Jabali, the company, was founded in 2023 by Vatsal Bhardwaj, who has 20+ years of experience in the game industry and has worked in leading companies like Microsoft, Zynga, Storm8, Meta, AWS, and lastly Skillz Inc. Bhardwaj is also an advisor in BITKRAFT Ventures and an Angel Investor in the games industry.
Jabali, the game engine, promises to revolutionize the creation of 10+ genres of games, including Character Sims, Visual Novels, Interactive Stories, and Classic Arcade games. Using only text prompts, creators at any level can create and customize these games across narrative, environments, visuals, and NPCs.
“We are revolutionizing the future of game development by re-inventing tools, engines, and workflows from the ground up, powered by generative AI. Today’s release marks a significant milestone by offering anyone who loves games and desires to make them the chance to do so. And this is just the start!”
Vatsal Bhardwaj, founder and CEO of Jabali
Jabali is an end-to-end, customizable AI-native engine that empowers creators to interact with AI from concept to fully functional games. Users can generate character portraits, design choice options in interactive stories, or create game builds.
This powerful tool’s technology is purpose-built using a state-of-the-art software development workflow for video games and interactive experiences.
More highlights include:
- Create 10+ game genres with text prompts and no-code
- Create games 100x faster through simple prompting
- Develop intelligent characters, branching storylines, and multiple endings
- Endless opportunities for variations of arcade games to support creativity
- Rich manual editing features support endless creative expression
The company is onboarding through its Discord community. Once admitted, users can generate fully working games in under five minutes and share them with others. To get started, visit the company’s Discord page. The engine is free to use during the closed beta.
Jabali provides the perfect onramp for other game engines by interoperating and with existing commercial game engines and custom game engines. For more information on how to integrate, contact Jabali at: [email protected].
About Jabali
Founded in 2023 by a team of game developers, academics, researchers and engineers, Jabali is an emerging leader in the video game industry building an end-to-end, customizable AI-native engine that empowers creators to interact with AI from concept to fully functional games.
Arnav Jhala, a Professor of Computer Science at NC State University who specialized in AI and video games, joined Jabali shortly after the company was founded as an advisor and later as a co-founder.
Toufeeq Hussain, who has an exceptional blend of engineering + product + GTM, joined as the founding product leader. Formerly, he was a Firefox/Linux contributor, software engineer at Infosys, founding PM at Viddy, led game services at AWS, and an avid gamer.
