Bitmagic announced today that its productive AI-powered game development platform is now available for public access through a closed alpha program.
The platform allows everyone to be a game developer as it enables players to execute their ideas in 3D. By typing a description into a text prompt, they can offload the hard work to Bitmagic, which produces fully playable games based on words.
The Bitmagic platform is the world’s first system that allows the creation of playable games with a single prompt, the company said. I’ve seen demos of the platform in action and it’s magical how it quickly creates the game elements and they just ‘fall’ into place like a waterfall in a game scene.
Bitmagic creates a game concept, creates a background story, and creates an immersive 3D world around the story. It designs game mechanics and adds gameplay elements to the world, resulting in a fully replayable game that provides 15 minutes to 30 minutes of gameplay. The Bitmagic engine provides beautiful graphics, nature simulation with weather, animals and seasons, and full physics.
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Bitmagic is built on a vision that anyone can be a game developer. Every player has ideas about what kind of game they would like to create. Bitmagic allows game creation by describing the type of game the user wants to create. Games created by the platform look and play like professionally created products.
The creator can continue to edit the game by describing what changes or additions they want to make – it’s just like having a professional game designer sitting next to you and bringing your vision to life. These games are currently limited in scope and the available styles are limited to 3rd person-based, character-based games, but the range of features will grow with monthly updates over the next 12 months.
Jani Penttinen, CEO of Bitmagic, said in a statement: “There are over three billion players in the world, but all the games available today are made by a fairly small group of around 200,000 professional game developers, most of whom are white. . middle-aged men”.
He added, “Making games has always been difficult and because of the skills required, it has remained an art form for a select few. Bitmagic will democratize game development. Once we have millions of people creating games they want to play, we will have an amazing variety of games that have never been seen before. Bitmagic will do to game development what YouTube and Netflix have done to video production.”
The platform is now available for use at the address http://bitmagic.games. Initially access is limited but gradually new users are added. To get in the queue for access, creators will need to register on the Bitmagic Discord server.
The Bitmagic platform is currently available for Windows as a single-player experience. iOS and Android support will be added next year, along with multiplayer.
Bitmagic is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. It is owned by its founders and early stage investors. The team behind Bitmagic has been making games and game engines for the past 30 years.
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