Seattle-based video game startup Reflection Games has raised $2.1 million, according to a Wednesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The filing noted the money came in the form of equity funding, and the company is looking to raise an additional $1.9 million. Reflection Games is raising money as it develops a mobile game called Mutant Forge.
In an email to the Business Journal, Reflection Games co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Patrick Wylie said the company is "heads-down here working on our first launch and will have more information about our company and game closer to our worldwide launch."
According to the Reflection Games website, Mutant Forge is a real-time battle game, and the company is conducting play-testing now. The company was founded in 2021, according to its LinkedIn page.
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On its website, Reflection Games says the company just built out an office. In the SEC filing, Reflection Games lists its headquarters as 5001 25th Ave. NE in Seattle, near University Village.
Reflection Games CEO and co-founder Paul Thelen also founded and formerly served as CEO of Seattle-based Big Fish Games. The Australian gaming company Aristocrat acquired Big Fish Games for $990 million in 2018, after which Thelen left Big Fish Games.
Wylie, meanwhile, spent about 13 years at Big Fish Games before co-founding Reflection Games.
Reflection Games is raising money as others in the video game space are facing hard times.
Bellevue-based Hidden Path Entertainment laid off 44 employees in February, while Seattle-based Threshold Games shut down completely that same month. Bellevue-based Bungie, which is the studio behind Halo and Destiny, laid off employees in October. Amazon conducted two rounds of layoffs in its gaming division in 2023, including over 180 employees in November.
