Digit Game Studios, the Irish games developer behind the popular online multiplayer game ‘Kings of the Realm’, has raised another $2.7m from US gaming firm Scopely.

Allotment filings by Digit show that two payments of $1.33m were received earlier this month, bringing to more than $6m the amount invested by Scopely in the Dublin-based firm since 2015.

Scopely is headquartered in Los Angeles and specialises in touchscreen games for smartphones. The company was founded in 2011 and since then has built up a partner network with games development studios, among them Digit.

Scopely announced in 2015 that it had agreed a multi-million dollar, multi-game publishing deal with Digit. The Dublin business has raised significant funding to date from other sources too – a year after it was founded, it had already secured €2.7m.

Digit followed up an initial €800,000 seed round with a second round that attracted €1.9m. Both rounds were led by Delta Partners, with ACT Venture Capital also investing via the AIB Startup Accelerator Fund.

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Digit was founded by Richard Barnell, Martin Frain, Fergus Duggan and David McGovern. The company’s flagship game is a strategy-type offering in the mould of Age of Empires, which can be played on multiple devices.

The company is said to be planning a new game launch this year. The most recent account filings for Digit are for 2015, when it booked a loss of €1.7m, bringing accumulated losses to €6.5m. The same year, it announced that it would triple its headcount to 60.

Kings of the Realm is available as an Android or iOS app and works on a freemium model, meaning that it is free to download but earns revenue from in-app purchases, such as weapons or other items. According to Google Play, they can range in price from €5 to €110 per item.

Photo: Some of the Digit Games team