Marbles AI

Teach an AI to cook.

Marbles AI is a free multiplayer cooking game where you teach a marble-shaped AI to make pizza, pasta, and anything else you can dream up - using AI that actually learns.

A Novel Game AI – Reinforcement Learning Game.

Simulation / Strategy / AI Game • Multiplayer • Android • iOS

Marbles AI® is a revolutionary multiplayer cooking simulation where you manage a restaurant and teach AI-driven characters—called Marbles—to cook and serve. Powered by cutting-edge, adaptive AI technology, your Marble learns on the fly, evolving its skills through your guidance.

Compete against other players’ restaurants in real time, using your Marble’s unique learning progress to attract and serve customers better than anyone else. This isn’t just any simulation – this is AI that grows with you, making every game fresh and dynamic.

Step into the future of gaming with an AI that learns by doing, adapts through interaction, and competes alongside you. More exciting levels and challenges coming soon.

Gameplay and Impressions

See it in action.

You play Marble's AI simply by telling your AI Marble what to do. By pointing at objects, you ask it to interact with them. The Marble will then follow you, observe the effects of the interaction and learn from it. From then on, it will be able to reproduce this interaction on its own if it is currently helpful.

With this simple control method, you can train and personalize your Marble's behavior to make it the next great chef. Because your Marble is controlled by an adaptive and real-time capable AI, it is able to learn quickly, recombine concepts and adapt to changing situations. Your Marble takes over the rather monotonous job of preparing meals for the customers of your Marble restaurant. Meanwhile, you can optimize the equipment and ingredients, find new and better recipes and upgrade your Marble.

You also have to prevail against the competition in multiplayer. Spy on your fellow players and learn their tricks, or simply try them out yourself to get first place in the restaurant competition.

The research behind it

Production of Marbles AI.

Marbles AI® has been in development since 2018. We build our AI on award-winning and promising basic research in the field of Artificial Intelligence and align it with the requirements of gamers.

The concept and vision of Marbles AI® are shaped by the teaching and research project “Mario AI” with which our founder was involved in research and teaching at the University of Tübingen for several years, and which gained international recognition in 2015 (see the video). We also incorporate his award-winning research in the field of neural networks and social intelligence as well as numerous other relevant cognitive science and psychological studies into the development of our AI.

Built with support from

Marbles AI and the jointly developed general game AI framework brAIn engine were developed with the help of the German Computer Games Grant of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection and awarded and funded by the Innovation Grant of the Excellence Initiative of the University of Tübingen. We are trying to do nothing less than create something completely new with Marbles AI®. There has never been a game for the masses that uses such an ambitious cognitive architecture to control its characters. Not without reason: the technical hurdles are a huge challenge that we at Quantum Gaming are taking on with the help of our supporters.