We closed our Seed round to be the TikTok for games, and changed our name to Remix

A year ago we raised a Pre-Seed on a sentence: making a game should be as easy as posting one. Today we're announcing our Seed round, led by Archetype (Archetype on X), with Variant, Coinbase Ventures, Lemniscap, and Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron participating. And we're doing something founders are usually told never to do: we changed our name. Farcade is now Remix.

Why rename a thing that's working

Because the name was a cage. "Farcade" said Farcaster arcade: clever, niche, and quietly limiting. The platform outgrew it. Remix isn't a Farcaster app anymore; it's a game feed live on iOS, Android, World App, Telegram, Farcaster, and the web. The new name says what the product actually does: you play a game, you remix it, you ship your version. One game becomes a hundred forks.

A rename mid-traction is scary. We did it anyway, because the wrong name taxes you forever and the right one compounds.

"TikTok for games" is not a pitch line

When Blockworks called us "TikTok for games," some people heard gimmick. We hear the whole thesis. TikTok didn't win because the videos were better. It won because the distance between make and watched-by-strangers collapsed to nothing. That's the unlock for games too.

On Remix you describe the game you want, the AI builds it with you in seconds (vibe coding), and it drops straight into a feed people already scroll. No engine. No app-store gauntlet for every update. No begging an algorithm you can't see. Compare that to the traditional path, where a Unity build, store review, and an ASO consultant stand between you and your first player. We deleted the line.

What the money is for

Three things, in order:

• Make the creation loop feel like magic. The gap between "I have an idea" and "people are playing it" should be minutes, not months. Every dollar of friction we remove there pays us back in creators.
• Make the feed worth opening daily. Categories, leagues, tournaments, creator rewards: the stuff that turns a catalog into a habit.
• Pay creators for plays, not for going viral on someone else's app. Boosts, weekly rewards, jam payouts. The flywheel only spins if making something good actually pays.

The bigger picture

The mobile gaming economy is built on free-to-play loops engineered to extract: energy timers, lives that recharge, a failed level that becomes a $2.99 decision. We think the next era gets built by millions of people with taste and no engine experience, earning when others play. AI is what makes that possible; a feed is what makes it spread.

Huge thanks to Archetype, Variant, Coinbase Ventures, Lemniscap, and Justin Waldron for betting on the version of gaming where the gate is gone.

Now go make something. It takes a sentence.