Astrocade lets people build playable games through text prompts, automating the generation of art, animation, music, sound, and gameplay mechanics without requiring traditional coding or game-design skills. Brothers Ali and Amir Sadeghian, both PhDs, along with AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, founded the company in Los Altos in 2022 after Ali's work at Google Research convinced them AI would change how games get made.
Users describe a game concept in natural language, and Astrocade's AI agents translate that into an interactive, playable world, including custom mechanics rather than static art assets alone. The platform has grown to roughly five million monthly active users generating about 140 million game plays a month across more than 75,000 creator-built games from 80 countries, backed by $56 million in funding including a Series B led by Sequoia Capital.
Hobbyist creators, streamers, and communities wanting to build and share playable games without a development team are the primary users. The free tier covers game creation, the visual editor, and community publishing, with expanded paid features available on request rather than through published pricing.
