GetZoot

Introducing ZOOT! My long time colleague and friend John Cahill and I are excited to introduce the public preview of ZOOT (www.getzoot.us), our next generation social gaming platform, including sweepstakes rewards options. John and I have worked in video games for many years, including developing leading casino sweepstakes app Luckyland Slots a while back, and we saw a great opportunity to bring back the fun, simple gameplay of early Flash games, but to integrate a better revenue model with Sweepstakes options for those who participate. Our early tests show that this approach is strongly resonating with our target demographic. This is an initial launch. Next product steps this Summer for ZOOT are to offer more payment options, to increase the number and quality of games on the site, and to introduce additional social features. On the financing front, we'll expand our Seed SAFE shortly, and we will raise an A round this Fall once we have proven out the unit economics, but early signs are good. Please reach out if interested in learning more. We have been running fast and lean for the past 6 months, but we couldn't have done it without help. I want to thank our incredible tech team in Europe, our initial investors Kevin Ryan, Chris Grove and Vicens Marti, plus our advisors Zack Zeldin, Billy Levy, Alay Joglekar and Melissa Blau. On the payments/banking front, we enjoy the support of Aeropay, UBank and Lexicon Bank, plus Allen Ambrogio's team at Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, LLC. Finally we can't forget our gaming legal team at Ifrah Law and our corporate legal team at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Now, as my test group have been saying for the past couple of weeks, "let's get Zooting"... www.getzoot.us

Launching SQUADS on ZOOT - V1 Platform is Done and Dusted! So today our amazing GetZoot team completed the V1 of our gaming platform by releasing Squads (aka Clans, Teams, etc). We had agreed 12 months ago to build a cutting edge Sweeps platform equivalent to a Supercell platform, with all of the social features that normal social gamers would expect, including: - in app messaging - chat functionality - daily and weekly quests - squads - leaderboards - Level Up/VIP - avatars (basic and premium) - Telegram platform for non-US gamers + 40 amazing ZOOT Originals Games Now they are fully launched, and it's time to polish/optimize those features as we launch our A round financing, integrate new 3rd party content, and focus on getting to profitability with that financing round. I want to thank our incredible team, our investors, and our partners for helping us to get to this point - it's going to be a great 2025! Come see me at NEXT.io - The World’s iGaming Community NYC if you want to discuss partnering. getzoot.us https://t.me/getZOOT_bot

New Enigma Lakes Studios Games Launches! We offer an innovative social gaming experience at ZOOT (www.getzoot.us), involving great arcade games and a growing array of social features such as Chat, Messaging, Daily/Weekly Quests, Video Sharing and Leveling Up, with more to come as we continue to bring the best features from mobile-social gaming to our site and to our gamers. However, our less understood strength is in our Enigma Lakes Studio team, which is one of the most productive Instant Games producers in the sector, having already delivered 30 games this year, a mixture of new genres and interesting spins on classic genres, with at least 4 more games coming before EOY. New games this week include: "Basketball Plinko" Basketball Plinko is an updated version of the classic genre, but with basketballs replacing the marbles, and with nets replacing the slots, along with a great soundtrack and night/day lighting, depending on your time zone. This has quickly become our most popular game, showing how we can bring a bit of video game innovation to a popular, but staid genre. "Zarbles" Zarbles is a genre-bending game borrowed from a popular activity we saw on Tik Tok, which is choosing which marbles will win a multi-stage race down through a wide variety of obstacles, with inspiration coming from Pachinko, Pinball, and even Donkey Kong. We continue to evolve this game, but early feedback is that it's different from any other game in our vertical, which is what we're trying to do with our new genre games. Come check them out at ?? www.getzoot.us

Launching Quests in ZOOT! Today we launched our a new feature in ZOOT (www.getzoot.us), which are Daily and Weekly Quests, similar to what one would see in a game from Supercell or King games. We continue to bring features from social & mobile games to the category as we know that gamers love them, and that they can be powerful engagement drivers. This is a key benefit from us building our own platform vs licensing it from a 3rd party supplier. More to come...

Introducing our newest game genre at ZOOT (www.getzoot.us) - it's Capitol KO, a sweeps-based fighting game inspired by our love of arcade games at ZOOT. Play as either #Kamala or #Trump (with more avatars coming) to decide who should lead the United States. ??

At ZOOT (www.getzoot.us), we are back with our newly (and hopefully final) revised "Vice Presidential Battle" game, where you can play either as the?#carhartt-wearing?Tim Walz?, or as the couch-loving JD Vance Come see which will win the race, and you can even win money doing it! https://lnkd.in/eeNageZE

Increasing the Fidelity in the Sweeps Video Game Genre One of our goals in launching ZOOT (www.getzoot.us) was to help evolve what we see as a fairly rudimentary current state of game production. Many of the most successful Instant games have very simple graphics, limited/no audio, and feel less like a video game than just a Click to Win/Lose mechanic. We can't ignore that currently satisfied audience (see our "classic games"), but the history of all game genres shows that fidelity increases over time, which increases player engagement, and which draws in more gamers. See early versions of Atari games vs today's Fortnite One way we're doing this is by experimenting with richer, Unity-based games that both provide elements of interactivity and a more engaging interface - See the Cash Stack and Sub Hunt links below. These are early examples and will deepen over time, but at GetZoot, we firmly believe that our sector has to keep increasing the quality of the game experience in order to drive greater adoption, and we're going to keep driving in that direction. https://lnkd.in/eisX6peG https://lnkd.in/eHewTaKf

Launching ZOOT's First Multiplayer Game: Money Heist! At ZOOT (www.getzoot.us), we understand that we need to keep evolving our games to deepen the overall experience, whether it's higher audio & graphic fidelity, new game play loops, or additional competitive & social elements. The history of game platforms is that they start simple (e.g. Zynga's Mafia Wars) and evolve into much more complex games (Supercell's Clash of Clans), and the sweeps video gaming sector should be no different. The good news is the cost of game development is quite low, so we can launch a game every week, whether it's related to current events (see our #Kamala vs #Trump game), or just new graphical treatments and features for different audiences. That's why I'm excited to introduce Money Heist, our first multiplayer game. It's a Crash-game variant where you can race against another player, and whomever lasts the longest without being "Busted" is announced as the winner in our site-wide chat window so that everyone else can see who won, as you can see below. It's the weekend, so it's time to see if you can out run the Cops in Money Heist! https://lnkd.in/efd6Q_Bb (Linked In browser is sometimes a bit flaky so go direct if possible) And yes, I'm still formulating which game concept we should do for "Childless Cat Ladies" or for the David O. Sacks vs Parker Conrad "feud" - feel free to ping me with ideas :)