Stealth Mode
Machine learning,
forged into gameplay.
An independent studio exploring what games become when generative AI stops being a tool for making them and becomes the medium itself. We will have more to say when there is something worth showing.
Est. 2026 · Irvine, California
The Mission
Generative AI did not just change how games get made. It changed what a game can be.
For forty years, play has been authored in advance — every rule, every line, every branch written down before anyone touched it. Learned models change that. Worlds can respond, systems can improvise, characters can be genuinely unscripted. We are not just making games; we are redefining how systems and players interact.
New experiences
Moments no designer could author by hand, because the model composes them in response to the person playing — not from a branch written years earlier.
New systems
Game systems built as trained models rather than fixed rule sets, able to learn a player's habits and answer them in ways nobody scripted.
New frontiers
The parts of the medium that generative models have only just put within reach, and the research and tooling required to get there at all.
The Studio
Built by someone who has shipped game ML systems at scale.
Tier 9 Games is founded and funded by a machine learning and data science veteran whose past leadership work spans some of the largest studios in the industry.
- Blizzard
- Electronic Arts
- Riot Games
- Tencent
That experience informs the work; it is not the point of it. What we build next has to stand on its own.