At Genies we are continuously evolving our developer ecosystem around our avatar technology. Our live Genies Avatar SDK provides a robust customization solution for Unity developers, enabling fully customizable avatars out of the box, persistent player identities across games, and the ability to reward or sell clothing and accessories through gameplay systems to drive engagement and monetization.

Building on this foundation, we recently introduced the Genies Art Forge SDK, which lets developers create high-quality, visually consistent wearables, with plans to expand to new character styles and environment props. Our upcoming Smart Avatar SDK will add intelligence and autonomy to NPCs and player characters, allowing them to respond dynamically to gameplay scenarios without manual setup, making interactions feel more natural and alive.

In this blog, we will share more about these upcoming tools and introduce our developer ecosystem public roadmap, where you can see planned features, provide feedback, and upvote the features and enhancements that matter most to your games. Together, these tools are designed to help you bring characters and their worlds to life while maintaining visual consistency and seamless gameplay integration.

Genies Art Forge SDK

The Genies Art Forge SDK is our tool for creating high-quality, visually consistent game assets directly in Unity. It is designed to save developers time while ensuring professional, game-ready results. The SDK addresses two major challenges that developers often face with art generation tools today. First, maintaining consistent style across characters, clothing, and props. Second, ensuring assets are truly game-ready with clean topology, LODs, and performance-aware workflows that integrate seamlessly into real-time projects.

The SDK is structured around three core modules that will expand over time: wearables, avatars, and environment props. Each module leverages the same underlying framework to ensure style consistency and game-ready quality across all assets.

The first module, wearables, is now live and accessible via the Unity Asset Store, ready for developers to integrate into their projects. This module allows you to generate clothing assets that match your characters’ style. Wearables are compatible with Genies Avatars out of the box, with automatic rigging and fitting included, so you do not need to manually adjust them for your characters. All generated assets include LODs and optimized topology, making them ready for immediate use in Unity projects.

Future modules will expand the SDK’s capabilities:

• Avatar module: We understand that the current Genies Avatars style will fit many games but not all. The avatar module will allow you to design custom characters that are automatically rigged and support different art styles. New characters will be fully compatible with the existing customization SDK and can be paired with wearables and other assets from Art Forge.

• Environment props module: Create and populate worlds with props and objects that match the visual style of your characters. This ensures that environments, characters, and assets are visually cohesive, saving development time and improving immersion.

The Genies Art Forge SDK supports developers with limited art resources as well as artists refining content, enabling rewards, in-game monetization, or faster iteration across your project

Unlock for developers: Generate high quality, visually consistent game assets in minutes, saving development time while integrating seamlessly into Unity projects.

Unlock for players: Experience avatars and worlds with cohesive visual style, polished assets, and engaging environments.

Below is a video demonstrating the different modules of the Genies Art Forge SDK in action. This preview showcases an extension of the tool that is already live, illustrating upcoming capabilities that will continue to evolve.

Smart Avatar SDK

The Smart Avatar SDK is focused on helping developers bring characters to life beyond visuals and customization. While the Genies Avatar SDK provides the foundation for creating and customizing characters, the Smart Avatar SDK builds on top of that foundation by giving avatars awareness, context, and autonomy inside the game.

The SDK enables characters to understand the world they exist in, the lore of your game, and the role they play within it. This applies to both player characters and NPCs, allowing avatars to behave in a more expressive and believable way during gameplay and social interactions.

Key benefits of the Smart Avatar Systems SDK:

• Intent-driven behavior: Instead of configuring complex animation graphs and behavior trees for every interaction, animations are driven by the character’s responses. Reactions to players, narrative events, or interactions automatically trigger body and facial animations.

• Reduced setup overhead: Developers maintain control over tone, personality, and constraints without manually wiring every behavior. Smart avatars are reusable across projects, making it easier to iterate and scale character-driven gameplay.

• Seamless integration: The SDK works directly with the existing Genies avatars and the broader ecosystem. New avatars and assets introduced via Genies Art Forge will also be compatible with the same smart systems.

Unlock for developers: Reduce engineering and animation overhead while creating characters that behave intelligently and adaptively.
Unlock for players: Interact with characters that feel alive, responsive, and context-aware, enhancing immersion and gameplay.

Below is a video demonstrating the Smart Avatar Systems SDK in action. The video shows an early demonstration of the tool, which will continue to be refined before its official release.

Check Out Our Developer Ecosystem Public Roadmap

At Genies, we want to build tools that developers actually need. That is why we are making our developer roadmap public. You will be able to see, at a glance, what we are working on and how our ecosystem is evolving.

The roadmap is structured around three states: under consideration, planned, and released. This lets you understand not only what’s coming next, but also which ideas we are evaluating and prioritizing for future development.

To help visualize progress, you’ll find a screen capture of the roadmap below. For the most up-to-date view of planned updates and ongoing initiatives across our SDKs, check the live roadmap.

Share Your Feedback and Shape the Roadmap

We are also introducing interactive features so that you can have a voice in shaping the tools and SDKs you use. You can upvote features you find most important directly on the roadmap. This feedback will help our team prioritize what to build next and ensure that the Genies ecosystem evolves in ways that truly benefit developers.

If you have new ideas or want to discuss feature requests in detail, you can join our Discord community. We are opening a dedicated feature-request channel in our Discord, where you can propose new features, improvements, or workflows. Our team will monitor the channel regularly and actively engage with suggestions from developers.

This approach ensures transparency and gives developers direct influence over the evolution of the Genies SDK ecosystem. By combining a public roadmap with community engagement, we hope to create a cycle where feedback directly informs development, making the tools more powerful, relevant, and aligned with the needs of creators and developers.