Playful is an independent game studio co-founded by Paul Bettner and Katy Drake Bettner that develops Wildcard, a crypto-optional PvP collectible-card arena game. Playful's Twitter Score is 10 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #92,559 among 493,952 tracked accounts.
Playful raised $46 million in a funding round announced in June 2022, with backing from Paradigm, Griffin Gaming Partners, Polygon Labs, and Sabrina Hahn. The studio is also affiliated with The Wildcard Alliance. Playful announced significant layoffs in January 2020, citing shifts in the global video-game marketplace, though the studio continued operating.
Playful has been active in the broader crypto gaming space through Wildcard's evolving blockchain integration. The game's Wildpass NFTs migrated from Polygon to Ethereum mainnet, and as of February 2025 the studio was planning a token launch. Playful has published 1,150 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 14 accounts a total of 18 times, reflecting ongoing attention from the crypto and gaming communities.
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The accounts that follow Playful include 28 founders, 6 angel investors and 14 influencers, among them Polygon, Marguerite, Gabby Dizon, BETTY, Yellowpanther Prediction Arc and Eden.