The debate about AI is slowly moving away from the question of whether AI should be used and towards a more nuanced one: how, when, and why generative AI could be used. While much of that conversation focuses on image generation and productivity, some creators are using AI to tackle something far bigger: building entire worlds. NUVAGAIA is one of those projects.
Created by Gerard Bisbal, NUVAGAIA is an ambitious sci-fi universe that blends solarpunk ideals with cosmic horror and spans podcasts, stories, artwork, videos, a growing wiki, and even interactive fiction. It's the sort of expansive transmedia project that, not so long ago, would have needed a team of writers, artists and producers to get off the ground. It would have cost millions of dollars, teams across the globe, and most likely have been bogged down in paperwork and creative wrangling; just take a look at Reflector Entertainment’s Unknown 9: Awakening, which, while fun and polished, was in hock to its wider media ambitions.
