Onibi, the game studio developing the AI-powered open-world multiplayer RPG Tomo: Endless Blue, has closed a strategic funding round led by SeaX Ventures and Pix Capital. The investment will be used to accelerate the title towards a full commercial launch, support studio expansion across Southeast Asia, and fund preparations for an upcoming Alpha release on Kickstarter.
The announcement follows a strong start to the studio’s crowdfunding campaign: Onibi exceeded US$100,000 on Kickstarter within 60 hours of launch, signalling early commercial momentum for the project.
Founded by Benjamin Devienne, Onibi is building what it describes as a new generation of open-world multiplayer games in which proprietary AI models generate unique villages, cultures, non-player characters, dialogue, quests, and stories for each individual player. Tomo: Endless Blue combines that AI-driven world generation with physics-based voxel systems, scalable multiplayer infrastructure, and creator tools.
The studio draws its development team from some of the most commercially successful titles in the industry, including Fortnite, League of Legends, Baldur’s Gate 3, Fall Guys, Grand Theft Auto, and World of Warcraft. The team’s collective experience spans multiplayer systems, live-service games, world-building, player engagement, and scalable game-technology infrastructure.
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Beyond its game-play ambitions, Onibi is positioning Tomo: Endless Blue as the foundation for a user-generated content platform where players can build their own RPG experiences with AI-assisted tools. The studio’s long-term goal is to allow players to move from a simple prompt to playable content — creating villages, stories, quests, and shared worlds — while reducing the technical barriers that typically separate players from game creation.
“Tomo: Endless Blue is built around infinite replayability: a world that keeps surprising players long after their first adventure,” said Benjamin Devienne, Co-founder and Chief Executive of Onibi. “By combining proprietary AI models, procedural generation, multiplayer systems, and UGC tools, we want every island, village, quest, and player-created experience to feel different. The backing of SeaX Ventures and Pix Capital helps us push that technology further, grow the Kickstarter community, and accelerate our strategy in Asia.”
SeaX Ventures, which led the round, cited Onibi’s combination of production credentials and its approach to AI-native game development as central to its investment thesis. Dr. Kid Parchariyanon, Founder and Managing Partner of SeaX Ventures, said the studio represented a rare convergence of world-class execution experience and original thinking about how games are made.
“AI-native game development is one of the most consequential frontiers in the broader deep-tech wave, and the team’s track record — across some of the most successful multiplayer franchises ever shipped — is exactly the kind of foundation this category requires,” Dr. Parchariyanon said. “We are delighted to back Onibi as it brings Tomo: Endless Blue to a global community of players and creators, with Asia at the centre of that strategy.”
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