Wombo - The AI Game Studio

Wombo is created with the help of Codex and Astra. It allows you to create named characters, animations, and sounds from text prompts. Generate aligned side, front and back references, then create effectively any animation sequence (e.g. idle, walking, fighting) with automatically saved PNG and Aseprite files. Image and video calls go through OpenRouter; Sound & SFX uses ElevenLabs directly from the server.

Character creation

Describe your character and generate aligned side, front and back reference views.

Attach an image for visual guidance and describe what to use from it, such as its art style or a specific character. Your text controls the subject and requested changes. Front and back views use the generated side view to keep the new character consistent.

Animation creation

Turn your character into an animation, choose the frames to include, and save spritesheets as PNG and Aseprite files.

Example game: After Light

After Light is a 2.5D interplanetary-cyberpunk game currently being built using Unity + Blender + Astra, with 2D graphics and sound assets created in Wombo.

Setup and run

Requires Node.js 20+ and ffmpeg on your PATH.

npm install
cp .env.example .env

In .env, set OPENROUTER_API_KEY for characters and animations, and ELEVENLABS_API_KEY for Sound & SFX. Each workflow only needs its own provider's key.

npm run dev

Open localhost:5173. Stop the app with Ctrl+C.

Projects and storage

Choose New Project or Open on startup. Projects live outside the repository in ~/.ai-game-studio/; set AI_GAME_STUDIO_HOME to use another location. Installation creates the storage directory.

<project>/
├── .project               # Project manifest
├── sprites/<character>/   # References and animations/<animation>/
└── music/<sound>/         # Sound settings and audio revisions

Generated assets save automatically. Save project, switching assets, and Close project persist drafts. Each asset's JSON manifest points to its current files; older generated revisions are retained.

Guides

• Create sprites and animations
• Create music and SFX
• AGENTS.md — architecture, implementation rules, and testing.