War Thunder and Enlisted studio Gaijin Entertainment has announced EdenSpark, a game creation tool that the company says will “let anyone make games for consoles and share them with the gaming community”.
According to a press release, EdenSpark will enter closed beta testing in November, and Gaijin is eyeing a full release sometime next year. The tool aims to give developers access to console development “without a registered company or costly legal paperwork”.
Despite its focus on console development, EdenSpark won’t launch with full console support; that will be added in fall next year, while the closed beta will give you the opportunity to access “a number of game prototypes”. You’ll also be able to “upload personal projects” during this time.
Of course, this being a modern piece of software, Gaijin has gone all-in on generative AI, and so you can expect a suite of AI assistant tools to help “complete newcomers” create games for the first time.
EdenSpark’s generative AI assistant will be able to create “art, sound, and gameplay logic” for you, and Gaijin even says it can “build worlds using plain prompts”. If you don’t want to bother with that side of things, you can still “dive deep into code” if you wish.
The idea behind EdenSpark is that you’ll retain full ownership over any game you make using the tool; you can either keep your creations within EdenSpark’s community or release them to the world, but either way, they’ll be entirely yours to do with as you please.
You can check out a trailer for EdenSpark right here. Honestly, I’m very much not sold on the slightly ghoulish AI voiceover; if it’s not AI, then whoever performed it is definitely aiming for that uncanny, flat tone, and I don’t like it either way. Still, here’s the trailer!
Like it or not, generative AI usage is on the rise in the gaming industry. During the most recent Steam Next Fest, more than 500 demos available on the platform disclosed their usage of gen AI, and there may well have been many more that didn’t, despite Valve’s policies.
Gaijin doesn’t seem to be accepting closed beta applications for EdenSpark yet, but if you want to keep up with the tool’s progress, you can visit the official website right here.
