Shark Punch raises $1.2M to fix game discovery with its Playfield community platform

In an increasingly hectic game industry, discovery is a big problem. Players have trouble finding great new works, and developers worry about their games getting noticed.

Finnish developer Shark Punch says it can fix the problem of game discovery with its Playfield community platform, which enters open beta testing today. Shark Punch just raised $1.2 million in seed funding to help create the platform that it says will connect gamers and developers from the very inception of a new title — something that’s key, as digital gaming brought in $1.2 billion alone in December 2014.