Hearth Studios raises $22M and reveals Ember Engine for real‑time mobile games

Gaming · 4 min read

Ember prioritizes low memory usage, deterministic physics, and an editor that runs on PCs and tablets. Hearth built the engine with a component system and native bindings for scripting in Kotlin and Swift, targeting smaller teams that need performant, cross‑platform releases.

The funding was led by Makers Fund and joined by Bitkraft and several game industry veterans. Hearth Studios plans to offer both an open‑source runtime and paid cloud build services, with revenue coming from engine licensing and optional cloud CI.

Several indie studios will receive early access and revenue share incentives, and Hearth announced a game jam later this summer to showcase titles built on Ember. The commercial release is slated for Q1 2027.