Layer AI and Unity making game development more accessible and inspiring than ever before with a goal to unleash the creative potential of students around the world. Driven by a shared belief that talent knows no boundaries — whether geographical or economic — every aspiring game creator deserves the tools to help turn their dreams into digital realities.

Unveiling Layer AI: Your Gateway to Limitless Game Creation

Layer AI is revolutionizing game development with its intuitive AI-powered tools designed to breathe life into your game assets. Imagine having the power to effortlessly generate and refine unique images that perfectly align with your artistic vision, all while drastically boosting the quality, speed, and ease of designing your games. Now, students can embark on their creative journey with a FREE Layer AI Pro Plan for six months, exclusively available to them.

With the Layer AI Pro Plan, students will enjoy enhanced benefits, including more storage to house their imaginative creations and lightning-fast customization options that will supercharge their game development projects. To kickstart their game development adventure, students need to simply sign up for a Unity Student Plan and they’ll receive an email from Unity with a promo code to activate a six month Layer Pro Plan using their .edu email address.

These AI tools can help students expedite their workflows and more quickly bring their visions to life. Both Layer AI and Unity are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in tech, and see AI as a tool that can empower students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds, helping to unlock new skills and accelerate their game development journey. Diversity drives innovation, and we hope that offering Layer AI on top of a Unity Student Plan helps to better equip students with the in-demand skills they need for what will be tomorrow’s most needed jobs.

Layer Story

Layer was created on the ideology of quick and efficient evolution of artists and art production. After our founder, Mehmet Ecevit, sold Gram Games to Zynga in 2018, he was left with a deep understanding of both gamers and gaming companies and saw a huge need to improve the creative development process. Throughout his experience running a Gram Games, Mehmet realized that art creation at gaming companies is a tremendous bottleneck. In an effort to disrupt the creative process in the gaming industry, he developed the MVP of Layer in late 2022 with the goal of building a world-class, scalable, and fast gen- AI platform for game creators. Applying open source techniques to creative development, Layer Team has successfully created an offering that provides high performance, scalability, and a user-friendly generative AI solution for creating 2D game assets.

Game developers face many challenges when moving through the creative development process and typically face high costs during development and significant lag in evolution when moving from a concept to a finalized creative asset. Generative AI offers an innovative solution to both reducing costs and completely defining a new rhythm for creating assets. While there are many AI image generator solutions on the market, none are as robust as Layer in creating an end-to-end gaming asset creation solution. Other solutions on the market are not tailored specifically to game development, are too complex to maintain, or are simply not enterprise ready. Layer empowers artists from garage startups to industry giants to generate images based on their own art styles, allowing them to seamlessly iterate on these images through its premier AI-assisted canvas. Currently, Layer is the only generative AI solution entirely dedicated to game artists, resulting in a product that offers clear direction in style-consistent output quality, speedy generation, and an intuitive interface that’s committed to solving game artists’ challenges.

While Layer is focusing on perfecting 2D generation in games for mobile, then AAA studios, we are already looking ahead. In the future, Layer plans to launch its animations studio offering to support game artists in easily animating their generated characters. In an effort to attract different gaming companies’ verticals, we plan to launch a marketing studio to support an insights-driven creative ad generation solution. Once Layer has optimized the art of 2D creative asset generation, we will use this technology to tackle 3D model generation for AAA clients, PC, and console gaming companies with the understanding that each generated 3D model’s style will be consistent with the game’s unique art style.

Layer’s dedication to style-consistent output quality, seamless iteration that empowers artists, and its robust roadmap is revolutionizing the creative process and changing the tempo at which gaming assets are developed. With proven success with top tier clients and plans to expand into animations, marketing studios, and 3D model generation, Layer is set to reshape the future of game development and more.