Infinite Canvas raises $6M in funding, launches AI-powered Discord game
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Infinite Canvas announced today that it has raised $6 million in its latest round of funding. The studio, which promotes and enables user-generated content (UGC) on platforms such as Roblox, Fortnite and others, has its eyes on new uses of AI in the space. The company also recently launched a new AI-powered game on Discord called CreatureCraft, which already has over 100,000 users.
Bitkraft led the round, with HBSE, Warner Music Group, J Ventures and existing investors Lightshed, Day One Ventures, Emerson Collective, and Crossbeam participating. Infinite Canvas plans to use its funding to further promote CreatureCraft, along with its other games. The idle RPG uses generative AI to create unique cards designed by players that can be used in battles and to earn in-game currency.
Infinite Canvas co-founders Tal Shachar and Sebastian Park spoke with GamesBeat about Infinite Canvas’s plans for the future and how they plan to integrate generative AI. Shachar said, “What’s been really exciting for us is, with recent history, we started seeing and believing that GenAI was going to be a revolutionary technology that was going to enable us to supercharge our efforts to bridge the gap between players and developers — to effectively fulfill our mission to turn every player into a creator.”
Park added, “We raised $6 million to basically push the envelope, especially around the creator-consumer ratio — making sure that more consumers are becoming creators… When we saw the tools coming out that empower players such as GenAI, we realized that it could be one-to-one. Anyone who’s playing these games could also be a creator.”
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