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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Agenda

Create Playable Games by Chatting with AI - Tesana AI Live Demo (Presented by Tesana AI)

Johannes Vermandois  (Co-founder, CEO, Tesana AI)
Eric Heimer  (Co-founder, CTO, Tesana AI)
Location: Future Tech Stage, South Hall
Date: Thursday, March 12
Time: 11:50 am - 12:10 pm
Pass Type: Festival Pass, Game Changer Pass - Get your pass now!
Track: Game & Production Technology
Format: Power Talk
Vault Recording: Not Recorded
Tesana AI

Tesana introduces a new frontier in game creation: playable, AI-generated game worlds built directly from natural language. In this session, the Tessala team demonstrates how anyone can move from idea to playable experiences in minutes, generating worlds, mechanics, environments, characters, and systems through simple prompts.

Takeaway

Tesana's mission is to make it possible for anyone to make games. This talk explores how foundation game models enables anyone to explore, create, and actively shape playable experiences, not just consume them. Attendees will see live examples of Attendees will see live examples of dynamic world-building from prompts, AI-driven logic, and adaptive gameplay systems generated on the fly

Intended Audience

This presentation is for game developers, designers, indie founders, gamers and studio leads exploring AI game making and "vibe coding" games. No technical prerequisite knowledge is required, though familiarity with games, engines, scripting, or generative AI concepts is helpful.