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Jul 2024Ramen VR ceased new content development for Zenith while saying the servers would continue running for the foreseeable future.
SourceRamen VR is transforming game development with advanced XR + AI tools.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Ramen VR is a San Francisco-based game development studio turned AI/XR tooling company. It originally built Zenith: The Last City and now focuses on Aura, an editor-native AI assistant for Unreal Engine and Unity that helps professional game teams generate code, assets, and workflows faster.
Primary product
Aura
Founded
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI-powered game development tools
Offices
San Francisco, CA 94114 (HQ)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Business model
tiered SaaS subscription
B2B developer tooling
game-engine plugin
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Director of Operations
Head of Art
Lead Environment Artist
Founders
Co-founder / Former CTO
Work & culture
Mission-driven and high-ownership, with public values centered on building a championship team, demanding greatness, practicing candor, staying present, and focusing on creativity and collaboration.
Compensation
Publicly advertises competitive salaries, outsized equity, and industry-leading health benefits; no public salary bands were found.
Benefits
competitive salaries
outsized equity
industry-leading health benefits
Product & market
Pricing
Tiered subscription pricing for Aura, with Indie, Pro, and Ultimate plans and a free trial; unlimited usage is available in Auto Mode within plan limits.
Differentiators
- —native inside Unreal Engine and Unity
- —multi-agent assistant rather than a single general chatbot
- —project-aware and asset-aware workflows
- —generates Blueprints, C#, C++, and 3D assets
- —verification agent that can test in-editor
- —command-line and shell-script access
- —built for professional studios and production workflows
- —supports both major game engines under one product
Technology
Unreal Engine
Unity
Python
OpenAI Whisper
OpenAI GPT-4o
OpenAI TTS-1
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3
SentenceTransformer
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
AccelByte
Blueprints
C#
C++
Customers
professional game developers
professional game studios
enterprise users
design partners
indie teams
Competitors
GitHub Copilot
Cursor
ChatGPT / Claude Code
general-purpose AI coding assistants
AI game-development assistants
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Signals & risks
Layoff
Mar 2025An outside report said Ramen VR laid off an undisclosed number of employees; the report cited a LinkedIn post from a laid-off employee.
SourceAcquisition
Mar 2026Ramen acquired Coplay to make Aura the first AI assistant spanning both Unity and Unreal Engine.
SourceAcquisition
Jun 2026Ramen acquired Flopperam to expand Aura's Unreal Engine capabilities.
SourceLatest news
GamesBeat · Jun 2026
Covers Aura 15.0, new functionality, and the acquisition of Flopperam; notes over 30,000 developers have used Ramen's AI assistance and that the company is expanding its multi-agent game-dev tooling.
Business Wire · Jun 2026
Official release announcing Aura 15.0, new usage tiers, unlimited Auto Mode, and the acquisition of Flopperam.
Ramen VR · Mar 2026
Official acquisition announcement for Coplay, expanding Aura across Unity and Unreal workflows.
Ramen Bytes · Oct 2024
Explains the company’s shift from Zenith-first thinking toward broader XR and AI development tools, including voice-controlled scene editing experiments.
UploadVR · Jul 2024
Reports that Ramen VR stopped new content development for Zenith while keeping servers running for the foreseeable future.
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