BBC Worldwide invests in cross-platform dev tool Spaceport

Cross-platform development tool Spaceport has closed a second round of funding, with the firm looking to further expand the technology behind the platform.
Money from this latest injection will see Spaceport add staff to its team, as well as develop both its HTML5 and Flash compatible technology to enable developers to create games for multiple platforms simultaneously.
Worldwide appeal
Joining Spaceport's band of investors as a result is BBC Worldwide, which has released almost 40 titles selling 6 million units in both physical and digital form in the past two years.
This is no one-way deal, however. BBC Worldwide plans on using Spaceport's cross-platform tools to both lower its development costs and cut development time.
"BBC Worldwides strategic commitment in our technology is another step towards the Spaceport platform becoming the industry-standard for cross-platform mobile game development," said Spaceport chairman Peter Relan.
"We are thrilled with the opportunity to work with a globally-renowned organisation such as BBC Worldwide - whose reach spans 200 countries as well as hundreds of millions of consumers - in order to help leverage their major media properties."
The latest round follows a $1 million strong investment by incubator YouWeb back in August 2011.