Verse8: A powerful tool for creators to lead high-quality games.

Verse8's mission: To eliminate the technical barriers to creativity.

"To enable anyone, regardless of their technical background, to create immersive and complete online games"—this is the founding principle of Verse8.

The platform aims to replace complex code and art processes with simple natural language, enabling teachers to create a historical role-playing game (RPG) in minutes or allowing children to quickly create visual novels.

However, in reality, achieving this "Prompt-to-Play" gaming experience often requires the support of a complex backend system, as well as a world-class model that coordinates the generation of text, audio, video, and code.

To support this vision, the biggest challenge the Verse8 team initially faced was fragmented infrastructure—the team needed to manually integrate APIs and cutting-edge models from different vendors to achieve optimal performance across multimodal outputs. Integrating a new AI model—crucial for maintaining the platform's competitiveness—naturally became a complex engineering challenge, involving tedious server configuration and compatibility checks. In the early stages of the project, the lack of a unified experimental environment for quickly testing new alpha models or expanding the service architecture to meet creators' needs resulted in the Verse8 engineering team wasting a significant amount of time on model maintenance, diverting their focus from gameplay.

Verse8 CEO JC Kim shared, "The main bottleneck is the lack of a unified cloud infrastructure, which makes it impossible to integrate and manage a diverse portfolio of generative AI products. Integrating a single new model can even take a dedicated engineer several weeks to complete."

Verse 8's new solution: Empowering "Prompt-to-Play" with a one-stop infrastructure.

To address the issue of fragmented infrastructure, Verse8 migrated its entire AI and infrastructure stack to Google Cloud, leveraging Vertex AI to coordinate multi-model collaboration. In the new workflow, creators only need to input a set of prompts—for example, “Create a suspenseful visual novel set in a cyberpunk city.”

In Verse8's tool backend, the Gemini model, as the core of the logic, can generate storylines, dialogues, and underlying game code in real time on the virtual machine. Simultaneously, the system calls upon a dedicated model to build assets.

• Video: Veo generates cinematic opening and transition animations;
• Image: Imagen creates consistent character portraits and backgrounds;
• Audio: Lyria generates immersive soundtracks and sound effects.

Crucially, the Verse8 platform addresses the illusion problem commonly found in AI coding. If the generated code has bugs, the system will run the game in a sandbox environment, capture error logs, and report them to the large language model. Subsequently, the large language model can read the errors, correct the code itself, and automatically redeploy the game.

To ensure that this resource-intensive technical architecture can support daily access from 3 million users, Verse8 leverages Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to dynamically manage massive computing workloads, with particularly significant results.

Revolutionary workflow changes: reducing workflow time from weeks to days, accelerating productivity and unleashing creativity.

By migrating to a unified architecture, Verse8 completely changed the pace and possibilities of game development.

In the past, creating games with integrated assets required weeks of manual debugging; now, Verse8 creators can build complex multimodal games in two days, or even reduce this production time to just a few hours. This rapid shift from idea to finished product has directly boosted creator retention rates to over 40%.

The most significant achievement lies in the rapid expansion of the creator community. To date, the platform has empowered over 2,000 non-technical users to join this emerging group of AI game developers.

For example, teachers are using Verse8 to build historical adventure games and interactive math quizzes to better engage students in class.

By eliminating technological barriers, the Verse8 platform has produced over 5,000 AI-generated games, thus opening up new possibilities for users' imaginations. Looking ahead, the Verse8 team is experimenting with the next-generation Gemini model to further break down and eliminate the boundaries between game creators and players.

As Verse8 CEO JC Kim stated, "We are seeing a whole new wave of creativity—unconventional game experiences that traditional developers might never have imagined. We are empowering non-technical developers to create entirely new games that we have never seen before."

Regarding Verse8

Incubated by Planetarium Labs, Verse8 is an AI-powered gaming platform designed to enable anyone to create, play, and monetize interactive games using natural language prompts.