Partnerships · Updated June 2026
Bitmagic in education: from one high-school classroom to ASU.
Bitmagic is the first AI-first game engine adopted by a major US university for credit-bearing coursework — and it has already been used by real high-school students to ship real, playable games. Here are the receipts.
Headline partnership · Announced March 2026
Arizona State University
The world's first AI-first game development curriculum at a major research university.
In March 2026, Arizona State University and Bitmagic announced a partnership to launch a university-level game development curriculum built natively on an AI-first game engine. The course takes students from zero coding background through to a fully functional, distribution-ready video game using Bitmagic's AI tools for asset generation, level design, and code optimization. Students focus on creative problem-solving, narrative design and player experience — the AI handles the engineering load.
The program is hosted at the Endless Games & Learning Lab at ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Following successful execution at ASU, both organizations plan to expand the curriculum globally.
"BitMagic has stood out as one of the most compelling technologies we've encountered in its ability to generate meaningful game experiences from prompts." — Mark Ollila, Founding Director, Endless Games & Learning Lab at ASU
"This is the way games are made in the future — removing traditional technical barriers, allowing students to focus immediately on their creative vision." — Jani Penttinen, Co-Founder & CEO, Bitmagic
High-school cohort · May–June 2025
Highland High School
Real teenagers, no engineering background, eight shipped games.
Highland High School ran a two-month Bitmagic AI Game Dev Cohort in partnership with educational program Cleverlike. 15 students enrolled, 12 actively used the platform, 8 shipped finished, playable games — all still live and embedded on the homepage of this site.
Among the games shipped: a Formula 1 racer with realistic drafting physics, a vertical-parkour climbing game called Skyline Rise, a dark-forest quest-and-crafting game called Moonlight Harvest, a space obstacle course with cinematic cutscenes, and a real-time repair-drone game with collapsing buildings. All built by high-schoolers from natural-language prompts.
Workforce education partner
Cleverlike
CTE and community-college programs that put Bitmagic in front of paid student developers.
Cleverlike runs an AI-Forward Game Design workforce-education program where Career & Technical Education students and community-college learners get 12 hours of training, exclusive Bitmagic developer access, and 20 hours of paid work ($500) developing games on the Bitmagic platform. The program is positioned to define gaming's future via direct student contribution.
Bitmagic is featured prominently in the curriculum: "Meet the founder of Bitmagic, a game industry veteran that is shaping the future of games with the latest AI innovations."
Roadmap
What's next
Bitmagic's stated plan post-ASU is to expand the AI-assisted game-development curriculum to universities globally, establishing an international standard for AI-assisted creative technology education. The combination of (1) a credentialed research-university curriculum, (2) a working high-school cohort proof point, and (3) a paid workforce-education partner positions Bitmagic as the practical bridge between AI tooling and game-design education at every level.
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