Summary

  • Indie game development studio Welevel announced it had raised $5.7m in series A funding to transform procedural game development using AI.
  • The round was led by Bitkraft Ventures, and will be used to expand the team and its innovative AI tools that streamline game development and create dynamic personalised gameplay.
  • CEO Christian Heimerl said the studio was driven by passion not monetisation, and its AI technology innovations include world-building, NPC behavior and quest generation through algorithms to allow adaptive storytelling.
  • The studio is currently working on a triple-A sandbox survival game which uses the technology to create a living, breathing world which adapts to player actions, remembering the context of actions and assisting players in achieving their goals.
  • It plans to expand into user-generated content and other genres in the future.

By Dean Takahashi

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