by WRAL TechWire — May 12, 2021 . RALEIGH – Video game startup Lightforge Games, armed with $5 million raised in equity financing from 10 investors in December, and equipped with team of game developers, seeks to change how role-playing games (RPGs) are played. The team, led by CEO Matt Schembari, who is the former director of user interface for Epic Games, is working on what it called in a statement “a new cross-platform social video game where players have the power to create worlds.” The company was co-founded by gaming industry veterans Schembari, Dan Hertzka, Nathan Fairbanks, Glenn Rane, and Marc Hutcheson, and now includes six additional developers.