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Fortune
Allie Garfinkle

Sequoia-backed Astrocade raises $56 million to let everyone build games

(Credit: Courtesy of Astrocade)

I’ve been playing this online dinosaur game called Apex Predator. 

It works much as you’d expect: You start off as a small, feathery compsognathus, and work your way up to velociraptor status (and beyond) by, well, being the apex predator. I know it sounds gruesome, but it actually evokes “Pacman with dinosaurs” and is even rather cute. It was also built through AI—with natural language prompting—by a creator called “nuvu” on a website called Astrocade, where there are thousands of games created by AI-fueled text prompts. 

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