New "feature suite" uses AI to help create scenes and stories.
November 22, 2023
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Yahaha Studios :
YAHAHA Studios launches Text2Game, an AI feature suite that enables creators and developers to build immersive creation, generates 3D game scenes, and game stories in seconds using just a few text prompts.
YAHAHA's Text2Game AI Assist,'Theo', can be used by novice game developers and creators of all levels to build scenes and even generate gameplay, improving game creation workflow and allowing them to do more, in less time.
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 [Helsinki, Finland]: YAHAHA Studios, a global game development platform, has introduced Text2Game, a new AI feature suite that brings AI-generated game environments, characters, and more to the fingertips of creators and developers. With just a few text prompts, creators can now flesh out ideas, gain inspiration, or experiment with dynamic AI-generated environments and characters in just seconds.
Following a year-long Alpha phase, the YAHAHA AI feature suite comprises of two main aspects:
YAHAHA-official AI games: AI-Asylum, its first AI game, was released on Itch.io in July 2023.
AI Assistant featuring Text2Game Co-Pilot and ChatBot Theo, accompanied by AI Gameplay equipped with built-in templates.
AI generated content (AIGC) within YAHAHA is powered by a cutting-edge platform that enables creators to build immersive and captivating games and environments using just a few text prompts. This valuable asset locator, swiftly assisting users in locating their desired game assets. Through conversational interactions, Theo adeptly filters through a wide array of relevant assets that align with the distinctive settings of users' games - allowing any type of game creation to be used by novice game developers and creators of all levels to build scenes and even generate gameplay. For more advanced creators, it can improve game creation workflow in order to achieve better efficiency - allowing them to do more, in less time.
Theo collaborates with its creator, turning text prompts into automatic environment generation, which can then be fine-tuned with additional text prompts where necessary. Theo understands natural language and ‘grows with’ developers as it’s used, allowing creators to spend more of their development time focusing on game mechanics, storytelling, and other aspects of game development.
Backed by investment giants Alibaba and Temasek Holdings, and received its latest $40 million round of Series A+ funding at the end of 2022. This financial backing is a testament to the success of YAHAHA Studios' AI-generated content (AIGC) platform, which enables creators to build immersive and captivating games and environments using just a few text prompts. With YAHAHA's AI assistant, Theo, creators of all levels can now build scenes and even generate gameplay in just seconds, improving game creation workflow and allowing them to do more, in less time. YAHAHA Studios is dedicated to providing creators and players the opportunity to create their own worlds, games, and social experiences through the power of UGC, and hopes to inspire game designers of all levels and at all stages of their game development career.
YAHAHA Studios' AI feature suite is designed to simplify the game development process by making it more intuitive, minimising the need for pre-existing coding skills, and enabling creators to develop game concepts which may have previously been too complex. YAHAHA’s is focussed on continuous growth and improvement of Theo - AI assistance, which is currently in its 1.0 stage. YAHAHA Studios is dedicated to providing creators and players the opportunity to create their own worlds, games, and social experiences through the power of UGC.
Pengfei Zhang, COO at YAHAHA, commented on the release: “With YAHAHA AI, YAHAHA reaffirms its commitment to supporting and inspiring game designers of all levels and at all stages of their game development career. We hope that game developers will use YAHAHA AI to create even more impressive games in an increasingly seamless and efficient manner, and eventually even create titles which will compete with AAA releases from big studios. When we say that ‘anyone can YAHAHA’, we really do mean that: our expectation is that the next generation will use YAHAHA as their training ground to a fulfilling career in game design.”
YAHAHA AI is available now. For more information and access to the tool please visit: https://yahaha.com/.
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About Yahaha Studios:
Yahaha Studios was founded in 2020 by a pioneering group of Unity veterans, with a mission to democratise 3D games content creation and consumption. Establishing a pioneering world-class user-generated content (UGC) no-code creation platform for 3D interactive content, YAHAHA empowers both developers and players at all levels to build, publish, host, and operate multiplayer games. With one click publishing available for all to play, making games and content creation is easy and accessible to all.
Headquartered in Finland and with offices in Korea and China, the team holds a unique perspective on growth and prioritises inclusivity, diversity and innovation in an open culture. To extend the parameters of the gaming industry is no easy task, but with the billions of pieces of content emerging in various forms across the platform, YAHAHA is steadily gaining traction among creators. Supporting a virtual world with cutting edge technology, the YAHAHA community is building and serving millions of creators to reach their full potential.
YAHAHA is an organic ecosystem of user-generated content that seamlessly integrates reality and virtuality, providing a space that prioritises the freedom and limitless possibilities of creation. YAHAHA gives users the power of a game engine without the need to be a creative expert, with its low-code editor, ready-built asset library and all the tools needed to integrate 3D art and animation. With YAHAHA creators can generate multiplayer 3D interactive content quickly and easily.
YAHAHA is the next generation of entertainment.
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