However, the communities don’t match the hype in terms of games’ popularity. Overall, the number of users is in the millions. Game Jolt has evolved into a collection of more than 40,000 online gaming communities, with its more than 500,000 people. She decided to be more of a public person and be a positive force in this industry, so that other women and girls can participate in the industry because they’ll see me here. That year, GamerGate has become a worldwide success story, with Yaprak DeCarmine battling to establish a community gaming site. It was a terrible time to take that leap, without a minimum security net. Yaprak and David DeCarmine are the leaders of Game Jolt. They married in 2014, and Yaprak convinced David that they should quit their jobs to play full-time on Game Jolt. She learned how to speak English in part by playing video games. Yaprak grew up in Turkey and immigrated to the United States after playing games with her younger brother. While playing games and working at the tech firm Zulily, David DeCarmine met Yaprak DeCarmine’s future wife. Since then, Game Jolt has experienced so much growth. It grew slowly.Īccording to CEO Yaprak DeCarmine in an interview with GamesBeat, it was only a bunch of hobbyists playing games back then. He created Game Jolt (under a different name) as a site where gamers could discover and play indie games and enjoy each other’s company in forums and chat rooms. The money round marks a big milestone for a firm that has a long history and is notable for having a female CEO and husband-and-wife leadership.ĭavid DeCarmine, a Seattle-based firm, was founded in 2002, when he was 14 in New York. Game Jolt has raised $2.6 million to expand its social platform, where millions of Gen Z gamers and creators share and explore content around their favorite video games.
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