Gamefam
Gamefam is an American video game developer and is the first professional company to utilize "Roblox" as a video game development platform. History. Gamefam was founded in 2019 in Los Angeles, California, United States by Joe Ferencz, the current CEO. Ferencz was originally involved with bringing Hot Wheels into the "Forza" series and "Rocket League", and while doing so, he was watching "Roblox"'s success as a free-to-play video game platform. Explaining his reason for founding Gamefam, Ferencz told "TechCrunch" “"Roblox" truly is the metaverse for this younger generation. What that means is that each game needs  to have a very distinctive and attractive immersion to it, in a way that mobile free-to-play doesn’t." The company is described by Ferencz as the “first and only fully-dedicated, professional game publishing company on Roblox.” In November 2020, Gamefam partnered with Mattel to develop "Hot Wheels Open World" on "Roblox", which is a Hot Wheels-themed open world racing game. In October 2021, Gamefam partnered with WowWee to create toys for their popular "Roblox" game "Twilight Daycare". In November 2021, Gamefam announced in an interview with Forbes partnered with WildBrain to start integrating various brands into  their portfolio of "Roblox" titles. In March 2022 Gamefam announced they have raised $25 million in its Series A funding round, which was led by Konvoy Ventures and participated in by Play Ventures, Makers Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners and Galaxy Interactive. This has made Gamefam the highest valued publisher on the Roblox platform. Games. Gamefam's current games include: