
A $10-an-hour support job opened the door. Two acquired startups and one creator platform later, Frederic Descamps is still betting that the interesting part of a game begins when players get their hands on it.
Manticore Games is a San Mateo game studio behind Core, a free platform that lets people build, share, and play online multiplayer games without deep art or coding skills. Founded in 2016 by industry veterans Frederic Descamps and Jordan Maynard, the company built accessible creation tools on top of Unreal Engine and raised roughly $164M from backers including Epic Games, Benchmark, and SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 to power what it calls a 'games multiverse.'