CEO.
At the end of last 12 months, the company collected $ 3 million initial capital from the leading VC Gaming VC and HGM Fund. The team has seven full -time people and has the first iteration of the product up and operating internally. Gresham said that the company is testing every day, has several open items and is in keeping with the public launch schedule in 2025.
“Although we are not able to present every part in public about what we are building (and
Who builds it, including my co -founder, taking into account much more crazy attention
Attract the community!), Here’s what we are able to divide today: we are developing what’s going to occur
Unprecedented military simulation with high loyalty, starting with CQB and from that point.
He said that Hydratac was in short “Hydra Tactical”, “Hydra”.
The first product will likely be the release of computer consumers this 12 months, which is built on the reserved, tested by the battle of Frontend+Backend (hence the speed on the market), and the team already incorporates the army specifications for their use-what will increase much more. What players can experience.
“This flyer effect was a huge multiplier for us during my last startup financed / co -founder
Cape (supported by Nea, Google, others) and purchased by Motorola Solutions (www.cope.com),
where we gave players the opportunity to fly and fight dogs of real drones (virtual weapons)
The world with a camera and delay control in almost zero, and then gave our own possibilities
Military and police clients – said Gresham.
The concept that became a hydra gathered after the first sessions of the brainstorming last 12 months with
Some of the best minds in military FPS, tactical Strzelce, hardcore business Milsims and FPS in general, in addition to military people on the table each from the uniformed and private sectors.
“Direct enthusiasm and insight a given rise up, former head of the Treyarch studio for 20
Years of the Call of Duty Black Ops titles, which for years waited to see it made, were
Huge strengthening – said Gresham.
Rebellion conducted the investment on behalf of 1 am as a partner’s partner and sits on the board. Basically, Gresham and rise up modified their jobs. In an interview, he said a rise up after learning so much work for one studio, he desires to share his experiences as VC and an adviser to many game entrepreneurs.
“This would not be possible without the amazing support of my 1 in the morning Gregory Milken, whom I joined in March Capital to start our first game fund in the fourth quarter of 2019 and Francisco Liquido (also co -founder of my first company in 2004), which he threw 1 In the morning VC as our own company with us in the second quarter of 2023; The founder of Khadha’s pair and the entire crew in HGM Fund, whose shares include over BB in revenues, 15,000 employees and over 20 countries; and the legion of others who devoted their knowledge, mentoring and support for us away, “said Gresham.
More details about the game will appear later. Because this is a recent company, the team thought about AI, but it doesn’t implement anything yet that will be considered a transformational AI tool.
“Ai, it’s just not yet for our purposes,” said Gresham. “There are interesting things. Dan and I talked about the beginning of last year about the fact that AI can interpole a voice well. In fact, the opportunity to give commands to teams – it is interesting. This is not something that we intend to implement in the near future due to computing problems, but it is interesting. “
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He collaborated with March Capital Gaming from Gregory (Milken), and then 1 in the morning with Milken, Frank Liquido, and now also. The team has invested in 15 different game corporations. But for the last 4 or five years as VC Gresham, he finally decided to return to the startups.
Rebellion and Gresham began to speak seriously about the game at the starting of 2024. Gresham began many first works in May 2024. This is original mental property.
“We actually started by looking at the market and checking if there was a team in this way, and there was simply no,” said Gresham. “There were many independent studies in this segment. They made hundreds of millions. But no main industry gorilla lasted by the way. So after chewing the idea for about two months together, Wee said that you just have to do it and nobody does it. “
Gresham gathered a team of recognizable veterans on the shooter market, but Gresham does not yet reveal his names. The goal is to send the game at the end of this 12 months at Steam in early access to the computer. The company can employ a few more people at the stage before starting.
“We will be very quiet when it comes to informing players what the plan is and what the game will be,” he said. “We initially use some IP arbitration and technologies that allow us to hit very, very much above our weight.”
The company will conduct quiet tests in the summer and will probably announce the game at the same time.
“We’re going extremely hardcore Milsim,” said Gresham. “We refer to Hydra in short. The name is Hydra plus the tactical Mushed. “
I asked Rebeting why he didn’t join the startup.
“Where I am in my career now, I like to work with many different game creators that I have never had before, because it has always been so narrowly focused on Call of Duty,” said rise up. “For me, VC was really a way to strengthen the next generation of talent, founders and come up with new ideas and publish cool games.”
He considers it a approach to surrender a little and starts from Gresham. Rebellion was considering starting his own studio, but he said: “This is not what is driving me now. Lewis and I have a great partnership. We are friends in addition to being business partners. “
