Core Loop
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2020
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 2
About Core Loop
Core Loop is an independent video game studio founded in 2020 that develops massively multiplayer online games for mobile and PC. Its work focuses on persistent fantasy worlds, cooperative play and player-driven virtual economies. The studio brings together game engineering, systems design and art through a distributed team working across the United States and internationally.
Its flagship game, World Eternal Online, also published on mobile stores as World Eternal: Co-op RPG, is a fantasy action MMORPG set in the living world of Althea. Core Loop develops and publishes the game across Android, iOS and PC. As of October 2026, the project was undergoing continuous open testing, content updates and live operations.
Cooperative play and evolving worlds
The game combines real-time boss battles and multi-tier PvE challenges with hero collection, customization and guild progression. Extraction-style survival events add another form of challenge alongside cooperative combat and raid mechanics. These systems sit within a broader sandbox design centered on evolving worlds and economic activity shaped by players.
Core Loop draws inspiration from persistent-world games including Ultima Online, RuneScape and EVE Online. Its approach emphasizes community-driven changes to the world, shared progression and virtual economies rather than treating the environment as a fixed backdrop. Cross-platform architecture supports the studio’s focus on bringing this MMO experience to both mobile devices and PC.
Development and ongoing operation
The studio’s capabilities span full-cycle game development, multiplayer engineering and backend infrastructure for persistent online worlds. Its ongoing work also includes live content management, community building and player engagement. Together, these functions support both the construction of the game and its continuing operation as players participate in testing and updates.
Core Loop operates as a unified, privately held studio. Its development model is fully remote, with engineering, design and artistic contributors collaborating internationally.
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Founders and leadership
- Co-founder Vincenzo Alagna is identified as Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer, Secretary and a director. Before Core Loop, he served as Chief Technology Officer and President at Machine Zone, directing technical infrastructure behind games including Game of War: Fire Age and Mobile Strike.
- Co-founder Daniel Ming Chao is identified as President, Chief Product Officer and a director. His earlier work included serving as Lead Game Designer at Funzio and developing the decentralized strategy game CryptoAssault.
- The report also identifies Kenneth Lamb and Galaxy Interactive’s Richard Kim as directors.
Financing milestones
- In September 2020, Core Loop completed a $2.4 million seed round led by Sisu Game Ventures, 1Up Ventures and Galaxy Interactive.
- In November 2021, it announced a $12.2 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Galaxy Interactive, Initialized Capital and SIP Global. The report places cumulative equity backing at approximately $14.6 million.
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Where Core Loop is based
- 1901 Harrison Street, Suite 1100, Oakland, CA 94612, United StatesOakland, California, United States
Oakland office
HeadquartersAbout this office
Registered corporate and administrative headquarters in a serviced facility hosted by Regus Executive Suites. Development operates through a distributed remote team.
- California, United States
California, United States
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