GCB Inside – with Muni Vondi, CEO of Klang Games

2013, Iceland: Three self-proclaimed nerds and hardcore gamers have a vision. For years, Mundi Vondi, Oddur Snaer Magússon, and Ívar Emilsson have been working as developers and designers for other major game studios. But that’s about to change. They move to Berlin and found Klang Games GmbH. Their goal: to revolutionize the way we play.

13 years later, Klang Games has raised over 80 million euros in investments to redefine the boundaries of the online multiplayer (MMO) genre through advanced cloud technologies. Among the investors are renowned names such as Makers Fund, Animoca Brands, and Supercell.

Here in the new “GCB INSIDE” CEO Vondi talks about this journey, his plans for the future, and, of course, his “baby”: “Seed.”

This massive simulation MMO was developed in collaboration with Google Cloud. It completely does away with traditional non-player characters and instead focuses on players guiding small, highly intelligent characters—known as “Seedlings”—through their virtual lives. In the simulation, players must manage basic human needs, interact with one another, and build a functioning civilization.

Wait, that wasn‘t really an introduction.
My name is Mundi, hi! I‘m CEO here at Klang Games. We are a games company in Berlin, Kreuzberg. Right on Kotti. We‘re about 80, 90 people or so. We also have an office in Madrid.

And we are building “Seed”, which is a kind of first of a kind simulation, like a multiplayer or massively multiplayer simulation. The spark or the inspiration we had comes probably from the years when my two co-founders, Ívar and Oddur, were working at CCP Games in Iceland, building a game called “EVE Online”. And we‘ve seen in “EVE” some stories that the players really generate and create and gameplay that comes along with that that is far beyond what studios are able to build. Because the players, when they are not just making the content, but they are a part of the content itself.

So we‘ve been working on “Seed” for a long time. We most kind of have a way of creating a social situation where you‘re not necessarily fighting the other player. You‘re kind of more just there in the same space. And that creates lots of fertile ground for friendship forming and relationship forming in general. And there‘s a lot of people putting their minds together and somehow in this mixture, something very elusive and quite brilliant comes out with this human society, which we don‘t really understand.

When we started talking about it, it was this, you know, pie in the sky dream idea. But we started believing in it so much that we ended up leaving our jobs and our current situations back then, and building Klang here in Berlin. But we knew that “Seed” was the mission we came to do. So we just started building a prototype of “Seed” with hardly anything. Then, investors started to see what we were onto there. And, you know, very slowly we started to be able to raise funding around it. And then more and more as we started to prove this out, more and more. We‘re releasing this summer after all of these years. We are, of course, both excited and nervous and everything in between.

So we kind of started looking across the world and identifying: what are the potential cities that we could start flying from. And we didn‘t have a lot of money to start. And also we wanted to be in kind of an internationally recognizable city. And Berlin kind of matched those two things. I think all of us were excited by the idea of joining a very cultural capital. And I think “Seed” as a game about humanity, human society, all of our diversity and kind of those classes, I think Berlin is a matching part of different cultures and ethnicities and ideas and, it‘s just the perfect kind of spot for all of those things to come together.

Published 22 July 2026