Key results
The company
Verse8
verse8.ioUGC gaming platform for creating, sharing, and playing community-made games.
Result highlights
- Game creation time cut from weeks to <2 days for users
- >40% creator retention rate via rapid AI tools
The story
A gaming startup incubated by Planetarium Labs that enables non-technical users to create interactive visual novels and RPGs using natural language prompts.
Integrating a single new AI model took dedicated engineers several weeks due to a disjointed infrastructure requiring manual API stitching. This technical debt forced the team to burn cycles on server configuration rather than developing gameplay features.
The platform consolidated its AI stack on Vertex AI to orchestrate Gemini for game logic alongside specialized models like Veo and Imagen for asset generation. A self-correcting workflow runs generated code in a sandbox, captures error logs, and feeds them back to the LLM for automatic debugging. Google Kubernetes Engine dynamically manages the compute resources to serve these multi-modal experiences at scale.
Quotes
“The bottleneck was a lack of unified cloud infrastructure capable of integrating and managing a diverse portfolio of frontier generative AI products. Integrating a single new model took dedicated engineers several weeks.”